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Proxy of Heaven

Proxy of Heaven

B&W & Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
2015
duration /
7'31

Wandering through and documenting different religious spaces when traveling, then through editing, these half sacred and half site-seeing experiences have been collaged to a passage to another heterogeneous space. Throughout the corridors and doors, The statues of saints and dolls gaze into the after world without the existence of humans, silence in trance. And it is the voice of prayers bringing me back to the mundane world.

在旅遊途中遊走在不同的宗教空間並拍下,透過剪接,我將這些半神聖半觀光的影像拼湊成通往另一個異質的神聖空間的路徑。在一道又一道的門與廊間,聖像與人偶凝視著死後的世界,無聲而恍惚。而當信眾對現世的祈求聲浮現,我又被帶回世俗的世界。

about the artist /

Tzu-An Wu works between experimental film and its expansions. He makes collages with analogue films, through mixing heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of (cinematic) narratives and the selves.

He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan). Exhibitions include Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. He also does programming of experimental cinema.

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