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- Title
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? Reinventing Intermedial Urban Space in Early 1980s Taiwan.
- Authors
Shao-Hung Teng
- Abstract
This paper situates the proliferating media culture of early 1980s Taiwan against a social backdrop characterized by urbanites' malleable living environment. I argue for a reconsideration of urban space less as blueprinted or represented than as brought together by intermedial nexuses and collaborations. To do so, I study three media works--a video art work, a feature film, and a street performance--to illustrate their interrelations. By foregrounding the identity of mainlander veterans and their vanishing homes as underlying all three media works, I illustrate how intermedial networks help foster a collective citizenship that acutely reflects the issue of urban dwelling. A refocus on intermedial practices takes up issues of displacement, embodiment, and mobility, keys to teasing out body-environment relations in Taiwan's ultra-urbanizing era.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; MASS media; MOTION pictures; VIDEO art; STREET theater; PAPA, Can You Hear Me Sing? (Film); PUBLIC spaces
- Publication
Concentric: Literacy & Cultural Studies, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 2, p57
- ISSN
1729-6897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6240/concentric.lit.2017.43.2.04