Charwei Tsai
Directing
Biography
Charwei Tsai was born in Taiwan and presently lives and works in Taipei and Paris. Tsai utilizes a variety of media in politically engaged performative practice. Her works are highly personal, portraying a sense of her Taiwanese identity and the consequent implications. Geographical, social, and spiritual concerns inform a body of work directed towards activating participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation.
Known For
In times of tragedy or jubilation, in poverty or wealth, we all have songs that we carry with us. And no matter where we come from, all human beings share this. We may not speak the same language or share the same culture, and we may have come from vastly different experiences in life but when we hear someone singing we immediately connect. We understand each other's suffering and joy. This is the purpose of our project.
Songs We Carry
Centred on the interwoven relationship between nature, spirituality and ritual, Charwei Tsai's "Lanyu — Three Stories" portrays the everyday life of the Tao people. Telling three short stories, the video is a journey into the indigenous communities that live in Lanyu, a rocky island off the southern coast of Taiwan, which controversially houses the nuclear waste of the country's three nuclear reactors.