Art in Traditional Market
Chunghwa Market
The Republic of Market
Te-Mao Lee
Multi-Channel Video
2020
The video artwork "The Republic of Market" is developed from Chunghua market. It is talking about on the business, after closing, flow, relationship, speed, smell, regional, food, people, transaction, absence, presence. Many stalls of Hualien classic food gathered in the market. There are several tiny passages into the market that is surrounded by streets and business buildings. Over the past few decades, a self-contained trading style and habits have been developed in the market.
The artwork through multiple screens is hung in the market, so that the audience's sight is interlaced with video images and market scene. The program control video playback timing. Interspersed flows between the abundant and multi-axis internal market relations, it seems like both a familiar and pulled out of the situation. Tripping link to the other side of the world "užupis" is seemingly related fictional (?) exist, thereby a layer of visual metaphors is formed, responding to the unique market sense of this place.
