Projects for Virtual Archive : Chien-Hsing Wu’s Work

• Main Authors: Chien-Hsing Wu, 吳建興
• Other Authors: Hong-John Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8sv6bz

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 美術學系碩士班創作組 === 105 === My works are motivated by self-exploration. By creative methods which reform personal empirical memory, I convert my curiosity about time and memory into a medium that transforms life experiences. Projects that I''ve worked on since 2009 have been a self-searching journey. "Get Dolled Up" is an exploration of identity through the transformation of gender. For the series "Family Memories", "Black Hand","Iron Sky", I returned to my father''s auto repair factory in my hometown, Nantou, Puli,to seek for old memories of the family industry, and to further reflect onreinterpretation and transformation. By using traditional repairing techniques to transform scrapped vehicles into a sofa, I explore the possibility of continuing and improving the industry. In "Iron Tree", agricultural tools handed down in the family were reassembled and embedded in wood to convey the vitality of the traditional family. In these works, I use a lot of "domestic objects" to inscribe the memories of my own family. When these objects are sequentially spread out, we will discover that they,in fact, interweave the histories of the average middle-class family in the context ofTaiwan''s modernization. "The Endless Ties of Love" was a solo exhibition project that took place at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Apart from extending the discussions and concerns in my projects between 2011 and 2016, it was also a process of converting one''s rite of passage into an object for viewing, and an attempt to transform individual relationships into an aesthetic form, addressing the significance of the solo exhibition as a medium for self-expression. It was an endeavor to see the first solo exhibition as not only a retrospective, representation or re-contextualization, but also as part of life, and to draw more life experiences through the facilitation of the museum''s public mechanism. The publication will concentrate on the works in between 2011 to 2016, ruminating on keywords such as self-observation / family / memory / recovery / recycle / everyday objects / ritual and others. In order to instigate possible discussions and dialogues between the individual and history, it is an attempt to extract a context regarding the self and the intertwined relationship with the era and environmental change through creative practice.