Blue Sun is a performance with 16mm film, sound, and live painting. It alludes to three disastrous mining accidents that took place in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1984. The performance weaves together several threads. Thread 1: In novelist Tong Wei-Ger’s short story about the village nearby the mining area, the narrator describes the “blue sun” amid a series of strange perception. I want to adopt and transform this literary metaphor into a way of remembering and reflection on the past catastrophes. Thread 2: The residents close to the Northern mining area suddenly attracted a few attention because the new Taiwanese president had lived there in his childhood, and his father was a victim of one of the 1984 accidents. Nowadays, there are still people living on the ground where the disasters had happened, while the traces of history have largely been invisible. Thread 3: Hong Rui-Lin (1912-1996) was an artist and miner who worked underground while recording miners’ life through paintings and drawings. Referring to Hong’s act of drawing as witness of the mining scenes, I want to translate this act into a time traveling in the past through performance.
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Part of the Member Residency Program 2024
Run Time: 25min
Year of production: 2024
Country of production: The Netherlands
Presentation Format: Performance
Color: Yes
Sound: Yes
