Program 09:
Co-programmed by
Jo Ying Peng and Ariel Hou
Sunday, October 12, 2025
7:00 PM
CAM Lab, Harvard University
Admission: FREE with RSVP

CAMlab Harvard University
Lower Level, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Disordered Exposure, within Reverberations unfolds fractured temporalities and flickering archives, where the image trembles under the weight of situated currency. The program positions film as a site of epistemic dissonance, where works drift between trance and memory, algorithm and folklore, sculpture and hallucination. Disordered Exposure is not a symptom of failed clarity, but a deliberate misalignment—a refusal of singular readings and a confrontation with the limits of visibility. In their reverberations, these films summon not resolution, but recognition; not dominant narrative, but spectral inheritance.

I MAY DOZE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS
- Val Lee 李奧森
13', Digital, Color, 2021, Mexico

Single Copy - Hsu Che-yu 許哲瑜
21', Digital, color, 2019, Taiwan

The Lighting - Musquiqui Chihying 致穎
6:49, Digital, Color, 2021, Taiwan

Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a The Rocking Malaya
- Au Sow Yee 區秀詒
20', Digital, color, 2024, Malaysia

Total: 75:00

I MAY DOZE FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS
- Val Lee 李奧森
13', Digital, Color, 2021, Mexico

A group of people from different backgrounds fall into a doze at a fairly masculine old Mexican bar: security guards transporting a naked man, a boy giving secret signals, women carrying long-barreled guns, and rocks. The lines narrated by the performer are taken from the notes of a serial killer, political materials, and the dying words of Takijiro Onishi, the originator of kamikaze tactics.

Val Lee is a director and visual artist based in Taiwan. Trained in Filmmaking and Sociology at the State University of New York, Lee founded the collective Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel in 2008. Working across expanded cinema, performance, and image-making, Lee constructs temporal scenarios that reframe spatial conditions and spectatorship. Their practice examines systemic violence, war, and altered affective states. Rather than centering narrative, Lee creates perceptual fields where time disperses and presence flickers. Bodies appear and withdraw without clear intent, and events unfold in suspension. Perception is held in delay, drawing the viewer into nonlinear environments shaped by tension, ambiguity, and quiet disorientation. Lee’s video works have been exhibited internationally, including at SOMA Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, the Vernacular Institute (Mexico), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Grand Palais (France), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Gwangju Biennale, the Green Island Biennale, and the Taiwan Biennial. Live performances have been presented at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kyoto Art Center, the National Theater and Concert Hall (Taipei), and the Taipei Arts Festival, among others.

Single Copy - Hsu Che-yu 許哲瑜
21', Digital, color, 2019, Taiwan

I produce a digital-scan model and fiberglass cast of the body of the first Taiwanese conjoined twins. Through this process, I attempt to explore the workings of biopolitics and the functioning of one’s memory. The first conjoined twins underwent separation surgery in 1979 and the whole procedure was broadcast on TV. During that period, Taiwan was under martial law. In this way, this surgery was often interpreted as a metaphor for the relationship between Taiwan and China. In order to prepare for the separation surgery, the hospital invited an artist to make a cast of the conjoined twins. The attempt to make a cast was however unsuccessful, since it was difficult to control the babies during the moulding process. In this project Single Copy, I have re-casted the body of the now 43-year old Chang Chung-I, and also use 3D scanning technology to archive his body. The data from the archive are then used as sources for capturing memories from Chang’s earlier life.

Hsu Che-Yu (b. 1985) is an artist based in Taipei and Amsterdam. In 2022, he begins his two-year art residency in Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Hsu Che-Yu works as an artist who primarily creates animations, videos, and installations that feature the relations between media and memories. What matters to the artist is not simply the history of events traceable through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective.

The Lighting - Musquiqui Chihying 致穎
6:49, Digital, Color, 2021, Taiwan

The Lighting aims to revisit and clarify the issue of discrimination rooted in technological development and image production through an interdisciplinary exploration. The work comprises three narratives—three professional Togolese photographers explore how to use instruments to compensate for insufficient exposure for dark skin tones; a leading software engineer developing facial recognition algorithms at Taiwan’s MediaTek talks about how they have created a camera algorithm that is highly popular on the African continent; moreover, the artist uses Kodak’s Ektachrome, a popular film in the 70s, to produce a kung fu film in the style of exploitation film, using images of the famous Black martial art film star, Jim Kelly, in Bruce Lee’s movies in the 70s. The work is also interlaced with an animated Bruce Lee as the narrator trained by facial motion capture and a speech recognition algorithm.

Musquiqui Chihying's works have been exhibited in numerous international art institutions, including HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Migros Museum of Contemporary art in Switzerland, Art Sonje Center in Seoul, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Power Station of Art in Shanghai, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, among others. His film works have been screened at various film festivals, including Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands, and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. In 2023, he was awarded the Tung Chung Prize by The Hong Foundation in Taiwan. In 2019, he received the LOOP Video Art Award from the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Joan Miró Foundation in Spain. He is a member of the Taiwanese art group Fuxinghen Studio and leads the Research Lab of Image and Sound (RLIS), focusing on media technology and image politics research.

Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a The Rocking Malaya
- Au Sow Yee 區秀詒
20', Digital, color, 2024, Malaysia

Bad Dream Rocking a.k.a. The Rocking Malay(a) looks at “Si Tanggang”, a popular folklore among the Malay archipelago. It was adapted into a 1961 Malay film. Lines from the film were re-enacted by stateless children in Malaysia. Si Tanggang tells the story of the protagonist cursed by his mother into a rock after he renounced his mother in search of wealth, hierarchy, new identity and new ethnicity. The work explores the many iterations of Si Tanggang through re-enactment, reconstruction, deconstruction and metafiction, expending dialectical yet ambiguous dimensions of inside and outside, natives and outsiders etc.

Au Sow Yee was born in Kuala Lumpur, she now lives and works in Taipei. Her works were exhibited in the 2023 Sharjah Biennale, 2022 Busan Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin) etc. Chen Yow-Ruu was born in Kaohsiung, she now lives and works in Taipei. Yow-Ruu is a theatre director and artist. Her collaborations with Au Sow Yee were included in group exhibitions at Singapore Art , New Taipei City Art Museum etc.