Charwei Tsai
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The Goddess & The Monk Series
The Goddess & The Monk Series 2018 Watercolor & ink on rice paper The Goddess is a series of drawings of trees, on which excerpts were written from the chapter in Vimalakirti Sutra where a sex change and a debate on gender equality take place between a monk and a goddess. This is the first…
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Root of Desire
Root of Desire 2018 HD video, color with sound, 7 minutes 8 seconds Commissioned by UCLA Confucius Institute for Dunhuang Projected, China Onscreen Biennial Mañjuśrī: What is the root of desire and attachment? Vimalakīrti: Unreal construction is the root of desire. Mañjuśrī: What is the root of unreal construction? Vimalakīrti: False concept is its root.…
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Bulaubulau
Charwei Tsai: Bulaubulau Solo exhibition Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), Manchester, UK 12 October 2018 ~ 20 January 2019 ‘Bulaubulau’ takes its name from an aboriginal village in Yilan, Taiwan. For the past decade, this community has united modern practices of self-sustainability with the preservation of aboriginal tradition. A subject of Tsai’s most recent…
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Bulaubulau
Bulaubulau — A Study 2018 HD video with sound & color, 12’38” Sponsored by Live Forever Art Foundation Special Thanks to Bulaubulau Aboriginal Village, Yilan, Taiwan One of my uncle’s closest friends, who was a roommate in college, is a well known aboriginal singer and activist in Taiwan. Through their friendship, while my uncle was…
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Tree Mantra
Tree Mantra, 2018 Performance Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre, London, UK In an in-situ intervention and live performance, presented by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), artist Charwei Tsai will inscribe in Chinese calligraphy a Buddhist text on the trunk of a local tree. The public is invited to witness the writing process and to…
