PERFORMANCES 2001-2003
Sound performance With Maider Fortune (2001)
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Lin-Chi-Wei Live in Taipei Electronic Arts Phenomena (2002)
REDHOUSE ACTION / 2004 / Redhouse Theatre ,Taipei /
Redhouse action is an analogue-digital music project where humans replace machines. The audience was invited to read words embroidered on a 150 meters long plastic sausages balloon. The lyric is meaningless, but rhymes taken from classic poetry. In this way, a human delay effect was made. The repetitive reading sounds from the audience create an ever-evolving sound mass. This is “Analogue Music”.
The “Digital” mechanism is triggered by four sets of noise generating instruments distributed to the audience: water tube, aluminum sheets, beans in a can, and velcro. A game show-like host plays the role of a director with four different colored flags to demonstrate the on and off signals of this “16-Bit digital music.” This video documentation shows the audience improvises on the written notations. (text:translated:Esther Lu)
NIGHT CHANTING / 2005 / Taipei International Performance Art Festival
The audience sits in spiral on the floor reading words printed on a long paper belt. The chanting forms an evolving sound mass.(Esther Lu)
VISIONARYⅠ/ 2005 / Gu-Ling Theatre
“I will walk on your head in 10 minutes!!”, the masked man screams while recording himself. Reversed and played then recorded again on a second recorder, this play-recording process repeats itself between two recorders until the original sound decays and eventually transforms into harsh noise. Then the masked man leaves one player play repetitively.
The masked man begins to gyrate his body like seaweed in the ocean, undulating forward and backward with his feet firmly in one place on the floor. He then turns back toward the video projection screen where his own balancing image was projected. It is difficult for the audience to know if it is real-time projection or the masked man imitating his own gestures.
The masked man then takes off his plastic gloves and raises his arms like that of a catholic priest in the pulpit. A stage assistant paints Nazi swastikas on both of his hands. He approaches the audience, shakes hands with them and writes swastikas on the audience in the front row. This icon is transfer into a Buddhist swastika (卍). Screaming sounds from the audience rises higher as the masked man makes his way towards the exit by walking on top of the heads of the seated audience.(text translated:Esther Lu)
VISIONARYⅡ/ 2005 / White Water Theatre
In a room that reeks of strong herbal smoke, the audience sees a hand from inside a window pressing the play button of a portable cassette player. A recorded junky-like narrator’s sound is heard. Lin Chi-Wei appears in an S&M suit with a mask on his head making strange gyrating movements with raised hands and waving body. The narrator talks about the failure of the previous night’s performance and promises an improved presentation tonight. Light bulb, sound recorder, electric chair is well designed to prevent the tragedy of Auschwitz happen again the narrator tells the audience, he is ready to “impress” the audience and bring them “to the new life”. One by one the audience finds the two bare bronze cables attached on their seat is actually an electric chair design and it is in fact not just a joke. Sopped the waving movements, Lin Chi-Wei takes off the mask then climbs on the ladder to switch on the central power supply which gives 3 electro-shocks to individual seats in the audience in the sudden darkness. Harsh white noise is heard after the final count down. When the lights are turned on again, Lin Chi-Wei appears in a suit and distributes dried plants in small zip-lock bags. (Text translated by Yeh-Wei-Li)
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