“The history of medicine is the history of people itself.” — Medical historian Fielding H. Garrison.
Is Taiwan’s history of medicine, in the same way, the history of the people of Taiwan?
From Taiwan’s historical epidemic, blackfoot disease, Hó I-sing Blackfoot Disease Clinic reflects the history of 1950s south-western Taiwan to the past and the contemporary. As blackfoot disease causes continuous amputation, historical colonization of various regimes have mentally affected Taiwan in the same way. The lack of privacy has given the society no choice but an incomplete being. Do we have the proper prosthesis to walk decently in the amputated modern society, or is it just all in our head?
Ming Baï Lab
Ming-Chieh LEE & Baï LEE are a choreographer and video artist duo. The duo has been co-creating with a “body⇄video” text, in which they seek to explore the ingenious overlap between their life regrets and the historical field through moving in fieldwork. They perform in interdisciplinary art forms, with the original intention of repairing memory wounds.
Their collaborative art projects "Hey! Where to Stop Along the Way?“ - Image Choreography Exhibition (2021) and "Summer Toaster" (2022) were nominated for the 20th and 21st Taishin Arts Awards respectively. In 2023, the establishment of Ming Baï Lab presented the self-curated and performance and space based theatrical series of work "Over the Trouble Waters," featuring four different types of performances over a three-week period. The judges commented on the "possibility of interdisciplinary exhibition of contemporary art in Taiwan and the opening of a new perspective on micro-curation," awarding them the Special Prize of the Taipei Fringe Festival in 2023.
Curation/Production: Ming Baï Lab
Project Initiate/Concept/Text/Performer: Baï LEE
Performance Design and Performer: Ming-Chieh LEE
Sound Design/Composer and Performer: Lin-Shuang CHEN
3D Video and Visual Executive: Wei-Hsuan HUNG
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