Invitation - Silent Wave

About the Solo Performance, Installation Photography Exhibition… and the Inter-Island Project

An island is a solitary reef of memory.
When the waves crash in, history sinks silently beneath the sea.
(Photography by Yu Jia-Rong)

It began as a simple idea—a poem titled In Search Through Time. But unexpectedly, it grew into a script:
A girl steps onto a volcanic island, formed from layers of memory. Along the coast, the waves roar in silence. Her footsteps, by chance, begin to echo the memories embedded in the island itself.

How do a poem or a script come into being?
It all started with walking the land—field research, one step at a time.

This past spring, I set out on a journey. I arrived at Cell No. 14, on the far shore of time—a place both familiar and strange. A dark green door stood like a wall, separating survival and breath, day and night. A white-haired figure spoke of a body once confined to a tiny cell—and a soul that once soared, awakened by a decisive call for change. Thus, thoughts took flight, even in silence.

Later, accompanied by the sound of waves, I set foot on a solitary island. That morning, the sea was calm. The white-haired figure spoke again, this time from within a prison hemmed in by towering walls and iron bars. He recounted his youth as a "Red Cap"—a prisoner in times of political turmoil.
And in that moment, as our eyes met, something shifted. From the narrow crack of a cell door, a poem emerged, and so did a transformation:
The girl in the poem, in pursuit of time, stepped forward as a character on stage—
and thus, the verses turned into scenes, and she entered the long corridor of memory, where waves crash endlessly.

In the play, a photographer—known only as X—appears briefly on the journey. He leaves behind pages of handwritten notes and stark black-and-white images, then vanishes from the island, saying he must roam the map of East Asia to trace the buried memories of massacre. When X sets foot on another island, it is April 3rd—the season when camellias bloom beautifully. Memory flows like blood seeping quietly through the veins of time…

Ah—
Who has murdered the memory of massacre itself?
On another volcanic island beneath the crashing waves, it is the dead who have saved the living.
That is what X said. But why?

Under the harsh beam of a searchlight above barbed-wire walls, the girl dances—for the soul of her lover, who flies through her thoughts. Shiva, too, dances through eternity, toward rebirth through fire.
And the memories buried in time—
they too, dance in the flames.

From one island to another…
Memory burns.

September 11 (Thu) – September 12 (Fri), 7:30 PM Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Arch Hall

Solo Performance No.1 (Busan) – Performed by Space Theater
Solo Performance No.2 (Taipei) – Performed by Assignment Theater

🔅Door Open: 19:00

🔅50% discount for persons with disabilities and one accompanying guest.

Please present valid disability ID upon entry. Both the guest and the ticket holder must enter the venue together.

August 30 (Sat) – October 5 (Sun)
Installation Photography Exhibition | Treasure Hill Artist Village, Corner Gallery No. 2

September 13 (Sat), 2:00 PM｜Exhibition Tour with Photographer Yu Jia-Rong