Zoë

The third phase of “Citing Bar” collaborates with the artist Ting-Ting Cheng to present the project “Zoë”, which focuses on immigration, women, mental health, and death, along with its extended actions.

Zoë includes a dual-channelled video installation and a publication revisiting the book “Last Words from Montmartre” by Qiu MiaoJin, a self-identified lesbian Taiwanese writer based in Paris between 1992 and 1995. The book was comprised of letters written by Qiu a week before her suicide at age 26 in her room in Montmartre, Paris.

在巴黎駐村期間，藝術家鄭亭亭邀請了九位住在巴黎的女性移民，到書中主角Zoë曾去過的地點，以自己的母語重新詮釋書中的信件，而這些行為也藉由錄像被記錄下來。除此之外，九位參與者的個人訪問也在出版品以及雙頻道錄像中以字幕的方式，平行地與28年前的故事一起呈現。

In the exhibition at Solid Art, Taipei, Cheng again, invited nine female immigrants in Taiwan to recite the extracts from the interviews of the immigrants in Paris, to continue the conversation. The interviews with the nine immigrants in Taiwan were also documented. These stories about global female immigrants will continue to be written and read, perpetuated through the act of citation – the Speech Act of vocalizing words. This project aspires to evoke and connect within the realm of departed lives, to reestablish relationships within seemingly isolated individual circumstances.Like Writer Hsiang-Yin Lai said, “Under this circumstance, the author indeed died, but the writing has its future.”

（The project and the exhibition are supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. ）

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鄭亭亭畢業於英國倫敦西敏大學攝影學及金匠大學純藝術碩士。

Cheng is an artist from Taiwan, graduated from MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London.

She likes to reinterpret archival and found materials to construct narratives in the current context. She had solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Art Museum and other institutions and galleries in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, UK and more.
She had participated in Tokyo Biennial, Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architechture (China), and group exhibitions at Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok), Daegu Art Factory, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), Künstlerhaus (Vienna), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, National Art Museum of China…etc. She was the resident artist at Iniva (London), CFCCA (Manchester), Zero Station (HCMC), MMCA (Seoul) and more.

曾在台灣、香港、日本、英國、西班牙、匈牙利等藝廊及機構舉行個展，其他展覽則包括—深圳香港建築雙年展、莫斯科年輕藝術雙年展、巴西聖保羅Videobrasil當代藝術雙年展、台灣國際錄像藝術展，及位於關渡美術館、國立台灣美術館、中國國家美術館等其它聯展，並為2021東京雙年展展出藝術家之一。