Castle, Valley, Anonymous Island and Their Return to the Moon宮殿、山谷、島嶼和他們的月球之旅
The work was commissioned by Asia Art Archive for the exhibition Fantasy of a Dialogue in 2017.
Jim disappeared into the forest on 26 March 1967. Inside his room in the Moonlight Villa, a bomoh found a script written with invisible ink, a book with sketches, some secret coordinates, plans to go to outer space, and mysterious sculptures imbued with inaudible spells. (notes: Jim is a reference to Jim Thompson, an American Silk Tycoon based in Thailand in his later life. Jim Thonpson disappeared when he was taking a stroll at Cameron Highland, Peninsula Malaysia in 1967. His life or death remains a mystery till today.
Production Team:
Cinematographers Chen Yow-Ruu, Au Sow Yee
吉姆於 1967 年 3 月 26 日消失於叢林中。在他位於月光別墅的房間裡，巫師找到了以隱形墨水書寫的腳本、素描筆記、一些秘密的座標、往外太空的計畫，以及附著了聽不見之咒語的神秘雕塑。
(筆記:吉姆以吉姆・湯普森[Jim Thompson]為原型，泰國的美籍絲綢大亨。 吉姆・湯普森於 1967 年在馬來半島金馬倫高原散步時失蹤，他活著與否至今都還是 一個謎。)
Production Team:
攝影:陳侑汝、區秀詒
about the artist /
Born in Kuala Lumpur, Au Sow Yee now lives and works in Taipei. AU’s works focuses mainly in questioning, exploring as well as expanding the relation between images, image making, history, politics and power, through video installation and other mediums. A finalist for the 2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize, Sow-Yee is one of the guest writers for online magazine No Man’s Land and co-founded Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective in 2017.
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