The Day of the Dead
2020
performance
Descendant of Arachne
The Venue, Taipei, Taiwan
performance
Descendant of Arachne
The Venue, Taipei, Taiwan
"What is the greatest miracle in the world?"
"Every day, people pass away, yet we live as if we are immortal. That is the greatest miracle."
--Mahabharata
Within the video performance, I wore grave clothes for a day in my daily life. It is what traditional Taiwanese people would garb upon death. On this day, I used paper offerings as my personal belongings. These paper offerings were burnt by the living relatives and friends as offerings to the dead. Within my portfolio, “A Day of the Dead”, one of the implications of the dead is the representation of a person wearing death. The other meaning is a living person who has yet to realize he/she will die.
"Every day, people pass away, yet we live as if we are immortal. That is the greatest miracle."
--Mahabharata
Within the video performance, I wore grave clothes for a day in my daily life. It is what traditional Taiwanese people would garb upon death. On this day, I used paper offerings as my personal belongings. These paper offerings were burnt by the living relatives and friends as offerings to the dead. Within my portfolio, “A Day of the Dead”, one of the implications of the dead is the representation of a person wearing death. The other meaning is a living person who has yet to realize he/she will die.
Kai Chieh Chang