“Chronicle” is a phase-based depiction and expression of Candy Bird’s inner self. After two years of feeling a rupture in artistic values, Candy Bird participated in the “ Tree Tree Tree Person—Taroko Arts Residency Project ,” using this opportunity to explore the definition and concept of “recovery.”
Candy Bird is deeply moved by the uncontrollable aspects of life and the absurdities that surpass imagination. Whether big or small, certain things cannot be resolved through rational thought alone. To address this, the artist distanced themselves from familiar surroundings, using the act of reinterpreting memories as a transformative creative process. Through this, Candy Bird seeks to shape an understanding of recovery and respond to the multifaceted complexities and impermanence of life.
Tree Tree Tree Person—Taroko Arts Residency Project has been conducting arts residency programs since 2015, inviting contemporary artists to stay at Hualien’s Taroko National Park — in an environment that is virtually impossible in any other contemporary art institution — to live among the indigenous residents of Cihara’ay (also known as the Dark tribe, Taiwan’s last tribe to live beyond the power grid). As the contemporary art community engages in exchange and practice with the local residents, the artists revisit, contemplate, and construct an imagined relationship between man and nature.
In 2022, Tree Tree Tree Person—Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part 2 resident researchers Cheng-Te CHIN, Arion DAUBY/ Lysianassa DAUBY/ Wan-Shuen TSAI/ Yannick DAUBY, Yinru LO/ Szu-ni WEN, and Candy Bird had staying at the Dali-Datong tribe for their research and will present their results in Taipei’s TheCube Project Space.
