Aerofuture (2023)
Au Sow Yee X Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)
comissioned by New Taipei City Art Museum
Originated from If, a Family Trip series, a collaborative project by Chen Yow-Ruu and Au Sow Yee in 2020. In Aerofuture man-beast cyborg embarked on a dream-like journey to the moon. Since the Cold War in the 1960s to present time, the moon is still a place for competition of power. From satellites such as Sputnik to Apollo, and perhaps India's Vikram in 2023. In Aerofuture, a big band composed of mutants of bats, crocodiles, and wild boars, generated a time traveling conversation with Jim Thompson, the Thai silk tycoon who disappeared in the Moonlight Villa on Cameron Highlands in 1967. Aerofuture integrates an imaginary collection of aero archives, while interweaving a retro-sci fi space-time full with secret codes and ruptures of time, unveiling resonances and ghosts of cold war power struggle, which still shrouded our society until today.
Video Production Credit
Producer: Chen Yow-Ruu
Co-Directors: Au Sow Yee, Chen Yow-Ru
Performers: Hsu Chi-Yang, Kao,Han-Yen, KonFuFighting, Lu
Production Assistant/Log Keeper: Wayne Pan
Music Composer/Sound Mixing: Hsu Chi-Yang
Music Arrangement/Musician: Cheng Chia Fu, Hsu Chi-Yang, KonFuFighting
Costume Designer: Center You
Director of Photography: Chen KuanYu
First Assistant Camera: Yang Che chi
Second Assistant Camera: Lin Bo-Yu
Gaffer: Emile Peng
Best Boy: Yang Yu Ming
Second Assistant Lighting: Jade Lin
Second Assistant Lighting: Deng You Li
Lighting Intern: Wu Shang Hung
Still Photographer: Lee Hsin-Che
Special Thanks: Eva Kuo, Frank Kuo, KHS Musical Co., MUSIX CO., LTD., Ju Percussion Group
A production of Her Lab Space