Yen Wang-Yun

Live cinema performance, color, sound, 30 min, 2025

Soundtrack & sound design: Nick Tsai
Live drawing: Chin Meng-Hsuan

In Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger’s short story, the narrator describes the blue sun amid a series of strange perceptions. The blue sun hangs high in the mountains where mining incidents took numerous lives in the mid-1980s. Following this literary metaphor, Blue Sun sets out to document the post-mining and post-disastrous villages in Northern Taipei.

With short film and performance, the project attempts to translate the lingering energy in the landscape from literature into other artistic mediums. The image theatre of Blue Sun weaves together improvised film projection, sound, and live charcoal drawing. In its live form, Blue Sun is a variable and accumulative process.

Yen Wang-Yun is a writer and artist/filmmaker based in Taipei and Amsterdam. He works with documentary, analogue film technique, and performance, and is interested in how language and images mediate the experience of the world.