Title: Money cat
Media: Video, NTSC,
Length: 2 sec. looping video
Presentation: single monitor or projection with looping video
Maneki Neko (Money Cat)
the story:
The cat "Tama-chan" brings golds to his young master, who had a rich
family but becomes poor because of his gambling-hobby. The young
master decides to follow Tama-chan because it gets thiner and thiner,
and he wants to find out where it finds the golds. Once he realises
that Tama-chan prays to god to exchanges its body to gold, he regrets
his bad hobby but it was too late. He uses the last gold from
Tama-chan and quit his gambling-hobby, becomes rich again afterward.
this is one of the legen of this cat. although it's not the only one
but the "exchanging body to money" (as prostitution) idea comes into
my mind to make this piece.
The work shows two desire of human nature, Material (Money) and Sex
(Genital of a man). Since money was being created, the "artificial
desire" of human-beings was also created. Desire of possession causes
fights, wars, thieves, we say that war is bad, thieves must be
punished.
Sex as a nature desire, which is meant to reproduce generations, and
is defined by moral: porn is dirty, public naked is not allowed,
erected penis is not art (?).
The combination of these two desires, in this tradition symbol, can be
traced, was being used by the society, here is another history about
this cat:
-- One of the most plausible reasons for its rapid rise to popularity
in the Meiji Period involves the sex industry. In the secluded Edo
Period, during which Japan closed its doors to the outside world, an
indigenous "amusement" culture grew side by side with the expanding
power of the merchant class.
Special zones ("Yuukaku;" soap land in modern parlance) sprang up to
provide female companionship (prostitution) and other forms of
merriment. Many "houses of amusement" were equipped with a "good-luck
shelf" on which were displayed lucky charms in the shape of the male
sexual organ. Even today, various localities in Japan still hold an
annual fertility festival, during which a gigantic wooden penis is
paraded through the streets as an offering for good harvests and
prosperity. ---
"if I need money, I wing my dick", prostitution existes in everywhere,
art creation is manipulated by different factors which make artist
prostitute to the art market.
LAN Hungh Biograpy:
Graduated from Taiwan University of Arts and conservatory National of Rueil-Malmaison in France. Hungh's practice consists of performance, music, installations, videos and sculptures, explores the concept of the everyday and life's intimacies. With a mixture of culture his performance functions as a diary and incorporates music and movement of personal experience. His works have reached London, Taiwan, Tokyo, Berlin, Nice, Cologne, Paris, Qadar, Martinique, Switzerland and Italy.
Exhibitions and performances
2009
July 24th "SIGNALS_THROUGH_THE_FLAMES" group show, PHB art space, Berlin
July 10th "Particle Collision" group show, Galerie der Kunst, Berlin
Jun. "#4 Plastic" group show, Aqua Carré Kantine, Berlin
Jun. "Détournement Venise 2009" performance project, 53 Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Venice, Italy
May "#3 Ego" performance, Aqua Carré Kantine, Berlin
May "Knot" International Performance Festival, Georg von Rauch-Haus, Berlin
May "Reliquaries of Empires Dust" group show, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin
April "Untitled Star Performance", collaboration with Dovrat ana Meron at .HBC, Berlin
April [nomad / gomad] group show at Aqua-Carré, Berlin
April "Demolition", group show at .HBC, Berlin
Mar. "interzone" group show at Wolstenholme Project, Liverpool, UK
Mar. "Flowmarkt" performance at .HBC, Berlin
2008
Dec. "I'm Horny, Eltn John, and..." 3 days performance, .HBC Karl-liebknecht-Straße 9, 10178 Berlin
Dec. "21,59x27,94 Lettre à Bernard", groupe show, Gallery "Miss China Beauty", Paris
Nov. "Drawing" action at .HBC Kollektiv, Berlin
Oct. "Please do not disturbed" installation and performance, .CHB kollektiv, Berlin
Oct. "TAMAGOTCHI" one week performance project, .BHC kollektiv, Berlin
Oct. "Mallet Forest" performance for "La Nuit Blanche" with Liang Ya-hui, Coopérative, Paris
Oct. 2 Videos for spectacle multimedia "Écart de la poésie"and "La Montagne Tourbillonnante", La maison du culture du Monde, Paris
Jun. "Let's Burn" exhibition with Stephana Schmidt, Gallery-33, Berlin
May Video installation for Wang Sue-ya's music piece for percussionist Daniel Champolini, National concert hall, Taipei
May Video installation for Asia Pacific Quartet's concert, National concert hall, Taipei
April Installation for Chamber Music Works of Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Zhongshan Hall, Taipei
April "Drum and String" performance, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
Fev. "White hole" exhibition with Tsai Showzoo, Chambord, Taipei
Jan. "SOLOS" installation for solo percussion concert of Wu-shisan, National Taipei University of Arts
2007
"Untitled portraits, Untitled ocean" performance project of Isak Immanuel, Yuko Kaseki and Luigi Coppola, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
"Let The Children Use It" group exhibition, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
"Mixed" Group exhibition, Gallery "Miss China Lunch Box", Paris
"L'amour ne peut pas" Collaboration performance, Lunch Box, Paris
Tease Art Fair (with Gallery-33), group exhibition, Cologne, Germany
"Dance with me", solo performance for opening of Tease Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
Collaboration performance, Asian art museum, Nice, France
Collaboration performance for Toyota, Doha, Qadar
2006
Straw to Gold, Solo exhibition, Gallery-33, Berlin
“Sirens” solo performance, Gallery-33, Berlin
“Masque II” Solo performance with live music, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
“Masque I” Collaboration performance, Art-U Room Gallery, Tokyo
"Anonymous Drawings", group exhibition, Gallery Blütenweiß, Berlin
"Mon petit Poisson" Collaboration performance, Miss China Lunch Box, Paris
2005
"INTIMACY", group exhibition, Gallery “Campbell Works”, London
"La nuit noisy" collaboration performance, la Rue Française, Paris
"Man/ Women/ Chinese Opera" collaboration performance, Miss China Lunch Box, Paris
"Noyau II" Solo (accompaniment: National Taipei Orchestra), Zhongshan Hall, Taipei
"Chu-Go-Hua-Shen" collaboration performance, Dog-Pig art Café, Kao-hsung, Taiwan
"Area" Duet (accompaniment: National Symphony Orchestra) , National Taiwan Concert Hall, Taipei
"Chinese Noise Action" collaboration performance, Palais de Tokio, Paris
2004
"Blue" Solo photo projection, Glaz’art, Paris
"Art’ech" Group exhibition, Paris
"Memmoto", virtual Exhibition, "Nerve.com"
Curatorial
2009 July "SIGNALS_THROUGH_THE_FLAMES" with Shadow cast Organisation, Phb Art Space, Berlin
2009 Mar. "Interzone" group show, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, UK (http://sites.google.com/site/
2008 Dec~ 2009 May "TAOMAC - I, II, III" curatorial project for Gallery-33, Berlin (http://gallery-33.com/taomac/
2008 "Ohne Ohren" for Gallery-33, Berlin
Actor
2008 "Berlin loves you" a short film of Dagmar Weaver-Madsen, main actor
2007 "the secret of the Locksmith" a film of Bowel, main actor
2000 "After raining" a film of Andrew Yang, main actor
Other experiences
2008 Dec. Participate performance "Rotliebend: Read to Deconstruct " of Johanna Bruckner and Melissa Steckbauer, at space "Alberto Ukebana", Berlin
2006 Extra scenes and photos for German film "Zärtlichkeiten"
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