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"A leading figure on the emerging Taiwanese art scene, the poet, writer and video maker Tseng Yu-Chin revisits childhood memories in his work: moments of happiness, sorrow, pain and confusion. Tseng creates poetic yet disturbing images in which the innocence of childhood comes up against adult assumptions. In 2004, he made Who’s Listening, a video cycle consisting of five scenes where children play along with his premise. In the first segment, the children look into the camera, one by one, and watch out for the moment when they will be sprayed with milk. Feeling a little uneasy, experiencing a mixture of shame and sadness, they give in to the game and end up smiling. Tseng Yu-Chin explores the psychology of the everyday. In I Hate Assumption, he filmed children getting ready for school, apparently sleepwalking, with their mouths open, their eyes closed and their heads thrown back. His images shake up our patterns of perception."

I found a short video for you to watch. "Who's Listening" is currently on exhibit at the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal.