Raw ⇆ Ripened ⇆ Happiness

PERFORMANCE | Hauptplatz 6
Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) (TW)

A set of stereotypes and problematic expressions subtly exist everywhere. This colonial viewing system is nuanced, microaggressions permeate society and slip off the tongue unchecked, perpetuating the colonial perspective. Unconscious biases spread a romanticized notion of the outsider: their otherness, their body, their cultural perspective. Indigenous bodies operating within this system, perhaps without a solid cultural identity, become a tourist body or a romanticized body. These actions stamp out non-materialized oral indigenous knowledge and stories and are leading to vulnerability.

Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) (TW)
Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) is a visual artist with performance and new media art practice, she is of Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal and Hō-ló descent and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. Following a Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Art at Simon Fraser University (Canada), Lin is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Through her practice and interest in language, identity, gender, and the environment, Lin seeks out new forms of understanding beyond the hetero-patriarchal status quo, using video, performance, cyberspace, and installation.