The film tells about a story of a woman from the city, who travels to the east coast of Taiwan and reveals the controversial projects of land development in the area. This string of development projects exploits the land and disregard environmental and social justice, sabotages resource utilization, ecology conservation and defies the right of indigenous people to live. The dispute has existed many years and remains unsolvable. It dissimulates the complicated interest conflicts among government, corporations and local mafia. At last, it ultimately becomes the fundamental structural problem of the society.

Fan Hsiao-Lan’s new video work, “The Revolutionary Road”, provides a new arrangement of gesture and forms of being in this island that is suppressed and struggled in between ideal and reality.

About the artist
Fan uses images and texts as the medium to explore the relationship among human being, society and nature. In the seemingly chaotic status, an artist contemplates and touches on contemporary issues based on sensibility. Because through experiences of bodily movement, desires simultaneously hang between the identity of an artist/ human being as well as human being towards society and nature. This concept involves a complex (ambiguous) identity with human beings/ society/ nature. It is not easily recognized by knowledge but in contrast, it is enclosed in an experiential atmosphere. In the process of reexamining and reconsidering the possibilities of the texts, which then proceed to exploration of collective experience or social issues, in effort to reflect the complex and intricate relationships between power and society. Fan has participated in many local and international exhibitions, including “Inevitable Vibrations” (Taipei Artist Village, 2012), “THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding” (Bangkok Art and Culture Center, 2012), “Taiwan Calling – The Phantom of Liberty/Elusive Island” (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2010). In 2012, she is resident artist at Maison Laurentine Artist in Residence, France and Asia New Zealand Foundation, Wellington, New Zealand. Fan currently lives and works in Taipei.

Courtesy of Chi-wen Gallery