Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

As an active new media artist in recent years, Yao Chung-Han integrated sound and space installation, as well as live performances. His significant work transforms flickering lights of fluorescent light tubes and sound of light starters into sensuous and poetic experience in space. Everyday objects triggered bodily senses of audiences with colliding visual and audio experiences. These everyday objects turned on re-imagination of cold everyday matters by posing itself as an“para-organism”. Yao Chung-Han was regularly invited to participate in group shows or live performances organized by MOCA Taipei. However, Light On-Site is his first solo exhibition in MOCA, exhibiting new works responding to the space and flow of exhibition gallery in MOCA. Yao Chung-Han’s interpretation on sound art was realized as a co-exist practice of exhibition and performance. Light On-Site is not an exception either. The artist attempt to blur the lines between exhibition and performance, besides allowing space installation to become the core subject of performance, he also tries to explore ways to detach audiences from bodily experiences through the guidance of sound and sense of hearing. A question was raised. What is the next step of sound? Or more importantly, what is the next urge soon after the triggered expansion of mental and physical perception. Light On-Site utilizes immaterial noise and rhythm, together with many other elements such as concrete light tubes and changing lights, creating three different scenes for mental and physical experiences. Audiences will first encounter Dong-Z Dong-Z in Room 102, an interactive work. This work could be considered as an installation of “musical instrument of light”. By interfering light beam, audiences reversely control the on and off rhythm of fluorescent light as well as rhythm created by sound of the light starters. Furthermore, audiences will then experience the interactive relations of light, sound and behavior. Followed by the installation Current Light, consisted of 90 circle fluorescent lamps arranged and reconstituted in three numeric of hour, minute and second. Through the delay of numeric appearance due to physical characters of fluorescent lights, it creates a kind of experience in time where the seen does not equal to the known. While LLAP, an installation uses elements such as circle fluorescent lamp, laser lights and electronic sound occupies the long corridor. LLAP is the short form for Laser - Lamp - Audio Performance, also a work expanded from Yao Chung-Han’s previous work LLSP (Laser - Lamp - Sound Performance). Yao Chung-Han expanded sound into audio, guiding audiences consciously into thinking about the essence of sound in an open way. He also attempts to generate discussion on issues such as distinctions between accuracy and inaccuracy, conversation and transformation between digital signals and analog signals through minimal language and ensemble of fluorescent light and laser light. Besides three new works, Light On-Site will also feature a performance by Yao Chung-Han and Wang Fujui on 20th September. Videos will be shown in conjunction with the exhibition, including the first generation of LLAP performance, creating and working process of exhibited works, artist’s interview and documentation of live performances.