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 and Taiwanese folk melodies 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.

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Live performance at Theatre of Gods and Monsters, Go Drag! Munich, schwere reiter, Munich 2024

Projection and hologram installation and performance at SEXYLAND 2024

Exhibition and live performance at PRO$PERITY NOW!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam 2023

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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

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

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