Echoes of Language Project
Echoes of Language is a cross-disciplinary, interactive art project. For the project participants are asked to choose words of personal significance to them, words that convey value and life experiences. People write such words by hand onto a printed shape of a human body that is incorporated into the installation or into objects that carry a metaphoric implication (such as a door, a lantern, or a kite); they later discover their words as part of the art work.
The process thus enables the art to serve as a platform that engage people who are normally outside of the arts community in the process of art creation.
Echoes of Language was created for the individual artist grant award from the Cultural Art Council of Houston and Harris County in 2005. It was featured in the Bayou City Arts Festival by the Houston Arts Alliance in 2011. In 2014 the project was funded in part by a grant from the city of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance for the Taiwanese Heritage Society of Houston
Echoes of Language is a cross-disciplinary, interactive art project. For the project participants are asked to choose words of personal significance to them, words that convey value and life experiences. People write such words by hand onto a printed shape of a human body that is incorporated into the installation or into objects that carry a metaphoric implication (such as a door, a lantern, or a kite); they later discover their words as part of the art work.
The process thus enables the art to serve as a platform that engage people who are normally outside of the arts community in the process of art creation.
Echoes of Language was created for the individual artist grant award from the Cultural Art Council of Houston and Harris County in 2005. It was featured in the Bayou City Arts Festival by the Houston Arts Alliance in 2011. In 2014 the project was funded in part by a grant from the city of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance for the Taiwanese Heritage Society of Houston
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/living/article_181b1316-ec2b-58ae-be44-77c303e925b3.html
https://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibition/the-big-show-2018/
https://lawndaleartcenter.org/exhibition/the-big-show-2021/
Handwritten words of
Personal Significance
for 120+ Persons
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In this light, I see....... a mother, a child, a refugee, a scientist, a monk, a soldier ….. .. a place and a time.
The Talking Door Located next to a War Memorial, the Talking Door is a piece of public art and an interactive platform.
The Talking Door stems from the idea that every new experience in life can be represented by the image of a door.
When such a “door” is composed of people’s hand written words in various languages, it becomes a meeting place for people’s words and their meanings. And it echoes the encounters of human experiences in all languages.
The Talking Door is also an evolving mirror. People will come to the site, pondering on the images and the significance of the words on it; they will be invited to write their own words – words that are rooted in their values and life experiences.
They will come back another day, to rediscover their words of personal importance already on this public piece of art. Along with their words will be those of many others, words in various languages and reflecting various ideologies.
All of them will be covering the door, an exploration and probing of the essence of commemoration
not only of the Vietnam War but also of conflicts around the globe.
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The “Talking Door” next to Houston’s Vietnam War Memorial
is a site where people can share the “essence” of commemoration with stories of survival from,
not only Vietnam, but also from conflicts around the globe.
The doors exist in the process of reflecting each other.
As an interactive piece of work, the design also allows members of
the hosting organizations to participate in the process of art making.
OPEN THE DOOR, originated by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts
and the Paris art collective, 9eme Concept.
is a site where people can share the “essence” of commemoration with stories of survival from,
not only Vietnam, but also from conflicts around the globe.
The doors exist in the process of reflecting each other.
As an interactive piece of work, the design also allows members of
the hosting organizations to participate in the process of art making.
OPEN THE DOOR, originated by the Texan-French Alliance for the Arts
and the Paris art collective, 9eme Concept.
The Talking Lantern
100 personal Significance on a Glowing Sphere
For the glowing sphere to the left,
I arranged hundreds of shapes of human bodies
and their attached words
-- as if they are rows of cells
coded by their DNAs
lining up in an organism.
No one knows how the words
from such complex ideologies bind together.
Those are the words
silently spoken around us every day.
For the glowing sphere to the left,
I arranged hundreds of shapes of human bodies
and their attached words
-- as if they are rows of cells
coded by their DNAs
lining up in an organism.
No one knows how the words
from such complex ideologies bind together.
Those are the words
silently spoken around us every day.
Light box / Drop box setting.
Houston’s City Hall 2012.
Houston’s City Hall 2012.
MFAH, Florescence: Cosmos, Art by Invitation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2007
The Community Kite Project
The Sky Lantern Kite, Asia Society Texas center, 2012
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Asia-Society-celebrates-Houston-Center-opening-3483847.php
The Sky Lantern Kite, Children Museum of Houston, 2014
http://www.houston-taiwanese.org/cultural-events.html
Community Kite Project
A collaboration with NEA (National Endowments for the Arts)
Big Read and Harris county libraries, 2008
City Hall annex 2012
A collaboration with NEA (National Endowments for the Arts)
Big Read and Harris county libraries, 2008
City Hall annex 2012
