One Sound of the Futures–Taipei

Isaac Chong Wai

Liberty Square, Taipai

Commissioned by MOCA Taipeu


By collectively shaping One Sound of the Futures, every participant becomes part of the work. With the form of the performance serving as a metaphor monuments in public sites, the artist employs the conceptual purport of contemporary art to give the public a chance to talk about historical memories of the future instead of creating an authoritarian, permanent monument. The work transforms hundreds of participants into standing, speaking sculptures and enables people in a time with uncertain political scenes to express their different voices in a stringent form at the same time, interweaving diverse times and voices into an ultimate, intangible moment resounded in a spoken yet indefinable noise that speaks about individual visions of the future.