Video

Treasure Hill Camouflage

soJin Chun

2012, 02:00 minutes, Colour, Silent

TAPECODE 1049.04

soJin Chun’s Camouflage lightheartedly takes up the notion of assimilation through performances for video. Chun assumes various innocuous positions in the architectural and natural landscape of “Treasure Hill,” a heritage site in Taipei. In six short scenes the artist’s obscured body exposes the underlying correlation between culture, space, physicality, and belonging.

This video was conceived during a residency at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, Taiwan with the Traffic Jam Collective. Being of Asian-descent, the artist had a natural camouflage on the streets of Taipei being mistaken for a local or Chinese. This inspire the idea that Chun could blend into the urban landscape of the village playing with notions of physical homogeneity among the East Asian population.

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