An extension of the research behind Princess of Eight Treasures, Acht (Dutch for "eight") investigates how collective memory, myth-making, and personal narrative feed on one another within the theater of history. Collaborating with drag and medieval costume designers "The Night Mare Disorder," the project centers on the imagery of a shipwreck—translating Taiwanese religious symbols and saturated color palettes through a Dutch gaze into a haunting spatial installation.

The performance's core script is a wild archival rewrite: an AI-generated text weaves Taiwanese soap operas, fringe rumors, and Dutch ghost stories, anchored by a real historical synchronicity—the 2014 discovery of 17th-century garments from a North Sea shipwreck, the exact year the artist migrated from Taiwan to the Netherlands. Projected as dreamlike animation, the text becomes a manic spoken-word spiral performed live on stage.

As the auto-ethnography unfolds, the Princess's monologue shifts language with each colonial era—Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin—each historical layer speaking in its own tongue. Realizing the legendary Princess never actually existed, the artist descends into madness and triggers a live shamanic trance—revealing the ultimate truth: the displaced goddess is a mere projection of the artist themself. In a gripping climax, the artist sings a rewritten Dutch national anthem in Mandarin, crying out to "go home" while flaying this collective illusion of history and speech with their bare hands, confronting an absolute void born of pure projection and non-existence.



作為《八寶公主》研究脈絡的延伸，《Acht》（荷蘭文的「八」）探討集體記憶、民間神話與個人敘事如何在歷史的夾縫中相互吞噬。計畫與變裝服飾與中世紀服裝設計師雙人組「The Night Mare Disorder」合作，以「沉船異象」為核心，由荷蘭創作者的視角重構台灣宗教符碼與色彩，打造充滿感官張力的空間裝置。

展演的核心文本是一場歷史重編：AI 將台灣鄉土劇、八卦野史與荷蘭鬼魂傳說熔為一爐，並扣合一段真實的歷史巧合——2014年科學家在北海沉船中撈出17世紀奢華服飾，而那一年，正是藝術家離開台灣、抵達荷蘭的生命轉折點。文本化為動畫投影，藝術家在現場展開一場肉身的瘋狂碎念。

隨著身世自述的推進，荷蘭公主的獨白依序以對應各殖民時代的語言發聲——荷語、日語、中文——每一層歷史用它自己的腔調開口。藝術家識破了這位公主在正史中根本不曾存在，在極度混亂中當場起乩。這場薩滿式的狂喜揭示了終極真相：那位流離的公主，正是藝術家自己的投射。在最高潮處，藝術家以中文詠唱改寫後的荷蘭國歌，在「要回家」的歌聲與吶喊中，親手剝落這場由歷史與語音構築的集體幻相，直面一切皆為投射、根本不存在的虛無本體。