Seven Monologues of Marshal Tie Jia Stories

the long version

Commissioned by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum for the Collateral Event of the 55th International Art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Marshal Tie Jia is an extensive multimedia work developed around the artist's conversations with the frog god Marshal Tie Jia. During the research, he discovered many conjunctions between modernity and myth through interviewing people around the current domicile and the original birthplace of Marshal. He decided to write a play based on these encountered characters to reflect histories through the string of a living myth, and create an open platform for further interpretation and imagination.