Su Hui-Yu will be presenting his first feature film The Trio Hall at Eye Filmmuseum on May 27 from 19:15 to 21:00 as part of Eye on Art and in parallel to his solo exhibition The Space Warriors and the Digigrave at the gallery.
The Trio Hall is a satire that takes aim at chauvinism and colonialism; a postmodern potpourri of images taken from Taiwanese films and TV shows. Su Hui-yu transformed his performance of the same title at MOCA Taipei (2023) into an exceptional feature film debut crammed full of boundless creativity.
Nothing is sacred in this eccentric revue. Stalin dances with Chiang Kai-shek, Mao with Hitler – on roller skates and dressed for the ’80s – not to mention Churchill in a bathing suit. A competition between dictators: flashy, flamboyant, full of Hegelian dialectics and encompassing the whole world. The Trio Hall is a provocative pop re-enactment of the Cold War era that raises questions about the authoritarian tendencies emerging in the second decade of the 21st century.
Su Hui-yu ushers us through the visual language of two strong visual cultures: the romanticism of Taiwanese Three Hall Cinema from the 1960s and ’70s, and TV and variety shows from the ’80s. This results in a scintillating picture parade where entertainment, escapism and ideology collide: dark humour for a world on the brink of chaos.
