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How to under-stand a poem?
2003
BY
WU Tzu-Ning
How to under-stand a poem?
2003
01 / 10

This work can be consider as a continuation of "Insomnia" in 2001. It also argue about intertextual and confrontation between literary creation and spatial art installation. The artist use mixed media again to create a strong personality of theatricality installation titled as "How to under-stand a poem?" There are covered with cultivate soil on the exhibition ground, a picnic table in the center is placing a pot of rosemary, a plate of raw meat sealed with transparent plastic glue, and a watering kittle above. On the walls surrounding are green cement paint handprints and footprints stained by cultivate soil, is left by the artist after the performance, and the video of performance is playing in the corner with a 15-inch television. On the screen, the artist is wearing a dark red long skirt, and she make handstand again and again against to the walls surrounding, the skirt is sliding down to the bottom, and the head and face is overshadowed under the skirt, revealing only legs and underpants holding high.

The poetry content of this work is not showing directly on the wall, but locked in one suitcase of her father's with password lock, and chained to one side of the picnic table in the center, on the other side of the picnic table, there is another suitcase with sketchbook and drawing tools locked in. Only when the audience try to unlock the suitcases on their own, they are able to get a glimpse of the contents in the suitcases.

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22 artworks / 75 exhibition
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Laza WU Tzu-Ning is a creator who plays variable roles in the art world and also keeps changing her styles in real life. We can see variety and diversity of Laza’s works as compounds of her multiple styles of creations. Mixed media installation wo ...
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KEYWORDS
WU Tzu-Ning, 2003-2004, New Media Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2013, New Media Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2019, New Media Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2011, New Media Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2001, Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2012-2014, New Media Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2003, Performance Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2005, Performance Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2011, New Media Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2000, Performance Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2013, New Media Art , Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2011, New Media Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2005, Video Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 2011, Video Art , New Media Art
WU Tzu-Ning, 1978-, New Media Art , Performance Art