HSIEH x TSOU
Hsieh Yu-Ciao, the multi-media artist who is outraged by the public attitude
Tsou Tsai-Lin, the friend working in the finance
Since elementary school, Hsieh and Tsou are close friends. They talk about personal life, about relationships, but never about art. Hsieh feels awkward to share her art with friends, and Tsou finds visual language difficult to understand.
Tsou, was able to discern another side of Hsieh through viewing her art. As both a friend and an artist, the two aspects of Hsieh are dedicated to the common pursuit--"peace and mindfulness."
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Hsieh Yu-Ciao, Paradise of Chaos II: Virus Creation, Three channel video, installation, 00:05:19/00:04:33/00:05:43, Color sound film, 2022
Paradise of Chaos II:
VIRUS CREATION
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality spaces between people seem to be isolated; yet, in fact, people overlap and communicate more intensely and explosively in the virtual world. As we can see, the endless windows opened, the massive amount of messages sent, and more-than-ever social media usage. From an evolutionary point of view, poultries are raised under high pressure, crowded, closed, and unnatural conditions, resulting in a higher likelihood of generating mutated viruses. Compared to human society, digital media is like a mental virus. The virus spreads in the heads of collective humans and virtual farms. Such physical and psychological transmission has bred us to become the hybrid new life in the new era. (Text by Hsieh Yu-Ciao; Translated by Jennifer Chen)
1. The Origin
2. Spread and Infection
3. Freedom
"CONVERSATIONS" BETWEEN HSIEH AND TSOU
"In daily life, she tends to do her best to help everyone he cares about... However, in her works, they show a sense of aggressiveness. What I genuinely believe is that Hsieh uses art as a way to express ‘another side of her.’" - Tsou Tsai-Lin
MOTIVATED BY ANGER:
SOCIETY, MEDIA, PEOPLE
HSIEH: "From the beginning, I have been outraged at the public's attitude. The public is too conformed to the norms as if everyone has been imprisoned...I believe this phenomenon comes from the brainwashing of the media. This has made me an angry young person."
TSOU: "Hsieh has always been devoted to the pursuit of peace and mindfulness. I know she values inner stability to an extent. Based on this, I can understand what she wants to talk about among media as she feels annoyed by people's unstable mindset and collective stupidity."
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CHAOTIC PARADISE:
THE DAZZLING PERCEPTION
TSOU: “I felt overwhelmed, not knowing which channel to look at." (Later, she learned the order from Hsieh.) "I had a strong reliance on words, either narration or caption, to understand what has been told in the piece."
HSIEH: "There is no fixed viewing sequence for the work. I believe that after the work is delivered to the audience, it lives its independent life." "My pursuit of the intertextuality of words and images in art is influenced by essay film...They should co-exist, with specific meaning generated together.”
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THE THIRD SCREEN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN BY "FREEDOM"?
TSOU: "What I recognized from the third channel is that, the person dressed in green screen is participating in the real-life environment, instead of staying in the digital realm...It is metaphoric to the fact that we can still contact reality even in the digital era."
HSIEH: "In the context of media production, the third screen portrays the green person's return to reality and their interaction with it, where reality serves as the background. The underlying question is: how could we find a way out of such a world manipulated by digital media? Or, how could we coexist with it?"
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EXPECTATIONS?
INTERPRETATIONS?
HSIEH: "The three-channel video is like three short proses. Despite the massive amount of elements involved in each film, every film can be concentrated into one sentence. I hope the general public can grasp the main concepts. To go further for deeper interpretation or not, it’s totally up to them."
TSOU: "Every kind of media is crossed out under Hsieh’s recognition. It did not consider self-media as a form that applies expertise and is devoted to informing news to the public. Therefore, as I get the cynical of her toward media, her perspective does not really affect my overall view of the media."
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