



Chang Hsuan Ming’s work begins by observing established values, rules, and social phenomena in everyday life, and responds to these issues through humor and labor, offering both critique and complaint.
Ku Tsing Mi Mi responds to the history and atmosphere of Qingguang Market. Since the 1950s, the market has served as a hub for imported goods due to its proximity to U.S. military units stationed in Taiwan, and it still retains its distinctive character and rhythm today. As an outside artist present for only a single night during the art festival, the artist chose to intervene in the place with minimal means: finding an old, worn sign for the “Imported Goods Center” that had long since stopped lighting up and bringing it back to life, its flickering light simulating the singing of a song.
The work existed for only one night, concealed within the market’s existing scene in a way that went almost unnoticed. This brief, understated intervention sought neither to rewrite nor override the place’s existing order, but instead to let something already present in the site speak, faintly, for itself. This flickering, half-visible presence invites viewers to reconsider whether art and place might coexist not through gestures of “intervention” or “display,” but through something lighter and closer to the rhythm of everyday life.
