Installation
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Hermit Crab Project
Photograph 66 x 88 cm The One China policy and Taiwanese independence statements are written onto shells of hermit crabs and the hermit crabs would change from one shell to another. The work was conceived for the exhibition 7 Ideas in 7 Days as part of a series of ephemeral installations at the construction site…
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Grafting Project
Installation Dimensions Variable Last spring, I happened to walk into a grandfather and a father at their family owned orange grove on a rainy day when they were to fixing their roof. Their farm is located at a mountain just outside of Taipei, where I grew up. The father told me that he was raised…
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Lotus Mantra I
Installation with black ink on fresh lotus flowers, roots, and seeds Dimensions variable Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, Singapore Commissioned by Singapore Biennale For the occasion of the inaugural Sinagpore Biennale: Belief in 2006, I was invited to create a project at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, a popular local Buddhist temple.…
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Lotus Mantra II
Installation with black ink on fresh lotus flowers, roots, and seeds Dimensions variable Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, Singapore Commissioned by Singapore Biennale For the occasion of the inaugural Sinagpore Biennale: Belief in 2006, I was invited to create a project at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple, a popular local Buddhist temple.…
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Tofu Mantra
Installation of black ink on fresh tofu Dimensions variable Commissioned by Singapore Biennale For the occasion of the inaugural Sinagpore Biennale in 2006, Tsai was invited to create a project in the former military camp of Tanglin. During the evening of the vernissage, the artist performed the writing of the Heart Sutra in Chinese calligraphy…
