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Exhibition Works

Botanical Scroll

 

2025

Single-channel video, object, 05'20"

This work uses the processes of plant dissemination, adaptation, and mutation as metaphors to explore narrative imaginings of cross-cultural exchange and species migration. Through the interplay of moving images, object installations, and AI-generated visuals, it constructs a visual lexicon that reflects the interweaving, fusion, and transformation of plants and humans during geographical migrations. Revisiting the historical trajectory of Spanish migration to Taiwan, the propagation and regeneration of plants serve as metaphors for cultural fluidity and the reconstruction of identity. Amid the layered intersections of geography and history across time, the work asks how we might co-create visual imaginaries and cultural memories of a “hybrid ecology.” Inspired by the founding of San Salvador City by the Spanish on Heping Island, Keelung in 1626, the piece engages with one of the rare sites in northern Taiwan that holds both deep historical roots and cultural continuity. Archaeological findings spanning prehistoric cultures in northern Taiwan reveal Heping Island as a palimpsest of overlapping historical contexts. This site evokes heterogeneous fusion in the process of cultural formation and invites a reexamination of Taiwan’s cultural mutation, regeneration, and future potential.

CHW Lab is a new media art collective based in Taiwan. Guided by the core concept of "Create Habitat Wisely," the team explores the artistic practice and speculative imagination of artificial nature and future habitats, aiming to bridge technology and the humanities. Their works incorporate algorithmic processes, AI-generated imagery, sensing technologies, and kinetic installations to construct hybrid connections between the virtual and the real, creating immersive sensory experiences. The team members are Yung-Hsien CHEN, Meng-Chin HUANG, and Po-Yu WANG.

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