https://youtu.be/MLbSeetortU 1mins 30secs, colors, Full HD
https://youtu.be/GNwWF5rpeOA 5mins, colors, Full HD
https://youtu.be/Kb7mfOASEEI 6mins, colors, Full HD
Sugar Nocturn consists of moving-image works and an installation that explore how migration, memory, and political structures intersect within Taiwan’s contemporary condition. Candy Bird situates Sinophone diasporic histories—shaped by post–Chinese Civil War migration—within East Asia’s lingering Cold War legacies and shifting geopolitics, creating atmospheres that move between everyday familiarity and allegorical tension.
Staged across the museum’s elongated corridor and a room styled like a 1990s hotel interior, the installation brings together video, furniture arrangements, and Simplified Chinese subtitles — a standardized writing system created by the Chinese government in the mid-20th century, whereas Traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. These elements form a suspended, uneasy sense of time and reveal subtle fractures in identity and belonging.
