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Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang

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Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism, cyberfeminism and digital materialism. Her dance films often derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of (non-)human existence, with a focus on collective mourning and digital intimacy.

My Favorite News Goes Nuclear
My Favorite News Goes Nuclear - The work consists of two parts: a stylized content farm website and a live performance. Created with the help of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, the website revolves around themes of “irradiated food,” and “health and wellness.” It offers a deluge of eye-catching headlines to lure viewers into clicking. As the website receives more clicks, it becomes increasingly fragmented until it eventually disappears, transforming into a selfie-camera mode—an analogy for an echo-chamber. The performer consumes the website in a mukbang (eating livestream) style, turning eating into a spectacle. By using a queer body to do the act of eating is also a reappropriation of the 'male gaze' in mukbang as some of which focus on young and cute Asian girls eating colorful candies in a sexually suggestive manner. The artwork uses the artist body and recycled and editable papers to materialize content farm website. At the end of the exhibition period, the website and its content is eaten out. It is also a metaphor to “clean” the polluted dataset. 2024, website and performance Created by Chen Jhen, Hsiang-Yun Huang, Wei-An Chen, Tseng Chih Wei, Tzu-I Yang Supported by Stimuleringsfonds NL Exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum and panke.gallery website link: https://my-favorite-news-goes-nuclear.web.app/ Full Documentation: https://hackmd.io/@counter-archive/entry
Narrow Gate
Narrow Gate - The film is based on my poem about a young girl's fear of sexuality in a misogynistic world. Struggling between body and spirit, she is facing her fears of being objectified and the paradoxically sweet violence of a love relationship in which she eternally returns to the narrow gate of love. The metaphorical scenes of suicide and rebirth occur in-between dream and reality. The scenes of a girl hugging a tree, floating/dying in a swimming pool, dancing in the forest, and being stuck in a crowded toilet comprise the life-death cycle of her struggles. These scenes form a notion of time-image, where time is circular. The film can be played in loop, returning back to the first scene of the narrow gate in the public toilet, again and again.
When the party is about to end
When the party is about to end - The audiences became possessed by a young Taiwanese cinephile, and were led to his last party in a cinema before his suicide in Paris. The cinema bears the weight of death, jumping between a party, a funeral, a cemetery in dreamscapes. The film mourns him and every spectre haunted in the cinema.
Faces of Passing Love
Faces of Passing Love - Born from the director’s acrostic poem about intimate memories of lost and unrequited love, the film mourns for past lovers through obsolete technology—a repeatedly projected slideshow, where eyes open and shut, mouths whisper and fall silent, tears linger and poised to fall. Together we gradually bury the unspoken confession in a film fated to endlessly replay and can be watched in a loop forever. 
Toyboi
Toyboi - ToyBoi is an artistic project created by Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang, Claudia Oliveira, Gema FB Martín and Lotte Louise de Jong in the context of CODE 2024. ToyBoi reflects on the patriarchal infrastructure of deepnude technology such as AI undressing tools. These tools are often used to generate non-consensual nudity and disproportionately target women. While these tools effectively strip women, they often fail to undress men, resulting in images with distorted and deformed genitalia. We display these failed images on knick knacks (calendar, strip mags, lighters) that traditionally have depicted naked women to create dialogues about male gaze and gender-based violence. Website: toyboi.click
Lonely Screens
Lonely Screens - The project investigates how a screen-mediated environment influences social relationships, mental health and wellbeing of expats living in the multicultural and cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam. The project includes an exhibition, two public performances and workshops. The workshops were carried out to engage with Amsterdammers and immigrants. Open Sensation Workshop explores how to do yoga with your cellphones and finding your “balance”. It experiments on how to heal digital anxiety by creatively doing yoga with cellphones to reclaim our relationship with addictive technology. Talk to Me with PMs, audiences printed out their IG account before entering the exhibition space and spread it across the space. They were invited to message each other silently. It creates a situation where everyone is in the same physical space but could only connect through cell phones. This intimate yet distant social experience, weaving between the physical and the digital realm, provokes us to rethink our social relationship mediated by the materiality of screens and the logic of social media. A performance video features recordings of a mouth, fingers, and eyes touching the cellphone camera in a sensual and sexual manner with extreme close-ups. The footage was transformed into a cellphone-bike installation, which biked through the streets of Amsterdam, moving past large street advertisement screens. Hsiang-Yun Huang and Jiao Jiao Li Participatory workshop, performance video Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Orange Express, BINXG Association .
Mango Commons Project
Mango Commons Project - The project features a participatory website and a theater that reenact stories of diasporas and guides the audience into the colonial histories and trees of the neighborhood around a non-profit co-working space, where people collectively care for both the space and its mango trees. Through a year-long workshop process, local residents also participate in creating the piece. The theater piece ends in a walking tour in front of a mango tree along side with a website, Mango Ram. It imagines a scenario where the the once amnesia tree caused by colonialism has the possibility to become a cyborg and equipped with “temporary memory storage.” Historical poems and archival materials about mango trees, and audiences memories invoked by the theater piece are all fed into its dataset, enabling it to generate AI poems shown on the website. Audiences can also watch live-streams of the mango tree and contribute to the dataset by leaving messages. The project experiments with online/offline hybrid curation and explores how to engage both local residents and global audiences simultaneously. It also explores how practices of commoning can be realized and documented through web design. 2024, participatory theater and website Curated by Hsiang-Yun Huang Mango RAM net art by Hsiang-Yun Huang, programming by Claudia Oliveria. Website: https://www.mangocommons.art/

When the party is about to end

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Locatie: Cinedance Festival at Eye Museum, ROLLOUT Dance Film Festival

Memory Punctum

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Locatie: Taipei Comtemporary Art Museum

MY FAVORITE NEWS GOES NUCLEAR

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Locatie: PANKE.GALLERY, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Distant.Gallery
In samenwerking met: Chen Jhen, Wei-An Chen, Tzu-I Yang, and Chih-Wei Tseng

My Favorite News Goes Nuclear combines a stylized content farm website with a live mukbang-inspired performance, highlighting how internet culture turns consumption into spectacle. Drawing parallels between eating streams and consuming fake news, the project shows how shocking or appetizing content fuels viral spread, feeding audiences and algorithms alike. It reveals the hidden labor and bodily toll behind endless demand in the overstimulated attention economy.

https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/feed-me-the-news/

Faces of Passing Love

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Locatie: Cinedance Festival at Eye Museum

The Circle of Mourning

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Locatie: Rotterdam Art Week

Toyboi

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Locatie: Ars Electronica Festival, Kikk Festival, IMPAKT.

Mango Commons

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Locatie: Taipei, non-profit coworking space (Believe in Next Generation Association)
https://www.mangocommons.art/

Lonely Screens

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Locatie: 4bid gallery
In samenwerking met: Jiao Jiao Li

Narrow Gate

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Locatie: Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Venice International Performance Art Week, 4 bid gallery, Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogn, Roll Out Dance Film Festival

Mondriaan Artist Start Grant

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