Blu-ray 'Realm of Reverberations'

Location(s) in the hierarchy

Chen Chieh-jen Collection

Information

Type

Archival Record

Identifier

GB3451/DC/1/8

Other Identifiers

DC/1/13 (local reference number)

Date(s)

2014 (was creation date of)

Record Resource Extent

1 Blu-ray (28.2 GB)

Scope and Content

Blu-ray disc containing a black and white Sing-Channel video installation 'Realm of Reverberations' by Chen Chieh-jen. 

The film-based project looks at the history of the Losheng sanatorium, an area in New Taipei City used to confine people with Hansen’s Disease (leprosy), the ongoing struggle to preserve the building by long term residents and the local population from redevelopment. The four-channel video features narratives related to the history of the sanatorium from old residents (tree planters), a young woman who accompanies sanatorium residents (Keeping Company), a hospice nurse who lived in Mainland China during the Cultural Revolution (The Suspended Room), and a fictional political prisoner who travels through Taiwanese history from the Japanese colonial period to the present (Tracing Forward). The characters discuss what they believe will be the inevitable outcome for the building as the artist re-narrates the history of the building, imagining new forms through which a ‘people’s history’ of the building might be told and examining an epic moment of contemporaneity.

Access and Use

Representation Type

mediated ➔ digital

Conditions on Access

The video works are available to all freely available to all bona fide researchers to view within the Archive & Library search room.

Conditions on Use

The original videoworks are the copyright of Chen Chieh-jen. The videoworks are held by the Centre for viewing purposes only. Request for copies of the works will be referred to the copyright holder.

Related Information

Keywords & Terms

two-dimensional moving images ; vob ; Han (Traditional variant) ; Latin (script) ; films (visual work) ; video art ; Copyright Restricted ; digital ; On site

Descriptive Note

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