From Now On

Introduction of Yunjie Liao’s works “ The State of Fluidity” and “Sleeping and Awake”:

 

The images of the state of fluidity are not only local, but also global. The space called home may be a station, a port, a street, a park, in a car, in the house of others, by a river or in a mountain, or even couches all over the world. But apart from the sleeping patterns and the continuously carried luggages, the diverse appearances of the people in the state of fluidity are no different from those of people with fixed residences. Due to the collective diaspora, forced evictions, capitalization, or the individual lackness of the limited options for lifestyles, “home” has become a state of fluidity, and the current possession of home does not guarantee its forever existence; humans’ desire for a shelter comes from both the pursuit and the escape.

 

Through this residency program, Yunjie Liao continued to track and listen to the state of fluidity, her long-term attention. The people in the state of fluidity, including her, shared their items in the luggage with each other, and exchange each other’s life stories “on the road”. In the process of picking up, sharing, and exchanging, people in the state of fluidity with different backgrounds and social-economical status spread out their inalienable memories, current passion, or anticipation for the next journey. In the exhibition, every object and its corresponding story in “The State of Fluidity” marks the original sentence written or narrated by people in the state of fluidity, and a trace of their life choice. “Sleeping and Awake” features The Sound of Home, The Shape of Home, The Light of Home, The Broken Landscape and The Handbook of Mutual Assistance in the State of Fluidity. It aims to imagine the possibilities in Taipei City under the transnational state of fluidity, and to explore the core meaning of home, the similarity of lives between that of ourselves and that of others, and the possibility or incompetence of mutual understanding.