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Chung-Kun Wang is one of the rising stars in Taiwan’s Media art scene. He has created various forms of machinery with intriguing purity and a peculiar sense of beauty. As viewers approach, these machines operate automatically by making sounds, switching on and off, exhaling, spinning, or twinkling. Each artwork has its own rhythm variation, as if it has a life of its own.

With Wang’s consistent obsession with kinetic sculpture, also known as “overly-complex musical instrument,” he has extended his series of “no-sound suitcase” to one that starts playing music when viewers are in close proximity, allowing them to fantasize about what is inside an otherwise ordinary suitcase. This series of work pushes us to reconsider the meaning of sound by toying with sound in space. In this series, Wang takes odd instruments and hides them in portable-looking suitcases. Every time the suitcase opens/closes, the sound expands and it seems as if the object is digressing from its owner with a soul of its own.