Re:collections
“Processing the trauma of chronic illness in a bilingual performance film embracing ancient and modern medicine”
2021•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Yo-Yo Lin
Languages
English
Studio
Nowness
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