Art, Society, and the Times: Rap Artist Yang Shuya
What is the relationship between art and society? Is it possible for art to exist outside of society, as a kind of “pure land”? How does art reflect the evolution of an era—or even move ahead of its time to drive change? This has been the central question I’ve explored since I first began creating. From the great creators of East and West, to protestors striving for change, and finally to local actors taking action on the ground. “Living in this era, what dreams can we still hold on to?” In pragmatic despair, I pragmatically believe that both creation and action, like water, can flow into and fill the cracks that our times so urgently need.
饒舌音樂女性創作者,代表作<華康少女體內份子>、<Rule男Freestyle>入圍2025金音獎最佳嘻哈單曲獎,<記憶說>以不義遺址探討空間演變、國族歷史失憶、政治暴力創傷。致力於寫台灣的故事、寫女人的故事、寫台灣女人的故事。
8 films
Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Chun Tae-il: a Flame That Lives On
K-family Affairs
The Right Thing (remastered version)
Who’ll Stop the Rain
Girls' School
The Dreamer
On the train
Popular
Kinda Loser-ish, But Kinda Nice
“Lu-se” (魯蛇, Taiwanese internet slang borrowed from the English word “loser”) seems to have become a dead word. You rarely hear anyone say it anymore, and I’m not sure why. I don’t think the term can be understood simply as the English “loser.” In the way it’s used in Taiwan, it seems to carry a touch of self-deprecating humor, and that’s a quality I really love. The films above are the ones that, to me, have that feeling.