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Huatung Village was located in Sijhih City in Taiwan and populated by the Amis people. In 1985, there were three Amis families farming vegetables by the Dakeng River Bridge along Provincial Highway No. 5. The next year, about ten Amis families built cabins and stayed there. That is how Huatung Village started. By 1996, it became a village of 215 families. It was a huge block of illegal buildings. The villagers used abandoned iron sheets and wood to build their houses. They also used those materials to build the traditional tribal lookouts, community meeting rooms, and churches. In 1997, the government evicted the whole village and moved them to subsidized government housing. Now, the site is covered by grass, and one can only find a few ruins left behind. My work was videotaping the actual site. Juxtaposing separate audio and video tracks, the chieftain?s voiceover talks about the village?s history, while the video track shows what the village looks like nowadays. Gradually, as day turns into night, the video?s structure changes from documentation to another approach: I wanted to constantly blend the layers between the location (documentation) and the scene (narrative).

1983 Born in Taichung, Taiwan, live and work in Taipei, Taiwan. 2005 graduated from Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts 2010 graduated from Graduate School of Plastic Art, National Taiwan University of Arts My method is a specific kind of ?Narrative? -- a way of documenting that interferes with the reality of the text, by focusing on a site?s specific and peculiar characteristics, such as memory, imagination, or identification. With these characteristics in mind, I develop a narrative, and between the reality of the text and the fictional narrative, I construct a myth or a legend. I am also one of the members from Open-Contemporary Art Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This art space consists of numerous young artist and runs over 9 years. Through practicing organizing exhibitions and writing, I try to expand art influences to the society.