4. "pick/press/pick/pick - press/press/press/pick"
(Defrost the History of Museum !)
will be the title for a "Pan Chang Knot-performance" consisting of 8 Eastern
and Western actors, first jumping and squatting, then stretching their arms
and hands up/down trying to touch the sky/earth according to the weaving
pattern of the knot - which is one of the eight Buddhist treasures - in
order to "recover and de-freeze" the history of museum (after Jui-Chung
Yao).
index of the human cords for the performance
Mr. Ti-Nan Chi,
Taiwanese architect
Mrs. Sabine Hagemann-Uenluesoy,
director of the German Cultural Center Taipei
Mr. Manray Hsu,
Taiwanese art critic & curator
Mr. Kuang-Nan Huang,
director of the National Museum of History Taipei
Mrs. Stephanie Juenemann/Mrs. Susan Kendzulak,
German painter/American painter
Mr. Ralf Schmitt,
German (k)not-worker
Mrs. Amy Wang,
knotting-teacher at the Chinese Knotting Promotion Center Taipei
Mr. Jui-Chung Yao,
Taiwanese artist
The actions were "frozen" into a photo-shot taken by
Mr. Ben Yu,
Taiwanese photographer
on 29th of June/2nd of July 1999 at 3 p.m./10.30 a.m.
in front of the entrance of the National Museum of History Taipei