/ 《Go Home》

—— The present forum is an artwork's introduction of the exhibition 《Echoes of All The Flowers》 ——


《Go Home》

Jia Jia X Vvzela Kook


Go Home is a video installation co-created by musician Masa, Jia Jia and Hong Kong artist Vvzela Kook. Masa re-arranges singer Shunza’s hit song, Go Home, to be re-interpreted by Jia Jia with her soulful voice, portraying the complex feelings about home, a drifting life and the separation from one’s native land. Throughout the music, Masa uses sound-mixing technology to combine ambient sounds with the music to evoke memories about travelers and traveling by train. Through sounds, the work mixes and transports listeners through rural, village, urban and interregional memories, layering travelers’ longing for home and conveying an emotional soundscape of home as the audience attentively listens through the headphones.


Expanding mental image through sound and visual image, the video reveals Kook’s use of multi-layered texture and appealing to audience’s sensibility as well as Jia Jia’s interpretation of indigenous peoples’ loss of home. The work also continues Kook’s creative work, in which she has embedded intricate, overlapping narratives of diaspora, such as her virtual replication of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City, stories about the migrants’ in Vancouver, and her grandfather’s brother who fought in the Korean War and eventually settled down in Taiwan. Various perspectives and narratives are woven together to reflect a cross-regional imagination about migration, immigrants and diasporic experiences, initiating a dual discussion about returning home and failing to do so. Meanwhile, delineating an intersection of “audio” and “visual” perceptions, Kook also employs the characteristically penetrative quality of music and sound to “visualize” her interpretation of Taiwan’s mountains and sea as well as that of separation and quest.

※ Precaution in the Exhibition : Please be reminded that since the earphones are hanging, gently put them back in the original place after listening to avoid the danger caused by excessive swinging.


Provided by MoCA Taipei