It's a long story

It’s a Long Story is a durational live painting performance. It takes audiences into a more philosophical and poetic consideration of subjectivity, temporality and alternative narratives. In the performance, I quote text from the German novel The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, often mentioned when discussing the genealogy of “alternative truths,” in which a baron tells his alluring adventures to people, always balancing on a tightrope between unreality and reality. 

 

I am intrigued by the potential interrelationship between all the dominant languages in Taiwan. The dominant language has swapped between Japanese and Mandarin during different political regimes. Through playing with these disparate languages, I attempt to make the audience lost in the spaces left by the process of translation.

 

It’s a Long Story suggests that, however improbable, most people would still choose to believe unreal narratives over real ones, speculation over fact, as the overload of media has destroyed a sense of a shared public reality. I paint a mural that after reaching completion over the course of several days, is slowly deconstructed again, leaving only traces on a blank wall and a video as proof of an artwork that momentarily existed.