Alum Xiaowei Wang Interviews ATC Speaker Jen Liu
Alum Xiaowei Wang interviews ATC Speaker Jen Liu for Bomb magazine!
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On an unusually cold December day in Taipei, I arrived at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum to see Jen Liu’s installation, The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, part of the Taipei Biennial 2023: Small World. Two paintings featuring grotesque yet cartoonish dangling eyeballs, long nails, and pink legs hang outside a darkened room that plays a video to a rapt audience. A requiem for the false promises of globalization and the last moments of labor-activist resistance, the video moves from a woman seemingly nonplussed about a new life underwater to a gory, shimmering, mermaid body horror. Viewers are pointed toward the Pacific and the ways different bodies bear the brunt of making our technological world into being.