Liu Han-Chih: Selected Works and Artist’s Statements

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Still image from Too Late

Too Late
2006, Video, colour, with sound, 5min33sec

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Walking / Reading / Message Leaving Machine
2011, Mixed media

“Walk” the machine and you could read the rolling message embedded in the machine. The rolling tyre get the rolling message running,words slips through the viewer’s eyes when walking. What the viewer reads is a message which the gaps between sentences gradually increase when moving further, and this actually implies – get your ass away.

 

图3Page Turning Machine
2011, Mixed media, 90×50×90cm

Indolently laying on the desk. As the book pages turing, the wind blows to the face with mouldy smell from the book. Let all the words flies by in front but not reading any of it. Half asleep, and half awake. Read quickly, and forget quickly.

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Visitor (2013), installation view

Visitor
2013, Mixed media

This is a kinetic art with a crystal hypnosis ball. The hypnotist sets the implement on the doorframe outside the room. He swings his crystal ball aiming at the door’s peephole and hypnotize the person looking out, murmuring, “The door bell didn’t ring.There isn’t anyone outside…You are just looking forward to someone’s visit…”

 

图11 图12Blooming in a Railway Carriage,installation view未命名-5 列印

Artist’s illustration for Blooming in a Railway Carriage (2013)

Blooming in a Railway Carriage
2013, Mixed media

An artificial lim applies to be used in a crowded railway carriage. Circular electric limbs wiggle as petals, ad the offender’s behaviors looks just like a blooming lotus flower in the carriage.

Translation of the artist’s poem for Blooming in a Railway Carriage:

A lotus flower blossoms in a train car
Outside the train window, it’s pitch black
Maybe the train has furtively entered a forest
The flower’s fragrance fills the car
The train furtively rolls along the bottom of the sea
The petals float away on the waves
The train furtively rolls across the Milky Way
The lotus shines in the moonlight

Maybe some people get on the train
In order to pass through the forest
Others, to pass through the sea
Others, to cross the Milky Way

People, floating all around!
The lotus is blossoming just for you
and asks nothing in return.