Compound Eyes of Tropical

In this insect equivalent of a theatrical fine-dining experience, termite butchers, with musical accompaniment of a termite pianist, perform a ritualistic slaughter on a piece of power cable. The fact that their climate crisis-induced dietary choice also causes power outages in human cities is the proverbial cherry on the cable. A delightfully strange and pleasantly icky spectacle that combines costume play and animation. Eat up!

The line between life and death is deeply imprinted in my childhood, I remember a vivid memory of sunny days, a bucket of water almost full and a half-submerged new mouse in a cage wanting freedom, until it was exhausted and surrendered to inevitable death. The music used in this work is the German folk song Ach, wie ist’s möglich dann. In Taiwan folk culture the song was often performed at funerals, an interesting and absurd contrast to the song’s original use in the 1935 German literary film as the soundtrack for a love story. So Zhang choreographs a dance performed to this German folk song about death.

This "site-specific" animation works in "Eslite Book Art Studio" and "Fuzhou Art Village" ,made during the creation of in-store,Used 26 days in the bookstore collect 26 clues, randomly selected 13, and accord- ing to in-store shop in the observed period of readers, the occurrence of the phenomenon, reading books and articles, continuous painting images presented in writing to the store Kinks, made into 13 very short mini-drama unit and situations to concatenate dynamic way of painting their records and fantasy, and finally concentrated in store logs written to the image to become one of the units on theater happening here.

Timid Xiao Mu who’s often being bullied while his mother is not around because of her work. He always watches his Japanese monster movie alone, hoping that the silkworms he raises will emerge and become his favorite monster “Amola” with beautiful wings. However, Xiao Mu's expectations fail when his mother notices that what he really longs for is just pure companionship.