Anata
Chikako Yamashiro | 2022 | 5 min.

Anata is a single-channel version of Chikako Yamashiro’s homonymous 8-channel video project. From a fixed angle above the water, the camera frames the spectacle of impressive waves. The water stretches, contracts, and builds again to form a mountainous wave before dissolving into a vast water valley. Shot in black and white to the sound of the waves, the work beautifully captures the eternal rhythm of the sea and becomes a powerful metaphor for natural life cycles, fluctuations of energy, and emotions that balance each other over time.

Lanyu – Three Stories
Charwei Tsai | 2012 | Tao, with Chinese and English subtitles |12 min.

Lanyu – Three Stories brings alive the relationship between nature, spirituality, and ritual through a portrait of the Tao tribe on Lanyu Island in Taiwan. It consists of three videos, Lanyu Seascapes, Shi Na Paradna, and Hair Dance. Lanyu Seascapes captures the unpredictability of the sea that the natives have learned to live with, from moment to moment. Shi Na Paradna tells the story of a boy who lost his soul to the sea and his grandfather’s ritual of calling it back. Hair Dance features Tao tribe women who perform a ritualistic dance—using their sensuous long hair to emulate the movement of waves—to ensure the safe return of their men from the sea.

What the Land Remembers
Kelvin Kyong Kun Park | 2025 | 10 min.

What the Land Remembers is a hypnagogic portrait of the ancient villages of Andong, now lying beneath the waters of a dam. The film invites viewers into an uncanny emotional passage between tradition and contemporaneity—into a threshold where sleep and awakening, pleasure and discomfort, memory and forgetting intertwine.

The Boat People
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn | 2020 | Filipino, English, with English and Filipino subtitles | 20 min.

Set in an unspecified future at the precarious edge of humanity’s possible extinction, The Boat People tells the story of a girl and four boys who travel the seas. They collect stories of a world they never knew through objects that survived. They replicate those in wood to piece together and understand history, and burn them afterwards. When they arrive in a place formerly known as Bataan, they discover the coast’s complex history through objects from a refugee crisis, a world war, and some of the earliest migrations in human history. An encounter with a mysterious statue-head by the sea opens a dialogue on human existence across time and unveils the reason for the children’s burning of the wooden objects.

The Sprite Keepers of Makuta’ay
Yen-Chao Lin | 2019 | Mandarin, Amis, with English subtitles | 10 min. 57 sec.

Shot on location in the traditional Amis territory, The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay travels through villages on the east coast of Taiwan, where nature, colonisation, and population migration merge to create a unique spiritual landscape. The hand-processed super 8 unravels mixed-faith expressions, from Daoist ritual possession to Presbyterian funeral, from personal prayers to collective resistance, all the while attempting to trace the memories of past Amis sorcerers.

Seaweed Story
ikkibawiKrr | 2022 | Korean | 5 min. 22 sec.

Seaweed Story portrays a group of Korean ‘sea women’ divers called the haenyeo. They were once successful merchants harvesting marine products such as the edible seaweed Ecklonia cava and herbal remedies from the surrounding waters. Part of a century-long tradition, the haenyeo were the primary earners in their families. The video pays homage to the small group of remaining sea women, celebrating their unique knowledge of maritime life and deep connection with the sea.

Chikako Yamashiro (b. 1976, Japan) works in photography, video, and performance to investigate the history, politics, and culture of her homeland, Okinawa. In recent years, she has taken the issue of Okinawa as a universal proposition and has used the overlooked histories and people of the East Asian region as her subject matter. Her activities and thinking focus on the themes of identity, the boundary between life and death, and the inheritance of the memories and experiences of others.

Charwei Tsai (b. 1980, Taiwan) lives and works between Paris and Taipei. Her work tackles geographical, social, and spiritual topics and encourages viewer participation. The human-nature relationship and the entanglement of cultural beliefs, spirituality, and transience is at the core of her practice. She has presented her work in numerous international exhibitions and biennales; recent exhibitions include Islamic Art Biennale, Jeddah (2024); 15th Gwangju Biennale (2023); Climat: quelle culture pour quel futur? Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care: On Care and Resilience, Radio Lumbung, Documenta XV (2022). Her works are in public and private collections such as Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and M+, Hong Kong.

Kelvin Kyung Kun Park (b. 1978, South Korea) is a Seoul-based artist who works primarily in film and video, photography, and installation. Park’s works often deal with the subject of the unconscious and its relations with technology, and the subjectivity of individuals within the collective. His award-winning films and installations have been shown at numerous films festivals and exhibitions, including Busan International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Taipei Biennale, and Sharjah Biennial.

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (b. 1976, Vietnam) lives and works in Ho Chi Min City. His collaborative, research-based practice and commitment to communities that have suffered traumas related to colonialism, war, and displacement explores the power of memory as an act of political resistance. He employs storytelling as a means for healing and solidarity, and a way to address history and its haunting ghosts. He works primarily with moving images and sculpture, and often a combination of both. Tuan’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, including the Asia Pacific Triennial 2006, the Whitney Biennial 2017, the Sharjah Biennial 2019, and Berlin Biennale 2022.

Yen-Chao Lin (b. 1983, Taiwan) is a Taipei-born Montreal-based artist. Her work explores diverse forms of spirituality and religion, and all things sensed but not necessarily seen. As a natural history enthusiast, she gathers specimens of mineral, botanical, animal, and industrial origins as a material for her artmaking and storytelling. Her installations, sculptures, and experimental films testify her intuitive, tactile, and collaborative approach to artmaking. Her work has been exhibited in museums and at film festivals around the world.

ikkibawiKrrr (founded in 2021) is a visual research band that explores the connection between natural phenomena, humanity, and ecology. The current members are Gyeol Ko, Jungwon Kim, and Jieun Cho. Named after ikkibawi, a moss-covered rock, and krrr, an onomatopoeic expression for a rolling stone, ikkibawiKrrr incorporates the resilient nature of mosses into their practice. Recent major exhibitions include Aichi Triennale (Aichi, 2025), Manifesto of Spring at ACC (Gwangju, 2025), the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (Seoul, 2023), the 14th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, 2023), the 40th EVA International (Limerick, 2023), DMZ Exhibition: CHECKPOINT (Paju, 2023), and documenta 15: Lumbung (Kassel, 2022).