HSU Che-Yu
許哲瑜
City Strays and Wild Horses
Zoo Hypothesis: lecture performance
Co-production by Theater der Welt & Taipei Performing Arts Center
lecture performance
Zoo Hypothesis
Blank Photograph
2022
Gray Room
VR360 Installation
16'06''
Inspired by the artist's ailment and medical examination, he contemplates the construction of intimate memories, from bodily and spatial perceptions to neuroscientific imagination in this VR project.
It begins with a memory from Hsu Che-Yu's childhood: waking up in the middle of his sleep and finding himself sitting outside the house. It felt like everything became displaced. Recent two years, Hsu has been bothered by unusual headaches. After medical examinations, he was diagnosed with Diplopia, the so-called double vision, which was induced by the nervous system. In modern medical research, almost all perceptions and emotions can be measured in Neuroscience; they are material components of the neuro system. Without any metaphysical understanding of emotion and spirit, the concept of the soul is thus challenged.
The Making of Crime Scenes
Rabbit 314
7'17''
2020
This work is a cooperation with the long-time collaborator, scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin. The death of a laboratory rabbit initial this project. A glove puppetry performer with the laboratory rabbit's dead body in hand reenacts the movements- imagined by humans- of rabbits.
The Unusual Death of a Mallard
Video Installation
16'45''
2020
This work is a cooperation with the long-time collaborator, scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin.
The inspiration comes from Hsu Che-Yu's family memory. Hsu's grandma served in an animal laboratory for 30 years. Due to the particularity of her job, grandma had to dissect living animals for observation and experiments. Sometimes, she would take the laboratory animals home, which later became his father's childhood playmates. Hsu Che-Yu attempt to probe how the body/life is taken as a part of the body of knowledge relying on real bodies and models, thus further exploring the relationship between death and digital stimulation technology.
Salute
Silk screen printing
2020
Single Copy
Video Installation, Glass fiber
21'17''
2019
This work is a cooperation with the long-time collaborator, scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin.
Hsu Che-Yu produce a digital-scan model and fiberglass cast of the body of the first Taiwanese conjoined twins. Through this process, Hsu attempts to explore the workings of biopolitics and the functioning of one’s memory.
The first conjoined twins underwent separation surgery in 1979 and the whole procedure was broadcast on TV. During that period, Taiwan was under martial law. In this way, this surgery was often interpreted as a metaphor for the relationship between Taiwan and China.
Back in 1979, in order to prepare for the separation surgery, the hospital invited an artist to make a cast of the conjoined twins. The attempt to make a cast was however unsuccessful, since it was difficult to control the babies during the moulding process.
In this project Single Copy, Hsu Che-Yu has re-casted the body of the now 43-year old Chang Chung-I, and also use 3D scanning technology to archive his body. The data from the archive are then used as sources for capturing memories from Chang’s earlier life. When Chang was 21 years old, he played a role in the movie, Falling Up Waking Down, portraying a teashop owner whose shop was inside a converted old bus. About two decades later, Chang has repeatedly thought about what it would be like to run that old bus-converted teashop. In real life, Chang is married with two kids, and this artwork overlaps his present life with the fictional setting.
Lacuna
Video
40'31''
2018
This work is a cooperation with the long-time collaborator, scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin.
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