New Media

2016

單頻道錄像10分鐘，尺寸視展示空間大小而定

Lin Tai-Chou (b. 1968, Tainan) studied sculpture at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts), and later earned an MA in Film and TV Production from Edinburgh Napier University. He is currently a professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. Lin began his career in installation art but later became a cross-disciplinary multimedia and film artist. His works span fiction films, experimental videos, and commercials, and have received recognition at the Golden Harvest Awards, Taipei Film Awards, Taiwan International Documentary Biennale, Venice International Film Festival, Shanghai Television Festival, and the US Golden Eagle Awards. His films have been shown at major film festivals and art museums both in Taiwan and abroad.
In early 2015, Lin joined an anti-air-pollution environmental group. He began using protest materials and video documentation as tools in the fight against industrial pollution—this work is one such example. The video juxtaposes scenes of air and water pollution in Taiwan, denouncing the economic system that has become inseparable from petrochemical development. Lin weaves in religious texts from the Bible and Buddhist sutras to reflect on the hidden code in the title “PM2.5.” He draws a philosophical parallel between PM2.5 fine particulate matter and the concepts of “dust” and “emptiness” in religion. The film ends with a Tibetan Buddhist ritual of dismantling a sand mandala, suggesting the impermanence of all things and elevating the environmental imagery to a metaphysical level.

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