New York-based photographer, Daniel Lee, will exhibit Origin, a video installation about the evolution of the species and 108 Windows, which is based on the legend of the 108 Beings of the five underworlds from the Hanshan Temple in China. At the tone of a bell, a computer-altered image of a human face combined with an animal will be projected in a darkened room. Lee's trans-species images evoke the mapping of the human genome and the dangerous territory into which technology is leading us. The tone of the bell perhaps then becomes a warning signal.
Cheang Shu-Lea, who cast a porn film at TFAM for the Taipei Biennial 2000, will exhibit her interactive futuristic project Garlic = Rich Air. In the year 2030, all global currencies have crashed, leaving garlic as the only legitimate currency. Signing on to the Web gives one 10,000 Garlic Creditos which can be exchanged for real cloves of fresh Italian-grown garlic. Several computers and plasma screens will be installed so that viewers can participate in this online game which links the global economy, stock market trading, Internet technology, consumption and sci-fi fantasy.
Lee Ming-Wei will exhibit The Sleeping Project, a conceptual interactive work where the intimacy of sleep shared with a different stranger takes place every night for two weeks. The room will contain two beds that combine the design elements of a Ming Dynasty luohan bed and a gondola. Lee and his chosen guest will spend the night together in the Prigione, and, in exchange for a good night's sleep, the guest is invited to display his or her personal items in one of the fourteen cabinets for the remainder of the exhibition.
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