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Wandering Through the Parallel Universe \u2014 Hsieh Chun-Te\u2019s\u00a0Brave the World<\/h4>\n

By Hsiang Yang (Poet, Cultural Critic)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It began with a simple invitation. I received a call from the photographer Hsieh Chun-Te, assuming it had to do with one of his photography projects. I arrived at the studio, where to my surprise, many familiar faces from the arts and literary world had gathered. We exchanged greetings and settled in\u2014still unsure of what we were about to do. It wasn’t until we were asked to change into costumes\u2014minimal “warrior garb” composed of a few strips of cloth\u2014that I realized this was not a conventional portrait session. We were to enact a performance scene as \u201cangelic warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, at the opening of Hsieh\u2019s exhibition\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, beneath the twilight skies and within the historic atmosphere of the plaza, the artist elaborated on his concept. I finally understood:\u00a0Brave the World\u2014part of his larger\u00a0Parallel Universe Series\u2014was both an exploration of the spiritual worlds of those living with dementia and an artistic meditation on memory, childhood, and dreamscapes.<\/p>\n

Drawing from his decades of photographic experience and deep life reflection, Hsieh constructs not merely an exhibition, but a life philosophy enacted through multimedia: photography, sculpture, fashion, high-speed video, digital post-production, poetry, music, and movement. These elements converge to form a multidimensional cosmos where body and spirit, reality and imagination, gravity and flight, exist in uncanny parallel. The exhibition is not merely about courage\u2014it is about coexistence across dimensions.<\/p>\n

From the perspective of art sociology,\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0represents a creative engagement with Taiwan\u2019s aging society. Through the camera lens, Hsieh addresses the urgent issue of dementia care. The project encourages Taiwan to confront the coming demographic realities while also expressing compassion for the caregivers who silently shoulder emotional burdens. In inviting a group of writers and intellectuals\u2014including myself\u2014to become part of this “art in action,” Hsieh advocates for a socially engaged aesthetic practice.<\/p>\n

Room 205 featured the\u00a0Silent\u00a0series, five immersive installations telling the stories of families impacted by dementia. Projected onto large screens, the works include personal accounts from public figures such as Tan Ai-Chen, Ouyang Jing, Lang Tsu-Yun, Hsieh Yi-Chang, and Chen Shao-Wei. The theme of\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0emerges clearly here\u2014an encouragement for families and companions of Alzheimer’s patients to persevere. These images do not isolate art from life but intertwine them, producing a deeply moving effect. Elsewhere, portraits of the elderly mothers of public figures Chen Yu-Hsiu and Sun Ta-Chuan\u201498-year-old Mrs. Chen and 105-year-old Mrs. Sun\u2014render time visible: the texture of years speaks through stillness and motion alike, yielding a radiant grace.<\/p>\n

From a poet\u2019s perspective, one could call Hsieh a \u201cphotographic poet.\u201d His lensing, his acute visual sensitivity, his narrative and imagistic style\u2014everything carries a poetic resonance. The waterfall installation in Room 204, cascading across three walls, is nothing short of breathtaking. Defying gravity, the torrent flows in surreal suspension\u2014its roaring volume balanced by delicate drips, its sound and sight a contrapuntal symphony.<\/p>\n

In Room 203, the piece\u00a0Witch 1×10\u00a0conjures a spectral, fantastical atmosphere. Black and white. Life and death. The real and the arcane unfold in tandem\u2014striking and eerie.<\/p>\n

The poetic continues in Room 202, with\u00a0Milky Way: a farmhouse granary, the scent of straw, skylights open to constellations, rekindling the Taiwan countryside of the 1950s and \u201960s. Childhood dreams, starry skies, whispered soliloquies\u2014cosmic mysteries reflected in the eyes of a child. An aesthetic experience both unspeakable and profound.<\/p>\n

Then came the piece in which I myself took part:\u00a0This Is the War. Twelve warriors don garments barely covering the body, advancing in slow procession. As the warriors rise and rotate in suspended motion, they form tableaux of paradox\u2014movement and stillness, body and spirit, death and life. Here, the concept of the \u201cparallel universe\u201d manifests as metaphor: a world where bravery emerges from vulnerability. As Hsieh writes in his accompanying poem:<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon the path of the path,
I bind myself into a flying sacrifice.
My weakness becomes the warrior within the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus,\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0is more than photography\u2014it is a total encounter with time, illness, and life. Beyond physical reality, Hsieh gestures toward one (or many) unknowable universes running in parallel. Through his work, I see not only a photographer concerned with society\u2019s ailments, but also a poet reflecting on the existential dimension of our finite time. That, perhaps, is the very heart of\u00a0Brave the World.<\/p>\n

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I received a call from the photographer Hsieh Chun-Te, assuming it had to do with one of his photography projects. I arrived at the studio, where to my surprise, many familiar faces from the arts and literary world had gathered. We exchanged greetings and settled in\u2014still unsure of what we were about to do. It wasn't until we were asked to change into costumes\u2014minimal \"warrior garb\" composed of a few strips of cloth\u2014that I realized this was not a conventional portrait session. We were to enact a performance scene as \u201cangelic warriors.\u201d<\/p> <p>Later, at the opening of Hsieh\u2019s exhibition\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, beneath the twilight skies and within the historic atmosphere of the plaza, the artist elaborated on his concept. I finally understood:\u00a0Brave the World\u2014part of his larger\u00a0Parallel Universe Series\u2014was both an exploration of the spiritual worlds of those living with dementia and an artistic meditation on memory, childhood, and dreamscapes.<\/p> <p>Drawing from his decades of photographic experience and deep life reflection, Hsieh constructs not merely an exhibition, but a life philosophy enacted through multimedia: photography, sculpture, fashion, high-speed video, digital post-production, poetry, music, and movement. These elements converge to form a multidimensional cosmos where body and spirit, reality and imagination, gravity and flight, exist in uncanny parallel. The exhibition is not merely about courage\u2014it is about coexistence across dimensions.<\/p> <p>From the perspective of art sociology,\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0represents a creative engagement with Taiwan\u2019s aging society. Through the camera lens, Hsieh addresses the urgent issue of dementia care. The project encourages Taiwan to confront the coming demographic realities while also expressing compassion for the caregivers who silently shoulder emotional burdens. In inviting a group of writers and intellectuals\u2014including myself\u2014to become part of this \"art in action,\" Hsieh advocates for a socially engaged aesthetic practice.<\/p> <p>Room 205 featured the\u00a0Silent\u00a0series, five immersive installations telling the stories of families impacted by dementia. Projected onto large screens, the works include personal accounts from public figures such as Tan Ai-Chen, Ouyang Jing, Lang Tsu-Yun, Hsieh Yi-Chang, and Chen Shao-Wei. The theme of\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0emerges clearly here\u2014an encouragement for families and companions of Alzheimer's patients to persevere. These images do not isolate art from life but intertwine them, producing a deeply moving effect. Elsewhere, portraits of the elderly mothers of public figures Chen Yu-Hsiu and Sun Ta-Chuan\u201498-year-old Mrs. Chen and 105-year-old Mrs. Sun\u2014render time visible: the texture of years speaks through stillness and motion alike, yielding a radiant grace.<\/p> <p>From a poet\u2019s perspective, one could call Hsieh a \u201cphotographic poet.\u201d His lensing, his acute visual sensitivity, his narrative and imagistic style\u2014everything carries a poetic resonance. The waterfall installation in Room 204, cascading across three walls, is nothing short of breathtaking. Defying gravity, the torrent flows in surreal suspension\u2014its roaring volume balanced by delicate drips, its sound and sight a contrapuntal symphony.<\/p> <p>In Room 203, the piece\u00a0Witch 1x10\u00a0conjures a spectral, fantastical atmosphere. Black and white. Life and death. The real and the arcane unfold in tandem\u2014striking and eerie.<\/p> <p>The poetic continues in Room 202, with\u00a0Milky Way: a farmhouse granary, the scent of straw, skylights open to constellations, rekindling the Taiwan countryside of the 1950s and \u201960s. Childhood dreams, starry skies, whispered soliloquies\u2014cosmic mysteries reflected in the eyes of a child. An aesthetic experience both unspeakable and profound.<\/p> <p>Then came the piece in which I myself took part:\u00a0This Is the War. Twelve warriors don garments barely covering the body, advancing in slow procession. As the warriors rise and rotate in suspended motion, they form tableaux of paradox\u2014movement and stillness, body and spirit, death and life. Here, the concept of the \u201cparallel universe\u201d manifests as metaphor: a world where bravery emerges from vulnerability. As Hsieh writes in his accompanying poem:<\/p> <p>\u201cUpon the path of the path,<br>I bind myself into a flying sacrifice.<br>My weakness becomes the warrior within the war.\u201d<\/p> <p>Thus,\u00a0Brave the World\u00a0is more than photography\u2014it is a total encounter with time, illness, and life. Beyond physical reality, Hsieh gestures toward one (or many) unknowable universes running in parallel. Through his work, I see not only a photographer concerned with society\u2019s ailments, but also a poet reflecting on the existential dimension of our finite time. 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