Join Candy Bird in documenting the forgotten things lost between the cracks
❝ Some memories were never truly forgotten—just rarely spoken aloud. ❞
In Taiwan, these memories often stem from family taboos or the absence of history in the education system. For Candy Bird, creation is a way to let these silenced languages reemerge—an act of resistance against forgetting and suppression.
This project exists to complete and push forward these works born from memory, history, and political margins—so they can be seen. So that moving images become more than archives: they become a living force.
🐦 About Candy Bird｜An artist walking between the political and the personal
Candy Bird (real name Han Chun-Yueh), born in Taipei in 1982, comes from a post-1945 immigrant family. He started his career through street graffiti, initially focusing on urban space and civic issues. His pen name “Candy Bird” originated as an anonymous street mark.
His work often revolves around the intersection of personal experience and political structures—what he calls the “cracks”: seemingly invisible gray zones where power and trauma intertwine.
From graffiti and murals to moving images and film, he has never stopped questioning how history seeps into our daily lives. His art resembles a form of reverse writing—not concerned with grand historical narratives, but instead delving into personal memory to confront how power infiltrates the family, education, language, and even dreams.
🏆 Exhibitions & Awards
🌟 2023 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival (Artist Residency and Exhibition)
🌟 2023 Solo Exhibition "沒關係的，沒關係" at Taipei JustArt Center
🌟 2020 Nuit Blanche Taipei, Multimedia Performance "漫遊公社"
Selected multiple times for international artist residency/creation programs (including Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, etc.)
🎞 Film works (click titles for more)
- All the best (2023): A fictional diary set in Taiwan under current Cold War tensions, exploring the life and inner conflicts of a spy operating in Taiwan.
- Riverside Fireworks (2023): A tale of separation and reunion, blending long silences and sonic detail. A decade-spanning love story that metaphorically reflects Hiroshima’s turbulent modern history.
- Unnamed Nightshade (2025): Inspired by the Taiwanese folktale The Tiger Aunt, this visual fable intertwines memories of authoritarian-era education. (The exhibition version is currently on view at C-LAB, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, through August 10.)
- SUGAR NOCTURNE (in production): Inspired by Candy Bird’s experience at the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, this poetic and ambiguous short juxtaposes a blurred memory of intimacy with Taiwan’s White Terror era.
🎯 Why your support matters
These short films have already been shot but are still awaiting final post-production and public promotion. Supporting this project is not only about helping Candy Bird finish the production—it’s also the key to ensuring that these works are seen, screened, and meaningfully understood.
These films will be brought into schools, communities, film festivals, and forums—serving as a medium for intergenerational dialogue and as a starting point for revisiting and rewriting history.
💰 How the funds will be used
Target: USD 20,000
- 50% Post-production of the dual-channel version of SUGAR NOCTURNE and film festival submissions
- 50% Development of the feature-length script Never Their We for the second half of the year
Use of funds
1️⃣ Finish post-production & submit to festivals
Including editing, color grading, sound mixing, subtitling, and format conversion for SUGAR NOCTURNE, ensuring that the works are prepared in their final versions for public screenings and archival purposes.
2️⃣ Promotion & educational outreach materials
Produce press kits, educational slides, and event assets to bring the films into classrooms, screenings, and forums—maximizing public reach.
3️⃣ Future project development fund
Assisting Candy Bird in the early-stage development of his next work, Never Their We, to ensure the continuation of this creative path that extends from his visual practice. The feature film Never Their We will be a collaboration with Hong Kong screenwriter Frankie Chung, and its story centers on the transformations Taiwan has undergone over the past decade, as well as the invisible lines within society that divide us.
Your contribution will help these works leave the studio and step into society.
🎁 Supporter rewards｜Participate, circulate, collect
Supporting this project is not just about funding films—it’s about helping artistic voices travel farther.
All reward tiers include offline public screening rights for any two short films (up to 50 attendees). Use the films in classrooms, art spaces, community events, or any shared setting where dialogue can grow.
1️⃣ Screening Partner｜Public Use Plan
Ideal for educators, curators, and organizers—help circulate these works and ignite public conversations.
2️⃣ Producer Ally｜Sponsorship Plan
Become a credited producer and receive a mystery gift curated by Candy Bird—a memento of your solidarity.
3️⃣ Executive Patron｜Sponsorship Plan
Receive a producer credit and a hand-drawn storyboard or location sketch from Unnamed Nightshade or SUGAR NOCTURNE—a fragment of the creative spark.
4️⃣ Angel Patron｜Sponsorship Plan
Receive a producer credit and an original acrylic painting by Candy Bird—become a witness and companion to this journey.
🤝 This isn’t a transaction—it’s an act of collective memory
We believe that supporting an artist is a form of trust—a belief that art can pierce through systems and the everyday.
Candy Bird’s works won’t offer you easy answers. Instead, they invite you to confront the questions we’ve long ignored. That’s what makes them necessary—honest, hard to categorize, but essential.
Join us in helping these stories get completed—and seen.
📩 Contact
Feel free to reach out if you have questions:
📍 Giloo support: [email protected]
📍 Candy Bird: [email protected]
📍 Candy Bird on social media:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candy.bird.3
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candybbird/