- Date 2021/5/17-2021/9/15
- Venue Green Island White Terror Memorial Park / Visiting Room at Oasis Villa
The B-Side of Yueh-Tao—2021 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival
HUANG Li-Hui
Comments on the Finalist
HUANG Li-Hui cleverly uses “Yueh-Tao”* to connect her mother’s life story with the space and history of Green Island to portray various difficulties of achieving understanding and empathy, while thoughtfully giving her mother, a family member of a political victim, a presence to restore her agency in history. Under the burdensome forces of historical narrative, what is more precious is that the artist has always retained a slightly humorous tone without being restricted by the testimonial demand of historical archives. Through videos, textual descriptions, sound files, found objects, and a delicate arrangement of physical movements, this work not only avoids the stereotypical route informed by sorrow, indignation, bitterness, but also unfolds an enriched and three-dimensional way of expression for the site of issues related to transitional justice. (Commentator/WANG Sheng-Hung)
* Translator’s note: “Yueh-Tao” is the name of the artist’s mother and that of shellflowers, which are commonly found on Green Island.
Artwork Introduction
The B-Side of Yueh-Tao is a new project developed by HUANG Li-Hui for the 2021 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival. It reveals a tapestry of family history woven by the stories of Tai-Chin, Ying-Wu and Yueh-Tao, who are the artist’s family. In comparison to Huang’s previous project, The Daughter of Time of 2017, which discusses how the external world misunderstands her father’s identity as a political prisoner, in The B-Side of Yueh-Tao, HUANG contemplates on the narratives within her family/bears witness to the vagueness of language emerging between a speaker and a listener. In this work, the artist responds to the made-up qualities that are inevitable and repeatedly represented in historical narratives.
About the Artist
HUANG Li-Hui’s work starts with her personal difficulties, and discusses the spectrum of relationships and boundaries between individuals and the collective, as well as how people recognize and understand the universality of everyday life to find the joint point of grand narratives and personal histories. Her chosen media include performance, video and installation, of which the form of presentation changes according to different contexts, spaces and situations in life.
Production Team
【THE B-SIDE OF YUEH-TAO｜PRODUCTION CREW LIST】
【Videos】< Li-Hui's Mother is Going to Talk >
Whistle：Ying Wu Huang
Footage Provided by：Hai-ton Art Center
Post-production：Li Hui Huang
【Videos】< Yueh-Tao is Not at Green Island >
Directed by：Li Hui Huang
Cast ：Yueh Tao Shen
Director of Photography： Kun Yu Lu + Zih Yun Guo
Post-production：Zih Yun Guo
Gaffer：Jheng Min Tao
【Videos】< Yueh-Tao is at Green Island >
Directed by：Li Hui Huang
Cast ：Yueh Tao Shen
Director of Photography：Kun Yu Lu + Zih Yun Guo
Post-production：Zih Yun Guo
Gaffer ：Jheng Min Tao
【Black Phone Sound Installation】
Device Design & Making：Zheng Yu Chi
Sound Recording：Li Hui Huang
Conversations： Yueh Tao Shen + Li Hui Huang
【Assistance from Exhibition Coordinator & Execution】
Curator：Kao Jun Honn
National Human Rights Museum：Tsai Mei Juan
Goldilocks Production ：
Tsai Min Ling + Lin Yun Hsin + Lee Chi Chia + Zheng Yu Chi + Chang Yong Hsin
【Assistance from Exhibition Production】
MAD B.：Guo Jing Jie + Shiu Heng Gau
【Special Thanks】
National Human Rights Museum
Goldilocks Production
Hai-ton Art Center
Suu Studios
Sony Music Publishing (Pte) Ltd., Taiwan Branch
Green Island Oceanrelier
Hong-Mei Shop
Li Jhong
Tsai Hai Ru
Chen Ping Jung
Jheng Jia Fong
Minou Chen
Wei Hsuan Lung
Nien Yun Liu
Fu Hui Huang
Robert Spencer
【THROUGH THE REFLECTION OF GREEN ISLAND—
2021 GREEN ISLAND HUMAN RIGHTS ART FESTIVAL | PRODUCTION CREW LIST】
Coordinating supervisor：Chen Chun-Hung
Administrative supervisor：Chang Chan-Chuan
Exhibition coordinator：Huang Lung-Shin
Exhibition executive：Tsai Mei-Juan, Vita Wu
Curator：Kao Jun-Honn
Coordinator：Hu Hsin-Yi
TNUA Project Coordinator：Wang Pao-Hsuan
Project Manager：Tsai Min-Ling
Project Executive：Lin Yun-Hsin, Lee Chi-Chia, Zheng Yu-Chi, Chang Yong-Hsin
TNUA Project Executive： Huang Ning, Ciou Sih-Ying
TNUA Project Adviser：Wang Pao-Hsuan, Wu Huai-Chen, Kao Jun-Honn, Lai Shu-Ya
Visual Design：Liu Cowei
Visual Design Executive：Dualai.com
Translation ：Huang Liang-Rung
CF：Kyle Jhuang
Documentary ：Huang Ya-Nung, Cheng Yi-Ting, Lin Chang-Ling, Hu Yu-Chen
Exhibition Production ：MAD B.
Transportation：JC Art
Special Thanks ：Walk in Taiwan, Lyudao Junior High School, OuYang Wen, Ou Yang Hui-Mei
Artists：Nguyen Kim-Hong+Tsai Tsung-Lung, Wu Ke-Wei+Tsai Yu-Jou, Chou Hsin-Yu, Lin Anchi [Ciwas], Lin Yan-Xiang, Huang Li-Hui, Huang I-Chieh+ Liao Xuan-Zhen, Hong Jun- Yuan, Liu Chi-Tung, Chen Ping-Jung, Chen I-Chun
Foreign artists；narco, Lee Chun-Fung, FX Harsono
Artists of the TNUA ：Li Jyun-Jyue + Lin Chih-Hong + Wan Chih-Hsuan + Liu Pei-Ling, Xu Ming-Qian + Wu Wei-Ting, Shih Li-Jia
Artists of The Story Retold ：Lee Chia-Hung + Lin Tzu-Ning, Sung Wen-Po + Chiharu+ Lin Chuan-Kai + Alumni of Wengzi Elementary School
