Re:collections
Processing the trauma of chronic illness in a bilingual performance film embracing ancient and modern medicine
Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of medical and familial trauma. Moving through the artist’s intimate thoughts, Re:collections melds together new media performance, documentary, Chinese medicine, and Taoist cosmology to question how identity and language are conceived in the context of disability and immigration.
- Year: 2021
- Country: Taiwan
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Nowness
- Keyword: performance art
- Director: Yo-Yo Lin
- Cast: