Pou-Ching Tsai, born in Chiayi in 1986, lives and works in Tainan. Building on his fondness for animals since childhood, Pou-Ching Tsai’s recent work attends to human-animal relationships through his study of amateur biology. The artist utilizes video, installation, and archives to consider and create unprecedented connections in response to our contemporary survival modes and progressively complex relationships with animals.
Spring of the Fiddler Crabs is an interactive kinetic sound installation inspired by the courtship behavior of fiddler crabs. Fiddler crabs attract potential mates by waving their enlarged claws and play a vital role in coastal wetlands through filter-feeding and burrowing, helping to maintain healthy soil. Visitors can play their own songs through their mobile phones, causing the mechanical crab claws to move in rhythm with the music. By bringing together the ways humans and fiddler crabs express affection, the work seeks to create a bridge of empathy between people and another species.
