Tzu-Chi Yeh - (Taiwán)
Wind Sonata
SYNOPSIS
Wind Sonata
This is a performance in which the artist makes herself invisible and lets the wind, leaves, clouds and sunshine show/perform in time. The audience “sees” the artist’s willpower, endurance, and concepts As time gradually passed, the leaves fluttered several times, the sun came and went, the light and shadow moved forward and backward, and after a large number of leaves floated away, the artist’s body was gradually revealed from the head. It turns out that this is not only a sonata of the wind, but also a sculpture show of the wind.
However, in addition to the beautiful natural forces mentioned above, another dark natural force was also perceived at the same time! When the artist was about to get up to finish the work, she found that she was limp, dizzy and photophobic. At this time, she realized that people are actually very fragile, and it is impossible to press them for too long! This experience reminded her of the victims who were trapped in collapsed buildings due to landslides or earthquakes! Nature can be magnificent and beautiful, but it can also be dangerous and extinct!
As for the girls’ chatter from the audience, at first I thought it would ruin the work, but I must admit that when I felt more and more isolated, lonely and bored within the leaves, their youthful and energetic voices, which waxed and waned like a tide, became a very important power of companionship and support for me!
BIO
Yeh Tzu-Chi grew up in Taipei and now lives in Tainan. She majored in western literature, and had been an editor in a literary monthly, a full-time English lecturer at a junior college, as well as a freelance translator and writer before she turned to performance art in 2002. Since then she has been invited to join international performance art festivals/events in different countries such as Japan, Korea, Philippine, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore,Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, Israel, Croatia, Canada, Mexico, United States, Germany, Switzerland, Chile, and Argentina. In 2003, she founded ArTrend Performance Group to promote performance art in Taiwan. She has held five ArTrend International Performance Art Festivals, four In Love with Poetry live events, quite a few performance art workshops, and published six documentary catalogues.
Her performance is largely inspired by her experience and observation in life as a woman, and sometimes she tries to get inspiration from reading. It has a wide range of themes, various forms, and carried out in unlimited venues. In her performance she often combines her own body, process, environment, and audience with minimalist ready-mades to form a time-based art as well as Arte Povera.
After 20 years of live performance practice, now she is still active in the field, and tries to find opportunity to show her document videos and photos to the public.
NETWORKS
Fecha
24/10/2012
Lugar
Incheon, Corea del Sur
Cámara
Cha Ji Ryang
Evento
Incheon Art Platform
Apoyo
Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture / Incheon Art Platform
