https://ausowyee.cargo.site Au Sow Yee Thu, 21 May 2026 04:30:12 +0000 https://ausowyee.cargo.site en https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Info Fri, 21 May 2021 11:39:42 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Info Au Sow Yee&nbsp; 區秀詒 Born and grew up in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Sow Yee now lives and work in Taipei (Taiwan). She is a recipient of Honorable Mentions in 2021 Taipei Art Award, and a finalist in the 2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize. Her works focuses mainly in questioning, exploring as well as expanding the relation between images, image making, history, politics and power, through video installation and other mediums.&nbsp; Sow Yee’s works were exhibited in 2023 Sharjah Biennale, 2022 Busan Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin), Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, BACC (Bangkok) and various other exhibitions and screenings. Sow Yee co-founded Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective in 2017. Recent Updates / Exhibitions: Spectrosynthesis Seoul (Mar 20 – Jun 28, 2026, at Art Sonje Center, Seoul) WE Are Becoming (May 8 - August 16, 2026, at C-LAB - Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei) ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Email ︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Instagram︎&nbsp; &nbsp; Vimeo CV︎ &nbsp; &nbsp;Latest Interview︎&nbsp; &nbsp; a member of&nbsp; Her Lab Space https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Beyond-the-Cold-Sea-Every-Cloud-a-Silver-Lining-Her-Lab-Space-2026 Thu, 21 May 2026 04:11:32 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Beyond-the-Cold-Sea-Every-Cloud-a-Silver-Lining-Her-Lab-Space-2026 Beyond the Cold Sea, Every Cloud a Silver Lining (Her Lab Space, 2026)AU Sow Yee × CHEN Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space) video installation | commissioned by Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) |&nbsp;Part of C-LAB Annual Exhibition “WE Are Becoming”，May 8 - 16 August, 2026 <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bb7a80e38af0607f485157725616de4ea807999b1d7b4c11aba14e156810dfd/20260506----sRGB-mini--179.jpg" data-mid="248571037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3bb7a80e38af0607f485157725616de4ea807999b1d7b4c11aba14e156810dfd/20260506----sRGB-mini--179.jpg" /> <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1989b662a7e92b3b2064ba220a42b51463cdfe7486ddc9eef3ecd4819bd57318/20260506----sRGB-mini--167.jpg" data-mid="248571035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1989b662a7e92b3b2064ba220a42b51463cdfe7486ddc9eef3ecd4819bd57318/20260506----sRGB-mini--167.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a7dce243017729afcaa86ba346cd3cbe6642aa2a00c97495a6c4c2dfd412962/690549386_10162635787512187_6711501572361608657_n.jpg" data-mid="248571044" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a7dce243017729afcaa86ba346cd3cbe6642aa2a00c97495a6c4c2dfd412962/690549386_10162635787512187_6711501572361608657_n.jpg" /> <img width="1687" height="2048" width_o="1687" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/917b6ef7d3eca0b4e16b58c42abbcf6ee7697ac956c95c54dd041df25404f56b/690633577_10162635786782187_6933223736337101728_n.jpg" data-mid="248571045" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/917b6ef7d3eca0b4e16b58c42abbcf6ee7697ac956c95c54dd041df25404f56b/690633577_10162635786782187_6933223736337101728_n.jpg" /> <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3851a38608d3d106d8b8f8ffba51174ba40f5e33d1eaa72cd0759336ac901273/20260506----sRGB-mini--187.jpg" data-mid="248571043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3851a38608d3d106d8b8f8ffba51174ba40f5e33d1eaa72cd0759336ac901273/20260506----sRGB-mini--187.jpg" /> <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33f5132aeba9876d6477415f53d31e7799eddc46fa6ec574cfb0e2dabbad66d/20260506----sRGB-mini--185.jpg" data-mid="248571042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d33f5132aeba9876d6477415f53d31e7799eddc46fa6ec574cfb0e2dabbad66d/20260506----sRGB-mini--185.jpg" /> <img width="7000" height="4667" width_o="7000" height_o="4667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5de20fccc41d6ba825781f47ed3e9a1640623c458d158ee41d3c0c517014142e/20260506----sRGB-L--78.jpg" data-mid="248571040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5de20fccc41d6ba825781f47ed3e9a1640623c458d158ee41d3c0c517014142e/20260506----sRGB-L--78.jpg" /> <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/990877d58f7432aff0f108df059dc06fe98d90f3a32a8fa36d6cae7c22e64dfb/20260506----sRGB-mini--181.jpg" data-mid="248571039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/990877d58f7432aff0f108df059dc06fe98d90f3a32a8fa36d6cae7c22e64dfb/20260506----sRGB-mini--181.jpg" /> <img width="3111" height="2074" width_o="3111" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e08a5beef4bea4c7667f326404d5c7c1734a29b2bc7d7a04cfdd4d7bedccc7e9/20260506----sRGB-mini--180.jpg" data-mid="248571038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e08a5beef4bea4c7667f326404d5c7c1734a29b2bc7d7a04cfdd4d7bedccc7e9/20260506----sRGB-mini--180.jpg" /> *Exhibition photos / Courtesy of C-LAB*Photography / dulub studio Starting from the 'heroes' of two 1960s Taiwanese-language Cold War films, "Female Agent No. 7" and "Tarzan and the Treasure", "Beyond the Cold Sea, Every Cloud a Silver Lining" explores history, temporal construction and their perceptual imaginaries through the 'empty shots' within the heroes' trajectories. It unfolds as a heroic journey in which characters recede and landscapes take voice — a speculative play of absences between north and south. *In the title, 'Cold Sea' merges the imaginaries of the Cold War and Southeast Asia, while 'Silver' alludes to the silver screen — cinema itself. https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Lecture-Performance-Beyond-the-Cold-Sea-Every-Cloud-a-Silver-Lining Thu, 21 May 2026 04:30:12 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Lecture-Performance-Beyond-the-Cold-Sea-Every-Cloud-a-Silver-Lining (Lecture Performance) Beyond the Cold Sea, Every Cloud a Silver Lining (Her Lab Space, 2026)AU Sow Yee × CHEN Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space) lecture performance | 40 minutes | commissioned by Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF)&nbsp; <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18b32298b903283e9c65140489c07132e31bdc831204c96baa59a8cf62f8695f/686992866_1281254737470942_921766988174262149_n.jpg" data-mid="248571123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18b32298b903283e9c65140489c07132e31bdc831204c96baa59a8cf62f8695f/686992866_1281254737470942_921766988174262149_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/652827c088b44222b081f94e8257d0b7dac0a27b008fda43568f16e1a1f240a5/689477143_1281254334137649_2522488903753455617_n.jpg" data-mid="248571129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/652827c088b44222b081f94e8257d0b7dac0a27b008fda43568f16e1a1f240a5/689477143_1281254334137649_2522488903753455617_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99b43e833bcb2f5623a7321ab795c5d9d4057bb1e1bfefab501d6f552356ddab/689473132_1281254460804303_1279282711569282665_n.jpg" data-mid="248571128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99b43e833bcb2f5623a7321ab795c5d9d4057bb1e1bfefab501d6f552356ddab/689473132_1281254460804303_1279282711569282665_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a777a8b15a55d88219de30306e2a9c082eedbfffe6813609a469b4ff253bf5bc/689014485_1281254734137609_253059742555616038_n.jpg" data-mid="248571127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a777a8b15a55d88219de30306e2a9c082eedbfffe6813609a469b4ff253bf5bc/689014485_1281254734137609_253059742555616038_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e10837b03d9020fa9ca8480ffcbe81f6891b9c9a400b6165d290ac3f9374c3c6/689010314_1281254464137636_5151029699643171105_n.jpg" data-mid="248571126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e10837b03d9020fa9ca8480ffcbe81f6891b9c9a400b6165d290ac3f9374c3c6/689010314_1281254464137636_5151029699643171105_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1366" width_o="2048" height_o="1366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09278d9a24376971ccf4ab45746936dc12ffad5b6f64e4d70586b76127ab8af1/687589009_1281254864137596_3023220407416317817_n.jpg" data-mid="248571125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09278d9a24376971ccf4ab45746936dc12ffad5b6f64e4d70586b76127ab8af1/687589009_1281254864137596_3023220407416317817_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76d68bd8a0f3fe03691f2aca35b9be4f8fbe5857fc5c43a64f0ed0502ccef477/687553799_1281254604137622_8110666694264932251_n.jpg" data-mid="248571124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76d68bd8a0f3fe03691f2aca35b9be4f8fbe5857fc5c43a64f0ed0502ccef477/687553799_1281254604137622_8110666694264932251_n.jpg" /> *photos courtesy of Taiwan International Documentary Festival Starting from the 'heroes' of two 1960s Taiwanese-language Cold War films, "Female Agent No. 7" and "Tarzan and the Treasure", "Beyond the Cold Sea, Every Cloud a Silver Lining" explores history, temporal construction and their perceptual imaginaries through the 'empty shots' within the heroes' trajectories. It unfolds as a heroic journey in which characters recede and landscapes take voice — a speculative play of absences between north and south. *In the title, 'Cold Sea' merges the imaginaries of the Cold War and Southeast Asia, while 'Silver' alludes to the silver screen — cinema itself. https://ausowyee.cargo.site/The-Broadcast-Project-A-Many-Splendoured-Thing-of-the-Coconut-a-Belle Thu, 21 May 2026 03:36:54 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/The-Broadcast-Project-A-Many-Splendoured-Thing-of-the-Coconut-a-Belle The Broadcast Project: A Many-Splendoured Thing of the Coconut, a Belle From Penang and theSecret Agent II （2018/2025）video installation | commissioned by Taichung Art Museum <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54b2b5399b9a2084419d7df9093a0312d079a5646151d45f57bfad462975a25b/625043999_18562224907054258_2228466773914649493_n.jpg" data-mid="248570958" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54b2b5399b9a2084419d7df9093a0312d079a5646151d45f57bfad462975a25b/625043999_18562224907054258_2228466773914649493_n.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7171c5cebc6f41b19e1b209ce4211746ffd62c7962f28abfe7601e8176362deb/627064765_18562224931054258_8870476939830929849_n.jpg" data-mid="248570962" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7171c5cebc6f41b19e1b209ce4211746ffd62c7962f28abfe7601e8176362deb/627064765_18562224931054258_8870476939830929849_n.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c845849d801602a770c29eaa31becdd87188d49612c397753a34893910659079/627126173_18562224916054258_1514994949660555723_n.jpg" data-mid="248570963" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c845849d801602a770c29eaa31becdd87188d49612c397753a34893910659079/627126173_18562224916054258_1514994949660555723_n.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/966323f99c2a14f98ece11a50cc032c9b1d44ea97a3306fcad94754656431ea9/625842272_18562224934054258_2328346498930934926_n.jpg" data-mid="248570960" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/966323f99c2a14f98ece11a50cc032c9b1d44ea97a3306fcad94754656431ea9/625842272_18562224934054258_2328346498930934926_n.jpg" /> * Photography：ANPIS FOTO courtesy of Taichung Art Museum In the early twentieth century, the imperial Japanese government attempted to transform northern South Taiwan into a ‘paradise’, simply in order to provide a test case for further expansion into Southeast Asia in the future. Enormous quantities of tropical plants were transported to Taiwan,&nbsp;including coconut trees, which were seen as a strategic object in the expansion of borders—enacting a systemization of nature as such.In 1935, the Japanese government commemorated the fortieth anniversary of the colonization of Taiwan with an extravagant display of cultural and political power, ‘The Taiwan Exposition: In Commemoration of the First Forty Years of Colonial Rule’. This fifty-day event celebrated Japanese and Taiwanese products and craftsmanship, construction and modernization, and occupied over thirty new buildings in Taipei and across the island. The Exposition’s&nbsp;South Pavilion featured a&nbsp;reproduction of rubber plantation—though the rubber tree itself is not native to Southeast Asia, it now grows here in abundance having been imported from South America by the British. This Pavilion was also flanked by sculptures of horses, an animal usually accustomed to temperate climates and unable to withstand extreme heat, but which was trained in humid southern Taiwan in order to prepare for upcoming battles. In this sense, the Taiwanese Exposition revealed the way in which the geographies of flora and fauna have been manipulated by humans to sustain colonization.Designed as a set mimicking the Southern Pavilion from the Taiwan Exposition in 1935, and integrates radio broadcasts, video works, and archival objects, A Love Story of Life and Death charts Taiwan’s colonial history through an unlikely romance between a vanished intelligence agent and the ‘Belle of Penang’ (Bin Cheng Yan). A theatrical murder mystery of sorts, this performative installation invites viewers to reimagine the relationships between Japan, Taiwan, and Malaysia, exposed through their political and botanical connections. Installation Team｜ Music Composition: юли Sound Mixing / Sound Design: Feng Chih Ming Production and Installation Assistant: Chen Yow-Ruu Partial Woodwork: Lin Yu-Quan https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Lecture-Performance-Once-Upon-a-Unicorn-Her-Lab-Space-2022-2025-2026 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:49:53 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Lecture-Performance-Once-Upon-a-Unicorn-Her-Lab-Space-2022-2025-2026 (Lecture Performance) Once Upon a Unicorn (2022/2025/2026) Au Sow Yee X Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)special appearance Chou Chia-Kuan (2025) |&nbsp;special appearance Chou Chia-Kuan. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38d87b1e487b949a5da96e2c8210de1a8dac25e5d0d1d7e223a0810603a48458/477416493_939344911661928_7467901168884087561_n.jpg" data-mid="227022975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38d87b1e487b949a5da96e2c8210de1a8dac25e5d0d1d7e223a0810603a48458/477416493_939344911661928_7467901168884087561_n.jpg" /> (2025, photos courtesy of C-LAB) In our inaugural dawn In the pageantry of conferring names When the legions streamed Past the dais, All animals, like parades, paired together. You headed the pageantry Without a mate. All felt whole, contented, Marching in uniform stride. You led them alone Like the horn in the middle of your head. Tawfiq Sayigh بضعة أسئلة لأطرحها على الكركدن A Few Questions I Pose to the Unicorn On 27th May 2019, almost every major news media covered the story on the death of the last male rhinoceros in Malaysia. Tam, the rhino is from a Sumatran origin. Sumatra now is part of Indonesia and was once under the governance of VOC, the Dutch East India Company. The news predicted the extinction of rhinoceros in Malaysia for there will be only one female rhinoceros left. The 17th century VOC’s mercenary Captain Ripon cited in his diary a “unicorn” up on Taiwan’s mountain. In the early 20th century, descendant of Japan Tokugawa family Tokugawa Yoshichika wrote about animals hunted during a hunting trip in a letter to Sultan Ibrahim of Johor. Once Upon a Unicorn attempts to open up dialectical imagination of the ocean, sound measuring, image seance, power structuring, intermingling time and space through folk stories of the “unicorn” and trips on the ocean. This is a performance integrating exchanging languages, the misunderstanding and interpretation of sound and image, leading to a journey or reversible image movement that is visible, invisible, audible and inaudible. Like The Arabian Night, Once Upon a Unicorn is a story from a long long time ago, but affecting multiple lives. Production Team (2026) | Concept / Text / Performer: Au Sow YeeDirector / Performer: Chen Yow-Ruu Special Appearance: Chou Chia Kuan, Martin Hsieh Acoustic Design: Feng Chih Ming&nbsp; Acoustic Design Assistant: Chen Yi Cing Reviews:人的語言與動物的聲音：「眾聲喧嘩——講述表演集」李立中與區秀詒的🕊️🦄🎪🍅🧭 https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Shattered-Night-March-of-the-Shimmering-Raven-2025-2026 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:13:40 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Shattered-Night-March-of-the-Shimmering-Raven-2025-2026 Shattered Night March of the Shimmering Raven (2025/2026)&nbsp; sound/video installation <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa6221d6cec695a076edd1ea26dd8e362fda446e0ea9f334dab791938c35a5a2/652337336_10162439453747187_798600111554960515_n.jpg" data-mid="248571048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa6221d6cec695a076edd1ea26dd8e362fda446e0ea9f334dab791938c35a5a2/652337336_10162439453747187_798600111554960515_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b197013ff5027edd800988a699b2445aaa91f10f4e04cb44720f1de8c5744aef/652871580_10162439453267187_6127210034196876329_n.jpg" data-mid="248571050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b197013ff5027edd800988a699b2445aaa91f10f4e04cb44720f1de8c5744aef/652871580_10162439453267187_6127210034196876329_n.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac7302e69e9436ffa4e70df187f020110a2af1929ad60d074b3dc9a115737648/652674950_10162439454112187_2228803373765376463_n.jpg" data-mid="248571049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac7302e69e9436ffa4e70df187f020110a2af1929ad60d074b3dc9a115737648/652674950_10162439454112187_2228803373765376463_n.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8bf32db7d29e6e3838917084e5be97d2a931b32b7fd84e33d5b5f59f4ecf656/655633102_10162439453272187_6172289789714641585_n.jpg" data-mid="248571051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8bf32db7d29e6e3838917084e5be97d2a931b32b7fd84e33d5b5f59f4ecf656/655633102_10162439453272187_6172289789714641585_n.jpg" /> * Installation View at Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2026)* Photography: Chen Yow-Ruu <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3edaf4774b163e57de2033c78dfca808919e29952bbba8c112e012a757c8aa2/20250604-s077.jpg" data-mid="234755363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3edaf4774b163e57de2033c78dfca808919e29952bbba8c112e012a757c8aa2/20250604-s077.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1601" width_o="2400" height_o="1601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dea1ce6bad876d3c4ff5666af3d1b63bb36273ab4b8c107810d1b4de83bb77f1/20250604-s076.jpg" data-mid="234755362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dea1ce6bad876d3c4ff5666af3d1b63bb36273ab4b8c107810d1b4de83bb77f1/20250604-s076.jpg" /> * Credit: C-LAB 臺灣當代文化實驗場Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)* Photography：One Work Goway LU "Shattered Night March of the Shimmering Raven" originated from my father's long-term playlist. The earliest source of this playlist was the government flat in the center of Kuala Lumpur where I lived when I was a child. The flat is located on the edge of the city center during the British colonial period. It is within walking distance of the place where the country declared independence. From the balcony, you can see the prison built by the British. Every day, clear calls of prayer are heard from the loudspeakers of the nearby mosque. In the changing times, this flat has gradually become an unattended wasteland on the edge of the bustling and gorgeous city. My father's playlist began to be established when he lived in the flat for more than ten years. From cassettes to the current online streaming, it seems that time has stopped and continues to this day in the torrent of changes in sound media. The playlist period of the government flat was always accompanied by the crows outside the balcony, which was especially loud in the early morning and evening. Crows, which have long become a city landscape, are actually not native to Malaysia. It is said that during the British colonial period, British merchants introduced them from Sri Lanka to the Malay Peninsula at that time in order to solve the problem of caterpillar pests in plantations. In more than 100 years, crows have gone from being outsiders to becoming local species. However, due to their large numbers, they are prone to spreading diseases, and have been shot in large numbers by the city government. My father's playlist, which sounded in the crows' voices, is full of broken and incoherent language and music styles. This playlist seems to reflect the complex life experience of Malaysia where he lives, and at the same time implies a certain historical spectrum of time and social politics. Through the crows, my father's playlist is translated into a code and woven into a new sound. Through the government flat where I lived in the 1980s and 1990s as coordinates, "Shattered Night March of the Shimmering Raven" is composed of seemingly daily and broken soundscapes, suggesting the undercurrent of identity politics and colonial history. The crows in the sound scene are metaphors for the fluid identity of the local and the other or multiple overlaps. But who is the other, who is the family, the community, what is the illusion, and are these all illusions? *Production Credit (2025) Music Composition｜юлия Sound Mixing and Raven’s sound installation｜Feng Chih Ming 3D Printed Raven｜Her Lab Space Carpenter for the Raven’s Stand｜Hsu Tsung Jen Found Sound from News Reel｜Gurkha Active in Malaya (1949), Merdeka (1957) Original Moon Image from Wikipedia, Near-Full moon on 11/14/16, 8" reflector, direct imaging, 6 hours before greatest full moon, provided by Tom Ruen https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Theater-Performance-A-Curious-Seance-of-K-and-Ponti-Her-Lab-Space-2025 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:14:49 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Theater-Performance-A-Curious-Seance-of-K-and-Ponti-Her-Lab-Space-2025 A Curious Séance of K and Ponti (2025) ｜Au Sow Yee × Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)theater performance, 70 minutes <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" 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K created Ponti. Ponti is aware that she has disappeared from K's memory. To prove her existence, she chases her own shadow and discovers spirits wandering among memories, history, legends, and oblivion. Slowly descending from cracks in a rock, spirits embark on an unknown journey that takes them from one party to another. Who created who in this journey? The story starts with K's final moments. Within interwoven real and imagined emotion-inducing memories are hidden narratives of history and identity, Southeast Asian mythologies, and unfinished tasks. This work seeks to question the conflicts, losses, and dialectics of solidified identities and liquid identity boundaries. Who is the one that is forgotten? Is it the apparition wandering between history and fiction, hidden mirror of the others or is it the self that escapes through the cracks? Those names that have fought history ultimately cannot escape the fate of being archived as codes, gradually isolated in the echoes of memory. Together, we will enter the séance and confront the incomplete fate codes. K, could be Malayan film tycoon Loke Wan Tho, or a Nepali Gurkha soldier; Ponti, once, and perhaps still, is the lovely and beautiful ghost Pontianak, or simply an extension of longing. Concept | The concept of A Curious Séance of K and Ponti was first incubated in 2023. Now more than two years have passed, and the title and texts have also gone through multiple reincarnations. During these reincarnations, we have continued focusing on the “Other”, “Mirror”, and “Rock”, thus becoming the spiritual pillars to the production. French historian Pierre Nora, in his book Les lieux de mémoire (Realms of Memory), explored the concept of a “mirror of nonself”, which does not reflect the same because it is the difference that we are seeking. “In the image of this difference, the ephemeral spectacle of an unrecoverable identity […] we seek […] the decipherment of what we are in the light of what we are no longer.” For us, the “non-self” isn't necessarily the “other,” but rather the “other” as a part of the identity of the non-self. In the turbulent apocalyptic times, each of us&nbsp; may be the other in various undercurrents. Those seemingly distant objects, stories, and time may in turn reflect our realities. Mirrors, in addition to being a crucial part in such technologies as the history of moving images, are also seen in the Malay Archipelago as the instruments of ghosts’ projection. As for rocks, history, and even identities, they appear to carry solidified imaginations and aspirations. However, the seemingly stable, solidified rocks are impacted by time, leaving invisible scratches and cracks within. The forces that quietly chisel and crack rocks from within are perhaps the ghosts of colonial power, identity politics, and inner desires that we are reluctant to confront, unable to see, or perhaps unwilling to face. How are we defined by others, and how will others define us? If a legend is passed down from one person to another, what happens in between? Do we care about it? If history has become an archive, what secrets lie underneath its stories that we might overlook? If characters in a play are never mentioned, will they simply remain code names tucked away in a book forever? As the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano writes in Espejos:Una Historia Casi Universal (Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone), “Mirrors are filled with people. The invisible see us. The forgotten recall us. When we see ourselves, we see them. When we turn away, do they?” *Mixed medium performative installation or any other curious forms or versions&nbsp; are open for discussions.*A Curious Séance of K and Ponti is a production of Her Lab Space, premiered 17-19 October 2025 at Experimental Theater in National Theater and Concert Hall (NTCH), Taipei.&nbsp; Incubated and commissioned for&nbsp; the 2025 Artquake In Autumn festival, organized by NTCH. https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Bad-Dream-Rocking-a-k-a-The-Rocking-Malaya-Her-Lab-Space-2024 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:34:52 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Bad-Dream-Rocking-a-k-a-The-Rocking-Malaya-Her-Lab-Space-2024 Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a The Rocking Malaya (2024) Au Sow Yee X Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space)commissioned by Singapore Art Museum <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afee6f5802c9e530ec575b90c154e0590ebfe3cd7a35140cb95628a641a858e9/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-02.jpg" data-mid="218941867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/afee6f5802c9e530ec575b90c154e0590ebfe3cd7a35140cb95628a641a858e9/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-02.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb7bfb87f99ec3a476b06313c2f8a9ee851b5104a64d8bc981618fb102f6d984/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-01.jpg" data-mid="218941866" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb7bfb87f99ec3a476b06313c2f8a9ee851b5104a64d8bc981618fb102f6d984/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-01.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/946eed0bef9e5bd4fc2485783d3bc9404c0602a5e83ceb3c19299c769e9c42df/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-09.jpg" data-mid="218941874" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/946eed0bef9e5bd4fc2485783d3bc9404c0602a5e83ceb3c19299c769e9c42df/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-09.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f567921117c8645b7dc2319836512117c873d85dcd8a309f0a350205c4f6ee49/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-08.jpg" data-mid="218941873" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f567921117c8645b7dc2319836512117c873d85dcd8a309f0a350205c4f6ee49/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-08.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f44796c04206badfa1265f9cac35b84adc402dbdf10108edd96a65c8e0b1788a/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-07.jpg" data-mid="218941872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f44796c04206badfa1265f9cac35b84adc402dbdf10108edd96a65c8e0b1788a/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-07.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e0841cf44a07f0ff8155e1da4023d6519a47e2dc4ce3fdbaf94532c9e25fc7a/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-06.jpg" data-mid="218941871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e0841cf44a07f0ff8155e1da4023d6519a47e2dc4ce3fdbaf94532c9e25fc7a/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-06.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70ffeda6b869bff4b14a0b52a7b6f0c42a5c5dca9b8416946097476422c8094b/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-05.jpg" data-mid="218941870" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70ffeda6b869bff4b14a0b52a7b6f0c42a5c5dca9b8416946097476422c8094b/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-05.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88a6a265d61360bfdd7dfe67ff84569addab94988f3de5ecf835c6a7e56a49d7/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-04.jpg" data-mid="218941869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88a6a265d61360bfdd7dfe67ff84569addab94988f3de5ecf835c6a7e56a49d7/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-04.jpg" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae2c24d6632cc03bb21f1888d17558802fae8e702323c585fb68e68001c08c01/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-03.jpg" data-mid="218941868" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae2c24d6632cc03bb21f1888d17558802fae8e702323c585fb68e68001c08c01/BAD-DREAM-ROCKING-03.jpg" /> Bad Dream Rocking, a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a)&nbsp;examines "Si Tanggang," a renowned Malay folktale depicting an individual who transforms into stone as a consequence of filial ingratitude. The artwork deconstructs and reconstructs the narrative, tracing the various iterations of "Si Tanggang" through retellings, cinematic adaptations, and journalistic accounts. Her Lab has also incorporated collective memories of the folktale in the installation by integrating audio recordings of interviews with undocumented children born and residing in Malaysia; each subject narrates the story in their own words and incorporates their envisioned modifications. By integrating archival materials and their numerous reenactments, Bad Dream Rocking, a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a), explores the metaphor of a fracturing rock being altered by imperceptible forces, reflecting the instability of identity. It also endeavors to interrogate issues such as the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, as well as insider and outsider status. Through the deconstruction and reconstruction of the tale, Her Lab has recontextualized "Si Tanggang" as a haunting, disconcerting dream, albeit not a nightmare. The story of “Si Tanggang” was adapted into a 1961 film produced by Malay Film Production and distributed by Shaw Brothers. What's the difference between him and us? People look at fortune. Following lines excerpted from the 1961 film were re-interpreted by undocumented children born and reside in Malaysia. “People look at races, classes, He is oil and we are water.How could we be the same? “ “Tanggang swear, if people look at classes,I will pursue classes. If people look at fortune,Tanggang will also pursue fortune. If races could be bought or found, Tanggang will also pursue that as well.” Production Credit Sound Recordings with Epyi, Ryi and Sha from Buku Jalanan Chow Kit &nbsp;(BJCK, Malaysia) . Video Production Credit a work by&nbsp; Au Sow Yee × Chen Yow-Ruu Producer | Chen Yow-Ruu Performers | Kurt Hsiao, LU, Tsai Yiling, Tseng Hsin-Yen Musicians | Winnie, Hu ChunChuan, Sylvain Chen, Wang Ching-Hsuan Additional sound reenactment of Si Tanggang’s dialogue | Epyi, Ryi and Sha (BJCK, Malaysia) Log Keeper | Wayne Pan Craft Service | Ryan Lin Director of Photography | Chen KuanYu First Assistant Camera | Yang Che Chi Second Assistant Camera | Chen Yi-Fang, Lai Chung-Yi Gaffer | Emile Peng Best Boy | Chang Hsing Pei, Yang Yu Ming Second Assistant Lighting | Yulii Deng, Jade Lin Sound/Foley/Mixing | Feng Chih Ming Sound Assistant | Chen Chieh Hsi Music Composer/Arrangement | Winnie Costume Designer | Center You Production Designer | Cheng Hsuan Sun Production Design Assistant | Jeong ZhiLong, Jamo Chen Still Photographer&nbsp; | Lee Hsin-Che A production of Her Lab Space Commissioned by Singapore Art Museum Supported by National Culture and Arts Foundation Special Thanks to Buku Jalanan Chow Kit, SPH Media, Jun Ng, Liyana Yamin, Richard Yeoh https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Aerofuture-Her-Lab-Space-2023 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:46:00 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Aerofuture-Her-Lab-Space-2023 Aerofuture (2023) Au Sow Yee X Chen Yow-Ruu (Her Lab Space) comissioned by New Taipei City Art Museum <img width="3936" height="2624" width_o="3936" height_o="2624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b30dfa48d5e4e5523876337b075eb6da1f8866d7ebf9b4d1995dd86ef9aa9b81/AEROFUTURE-01.JPG" data-mid="206238012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b30dfa48d5e4e5523876337b075eb6da1f8866d7ebf9b4d1995dd86ef9aa9b81/AEROFUTURE-01.JPG" /> <img width="3936" height="2624" width_o="3936" height_o="2624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1ddacb0c4489c91d936d99ad3e0f23a6f6f757d7d6f33a695ce7087807c98de/AEROFUTURE-04.JPG" data-mid="206238018" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/323a4182a0af6081456a8449baf851938884eb0dee7007ac6074291082d5f43b/aerofuture-still-03.jpg" data-mid="198328473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/323a4182a0af6081456a8449baf851938884eb0dee7007ac6074291082d5f43b/aerofuture-still-03.jpg" /> <img width="3677" height="2160" width_o="3677" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16988e1884d6cc820eda398c2a9afd74847881b55a8e0dd4c461f58be0740012/aerofuture-still-06.jpg" data-mid="198328159" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16988e1884d6cc820eda398c2a9afd74847881b55a8e0dd4c461f58be0740012/aerofuture-still-06.jpg" /> 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-RuuCo-Directors: Au Sow Yee, Chen Yow-Ru Performers: Hsu Chi-Yang, Kao,Han-Yen, KonFuFighting, LuProduction Assistant/Log Keeper: Wayne PanMusic Composer/Sound Mixing: Hsu Chi-Yang Music Arrangement/Musician: Cheng Chia Fu, Hsu Chi-Yang, KonFuFightingCostume Designer: Center YouDirector of Photography: Chen KuanYu First Assistant Camera: Yang Che chiSecond Assistant Camera: Lin Bo-YuGaffer: Emile PengBest Boy: Yang Yu MingSecond Assistant Lighting: Jade LinSecond Assistant Lighting: Deng You LiLighting Intern: Wu Shang HungStill Photographer: Lee Hsin-CheSpecial Thanks: Eva Kuo, Frank Kuo, KHS Musical Co., MUSIX CO., LTD., Ju Percussion GroupA production of Her Lab Space https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Pirates-the-Trembling-Ship-and-their-1001-Nights-I-Rock-and-Row-2022 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:48:33 +0000 Au Sow Yee https://ausowyee.cargo.site/Pirates-the-Trembling-Ship-and-their-1001-Nights-I-Rock-and-Row-2022 Pirates, the Trembling Ship and their 1001 Nights I: Rock and Row （2022） A video accompanied by a song transformed from an English lullaby, telling the imaginary journey of Abdulla Al Haj, a mysterious pirate with shifting identity during the 18th century, born in Canterbury, moved to the Arabs and later sailed to the Malay archipelago, venturing into fractured history and the recent past. &nbsp; Production Credits a video by Au Sow Yee lyrics written by Au Sow Yeemusic composed and sang by KonFuFighting / 420Hz StandardBureauwith tunes and lyrics from Row Row Row Your Boat