- DATE : 29/05/2025 29/05/2025
- TIME : 14:25–15:15
- VENUE : Online Event
2025 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Series
Time: 29 May 2025 14:15-15:15
Venue: 2.35 | Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-spotlight-taiwan-lecture-artist-hui-yu-su-tickets-1317205028699?aff=oddtdtcreator
Re-Shooting
Artist SU Hui-Yu (蘇匯宇)
In recent years, Su Hui-Yu has employed the approach of “Re-shooting” as a method and a metaphor to create new works. This method includes shooting new films based on old films, events, specific art pieces, or even a book. And as a result, the concept allows the artist to review and reflect on history, even to go further, open “the narrative”. Through this method, Su revisits past, unfinished, tabooed, and misunderstood figures and things. In this talk, Su will present how he uses his own way to achieve new revelations and unveils active historical viewpoints, addressing the connection between mass media, pop culture, memories of martial law, collectivism, nationalism, high-tech supply chain, and the post-colonial history of Taiwan and East Asia.
About the Speaker
SU (Su Hui-Yu 蘇匯宇) obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003 and has remained active in the contemporary art scene and film society ever since. His “Re-shooting” series centres around Taiwanese and East Asian history, memory, re-imagination, and transgression. His recent projects engage collective memories and ideologies while exploring the mechanisms of oppression and liberation tied to Taiwan’s cultural values.
SU’s works have been exhibited at renowned festivals, exhibitions and art institutes, including MOCA Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Kunsthalle Winterthur (Switzerland), San Jose Museum of Art (California, USA), Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Brazil), 1646 Art Space (Den Haag, The Netherlands) and Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China), the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, the Videonale (Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), RISING (Melbourne). In 2017, International Film Festival Rotterdam dedicated a retrospective to SU’s video works, while his video work Super Taboo had its world premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films. From the summer of 2023, Su’s new project The Space Warriors series has been tour exhibited at Hyundai ArtLab in Seoul for the finalist of the 5th VH Art Award, ARS Electronica in Linz, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz in Germany, and Casino Luxembourg. The same year in May, Su’s biggest museum solo The Trio Hall was exhibited in MOCA Taipei, curated by Eugenio Viola. In 2025, The Trio Hall participated in the Forum section of the Berlinale as a feature film (World Premier).
2003年自北藝大美術創作碩士班畢業後，蘇匯宇持續以錄像、攝影與裝置藝術來探討記憶、身體政治、戒嚴與意識型態建構的關聯，並長期借用電影工業中的「補拍」（Re-shooting）做為方法進行創作。蘇匯宇認為，透過「補拍」，我們可以為那些來自過去的、未完成的、被禁制的以及被誤解的東西進行新的解讀，以此開展積極的歷史觀點以面對未來。其作品曾先後展出於北美館、國立台灣美術館、台北當代藝術館、關渡美術館、高雄市立美術館、加州聖荷西美術館、康乃爾大學強森美術館、墨西哥尤麥克斯美術館（Museo Jumex）、德國波昂美術館（Kunstmuseum Bonn）、盧森堡卡西諾當代藝術中心（Casino Luxembourg）、溫特圖爾當代藝術館（Kunsthalle Winterthur）、曼谷藝術文化中心（BACC）、深港城市建築雙城雙年展、烏鎮當代藝術邀請展以及上海當代藝術博物館（Power Station of Art）等重要機構，並獲北美館、國美館、高美館、忠泰藝術基金會、驕陽基金會與澳洲白兔美術館典藏。2017年獲邀鹿特丹影展（IFFR）舉辦個人專題放映「Su Hui-Yu: The Midnight Hours」，此後三度入圍該影展的金虎獎短片競賽。2019年獲台新藝術獎年度視覺藝術大獎。2019年以〈The White Waters〉獲邀參加紐約PERFORMA表演藝術雙年展。2022年〈The White Waters〉獲邀墨爾本國際藝術節（RISING）演出，並於同年籌備其首部長片作品 《未來的衝擊》系列二部曲。2023年，蘇匯宇的新作〈太空戰士：酷兒時間、逃逸與靈魂的緊急疏散〉（The Space Warriors and the Digigrave）入圍第五屆現代汽車VH 數位藝術獎（5th VH Award），於現代汽車藝術基金會(Hyundai ArtLab)與德國開姆尼茲美術館（Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz）展出。同年五月，蘇匯宇於台北當代藝術館發表其首次大型機構個展《三廳電影》。2025年，《三廳電影》長片版入圍柏林影展。
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Trio Hall, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 1972, Toffler, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 The Cinema of Séance, 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands
Su Hui-Yu, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2020 The Women’s Revenge, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Wu-yeh-chang (午夜場), Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland.
Life, Pleasure and the Reading Room, TCAC, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 A Man After Midnight, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 A Slow Universe Comes with Something Like Death, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 The Upcoming Show, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Stilnox Home Video, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 My Last Will, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
The 5th VH Award Exhibition, Museum MACAN, Indonesia.
The 5th VH Award Exhibition, Singapore Art Week, Singapore.
2023 My Last Will, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany.
Art in Our Time: NTMoFA Collection Highlights, NTMOFA, Taichung, Taiwan.
ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria.
2022 Eye of the Storm, le lieu Unique, Nantes, France.
Szeto Keung And Friends Under His Wings, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2021 From Object to Cosmos, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Revenge Scenes (Su Hui-Yu & Cheng Hsien-Yu), Digital Art Center Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Xindian Boys Part 4- The Untitled Year, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan
Reframe: Fatal & Fallen, Asian Film Archive, Singapore.
Open Media Art Festival, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, Korea
2020 2nd Chroniques- the Biennale of Digital Imagination, Marseille, French
Re:Play, C-Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
Daisuke Miyatsu: 25 years of video art, Alien Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The Body Series: To the Unknown, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Short Film Programme: The Films We Remake, Asian Film Archive, Singapore
London Short Film Festival 2020, ICA, London, UK
2019 PERFORMA 19, New York, USA
Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
Spectrosynthesis II, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
ELYSIUM – The Spiritual Journey of YAO JUI CHUNG & SU HUI-YU, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia
#RTS: ReTranSens– 14th Digital Art Festival Taipei, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Dead End: The Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Courses of Action, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong
VIDEONALE 17: REFRACTED REALITIES, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Now Is the Time, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
2018 Taiwan Biennale: Wild Rhizome, NTMOFA, Taichung, Taiwan
Project Island Hopping – Reversing Imperialism: Lander, Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Metro Manila, Philippine
Scripted Reality, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
8th Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
Dream Maker, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Video on the Phone, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Tropical Cyclone, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Osiris and Ganesha, Marso, Mexico City, Mexico
Resting Transmissions, The Ryder Projects, London, United Kingdom
Broken Spectre，Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
A Nonexistent Place , JUT Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Pheong Chang Biennial, Pheong Chang, Korea
2016 Taiwan Biennial: The Possibility of an Island, NTMOFA, Taichung, Taiwan
Like Too Loud of Solitude, MoNTUE, Taipei, Taiwan
Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Our Eyes, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Asian Arts Space Network, Asian Cultural Complex, Gwangju, Korea
Through Beauty a Salute to Death─Chen Shun-Chu & the Xindian Boys, Paris Photo, Paris
Selected Festival
2025 Berlinale – Forum, Berlin, Germany.
2023 Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France.
2022 RISING, Melbourn, Australia.
CINEDANS 2022 Festival, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2021 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland.
Frameline 45, San Francisco, USA.
2020 Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 PERFORMA, New York, USA.
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland.
Frameline 43, San Francisco, USA.
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland.
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick, UK
2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland
BAFICI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vienna Shorts Festival (VIS), Vienna, Austria
Lovers Film Festival, Torino, Italy
AWARD
2021 Golden Harvest Award – The Special Jury Prize
2020 TaiShin Art Award
Golden Harvest Award – The Best Experimental Film
2017 “The Next Production Award” of Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development
2018 Kaohsiung Shorts (Kaohsiung Film festival)
2009 Asian Cultural Council (ACC) – Yageo Tech-Art Award
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2019 Awarded by Ministry of Culture, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA
2017 Vernacular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Apartment der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2013 Awarded by Ministry of Culture, Egon Schiele Art Center, Cesky Krumlov, Czech
2009 Harvestworks Digital Arts Center, New York, USA
2008 Awarded by Council for Cultural Affairs, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA
2004 Awarded by Council for Cultural Affairs, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA