P rincess of 8 T reasures .
八寶公主 PERFORMANCE / AUDIO-VISUAL / COSTUME
2023–2024
Princess of Eight Treasures reimagines a little-known folktale of a Dutch woman turned Taiwanese goddess,
fusing colonial histories with queer transformation. Across multiple iterations—including an NFT series, a shrine
installation with projected holograms, and a live audio-visual performance—the project acts as a migratory ritual
that shifts mediums while retaining its core mythic energy.
At its heart is a gender-fluid journey that unfolds through drag, movement, and ritual: from soft, nostalgic gestures to a radical rebirth as a male spirit medium. A jockstrap filled with rice is cut open— symbolizing both colonial extraction and the spilling of memory—while AI-generated narration and glitchy video collages conjure fragmented ghosts of trade, history, and longing.
Rather than seeking to retell a fixed myth, the work transforms it into a living space of speculation and embodiment, where personal and ancestral stories dissolve into performance. Over time, the themes and visual language of Princess of Eight Treasures grew into a new project, Acht, which expands this research into collective memory, folklore, and machine logic.
At its heart is a gender-fluid journey that unfolds through drag, movement, and ritual: from soft, nostalgic gestures to a radical rebirth as a male spirit medium. A jockstrap filled with rice is cut open— symbolizing both colonial extraction and the spilling of memory—while AI-generated narration and glitchy video collages conjure fragmented ghosts of trade, history, and longing.
Rather than seeking to retell a fixed myth, the work transforms it into a living space of speculation and embodiment, where personal and ancestral stories dissolve into performance. Over time, the themes and visual language of Princess of Eight Treasures grew into a new project, Acht, which expands this research into collective memory, folklore, and machine logic.
《八寶公主》重新想像了一段鮮為人知的民間傳說——一位荷蘭女性轉化為台灣神祇的故事,
並將殖民歷史與酷兒轉變(Queer Transformation)鎔鑄一爐。
透過多種媒介的持續迭代——包含 NFT 系列、帶有全息投影的廟宇神壇裝置,以及現場視聽表演——此計畫展開為一場遷移的儀式,在媒介的轉換之間持續蓄積其核心的神話動能。
計畫的核心是一場透過變裝(Drag)、身體跨越與儀式所展現的性別流動歷程:從溫柔、懷舊的身體姿態,激進地蛻變重生成為一位男性的乩身。
一件裝滿稻米的運動丁字褲(Jockstrap)被割開——象徵著殖民掠奪與記憶的傾瀉——與此同時,AI 生成的口白與殘缺的錄像拼貼,共同召喚出關於貿易、歷史與渴望的碎片幽靈。
這件作品無意重新敘述一個固定的神話,而是將其轉化為一個具備思辨與肉身實踐的活生生空間,讓個人與祖輩的故事在表演中融解。
隨著時間推移,《八寶公主》的主題與視覺語言進一步延伸出全新計畫《Acht》,將這項研究擴展至集體記憶、民間傳說與機器邏輯的邊界。
並將殖民歷史與酷兒轉變(Queer Transformation)鎔鑄一爐。
透過多種媒介的持續迭代——包含 NFT 系列、帶有全息投影的廟宇神壇裝置,以及現場視聽表演——此計畫展開為一場遷移的儀式,在媒介的轉換之間持續蓄積其核心的神話動能。
計畫的核心是一場透過變裝(Drag)、身體跨越與儀式所展現的性別流動歷程:從溫柔、懷舊的身體姿態,激進地蛻變重生成為一位男性的乩身。
一件裝滿稻米的運動丁字褲(Jockstrap)被割開——象徵著殖民掠奪與記憶的傾瀉——與此同時,AI 生成的口白與殘缺的錄像拼貼,共同召喚出關於貿易、歷史與渴望的碎片幽靈。
這件作品無意重新敘述一個固定的神話,而是將其轉化為一個具備思辨與肉身實踐的活生生空間,讓個人與祖輩的故事在表演中融解。
隨著時間推移,《八寶公主》的主題與視覺語言進一步延伸出全新計畫《Acht》,將這項研究擴展至集體記憶、民間傳說與機器邏輯的邊界。
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Venues
CREDITS
Concept: Echo Wang & Jing He
Video study & statue design: Jing He
Audio-visual, graphic, 3D design, hologram, performance: Echo Wang
Video study & statue design: Jing He
Audio-visual, graphic, 3D design, hologram, performance: Echo Wang
PRESENTATION
2024.07.14 [performance] Drag in populaire cultuur en kunst, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
2024.06.15 [exhibition] [performance] The Sarau, SEXYLAND, Amsterdam
2024.05.02 [performance] Theatre of Gods and Monsters, Go Drag! Munich, schwere reiter, Munich
2023.07.15 [performance] Shifting the Focus: Women Looking At Men, EYE Museum, Amsterdam
2023.07.13–15 [exhibition] [performance] PRO$PERITY NOW!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2024.06.15 [exhibition] [performance] The Sarau, SEXYLAND, Amsterdam
2024.05.02 [performance] Theatre of Gods and Monsters, Go Drag! Munich, schwere reiter, Munich
2023.07.15 [performance] Shifting the Focus: Women Looking At Men, EYE Museum, Amsterdam
2023.07.13–15 [exhibition] [performance] PRO$PERITY NOW!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam