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The Wall

 

film (3m06s)

 

  The artist tried to explore creating possibilities and essential materials functions. For the artist, walls functions are that it forms a barrier or conservation. The artist is not good at social skills, so he regards that everyone has an invisible conserving barrier with other peoples. It also can be regarded as an invisible wall. Talking, roaring, laughing, screaming, and fighting is not only communication but also can be regarded as a kind of language. 

  Throwing clay becomes a primary language in this video. When the artist was around ten years old, he was childish, naive, and bored to throw wet toilet papers on opposite neighbor’s windows. That event could be the artist first forward to communicate with other people. In Taiwan, protesters love to use eggs, red paint to show their language. A TV drama shows that someone used cattle shit to throw for expressing the dissatisfied sentiment, so the artist regarded that the clay shape and colour are similar to cattle shit. The artist has regularly followed the current news and previous history, so he believes that although the protesting languages are not heard by government quickly, citizens have to use their essential powers to gain more and more rights. However, the artist also considers that when those protesters will be a member of the government officers and be poor managers that the wall becomes a meaningless object for everyone. People have not known where they are standing at the side of the wall. When the wall would be a collapse, it reveals that the human relationship will not have the underlying truth, although people tried to use regulations or contain each other tense relations. 

  It would push more interesting and imaginary spaces for audiences when videos show by without sounds or images. The wall, the artist decided to make a section of without images which it plays throwing clay sounds on black background. That would be possible to cause audiences image what is happening behind the black background. On 2015, a military event was the focus of many rational people that a young soldier was death in the camp, whereas the current military wanted to conceal the truth and showed the background video. It reveals the concealing culture has happened for a long time. Fortunately, after this event, military law and cultures were reviewed. 

  

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