踏蛋踏蛋 ta dan ta dan
2019 | 15 min | mixed media
a time-based installation in collaboration with jewelry artist Tai-yi Lin
‘ta dan ta dan’ is the repetitive Chinese Mandarin pronunciation of ‘踏蛋’, which can be roughly translated as ‘walking/stepping on the egg’.
This work is collaborative project with Lin’s jewelry automata and poem, Skating On the Poached Egg, in which Lin portraits the unbalancing feeling of trying to fit in a foreign metropolitan city.
The installation incorporates Sheu’s diary film projections* and a paper sculpture to create a temporary room of one’s own.
*diary film includes super 8 films from 2019 Lunar New Year in Taiwan, and digital film from phone archive (2016 - 2019) in the US.
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Skating On the Poached Egg
Tai-Yi Lin
Being balanced while skating on the poached egg
is tough sometimes a forward swizzle like hugging
with the mouth of October sometimes a backward wiggle like kissing
with the arms of s'more so cooling so warm
I dip and hop I hop and dip ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
from both sides coining balance while skating
on the poached egg ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
在水波蛋上滑行
林太乙
水波蛋是紐約這座城市，
它那搖擺起伏的誘人律動，
孕育出紐約人彈性敏捷的動態日常線條。
我們戒慎恐懼，任由它向我們冷嘲熱諷，
我們悠然自得，任由它對我們赤誠以待；
試圖不狼狽地
穩住重心。
︎presentation:
8 pm to 11 pm, June 29 & 30, 2019
AlterWork Studios30-09 35th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11106
2019 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, New York
This project is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
2019 | 15 min | mixed media
a time-based installation in collaboration with jewelry artist Tai-yi Lin
‘ta dan ta dan’ is the repetitive Chinese Mandarin pronunciation of ‘踏蛋’, which can be roughly translated as ‘walking/stepping on the egg’.
This work is collaborative project with Lin’s jewelry automata and poem, Skating On the Poached Egg, in which Lin portraits the unbalancing feeling of trying to fit in a foreign metropolitan city.
The installation incorporates Sheu’s diary film projections* and a paper sculpture to create a temporary room of one’s own.
*diary film includes super 8 films from 2019 Lunar New Year in Taiwan, and digital film from phone archive (2016 - 2019) in the US.
︎
Skating On the Poached Egg
Tai-Yi Lin
Being balanced while skating on the poached egg
is tough sometimes a forward swizzle like hugging
with the mouth of October sometimes a backward wiggle like kissing
with the arms of s'more so cooling so warm
I dip and hop I hop and dip ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
from both sides coining balance while skating
on the poached egg ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
在水波蛋上滑行
林太乙
水波蛋是紐約這座城市，
它那搖擺起伏的誘人律動，
孕育出紐約人彈性敏捷的動態日常線條。
我們戒慎恐懼，任由它向我們冷嘲熱諷，
我們悠然自得，任由它對我們赤誠以待；
試圖不狼狽地
穩住重心。
︎presentation:
8 pm to 11 pm, June 29 & 30, 2019
AlterWork Studios30-09 35th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11106
2019 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, New York
This project is made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.