{"id":1069,"date":"2003-10-09T03:19:24","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:00:49","slug":"mysterial-power-recent-video-by-lana-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/09\/mysterial-power-recent-video-by-lana-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterial Power: Recent Video by Lana Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:15pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/4961917.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2391 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/4961917.jpg\" alt=\"4961917\" width=\"450\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Lana Lin in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Translations of all types are the subject of video artist Lana Lin\u2019s recent work. <em>No Power to Push Up The Sky<\/em> (2001) is structured around an interview with Chinese student activist Chai Ling in the turbulent days before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre; Lin asked fifteen Chinese-and-English speakers to translate Chai Ling\u2019s emotional speech, thus uncovering the subjective motivations underlying any retelling of history (the title derives, poignantly, from a slogan the 23-year-old student leader scrawled on her clothing to express the feeling of helplessness in the face of state power). Drawing a connection between electronic and cultural translation, <em>Taiwan Video Club <\/em>(1999) features the artist\u2019s mother engaging in the \u201cbenignly illegal trafficking\u201d of bootleg videos dubbed from Taiwanese television.\u00a0 The network of elderly Asian-American women who share the tapes grapple with degenerating image quality but find unity in native culture and common past.\u00a0 Finally, translations of a spiritual sort inform <em>Mysterial Power <\/em>(2002) which draws inspiration from the artist\u2019s adolescent cousin in Taiwan, who has been communicating with deities of Taiwanese mythology since childhood; Lin describes the work as \u201cboth a personal and ethnographic pursuit of knowledge,\u201d in which \u201cthe figure of the modern spiritual medium acts as a translator between different categories of experience\u201d (Jim Trainor). 1999\u20142002, Lana Lin, Taiwan\/USA, ca. 90 min, various formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:15pm Lana Lin in person! Translations of all types are the subject of video artist Lana Lin\u2019s recent work. No Power to Push Up The Sky (2001) is structured around an interview with Chinese student activist Chai Ling in the turbulent days before the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre; Lin asked fifteen [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/10\/09\/mysterial-power-recent-video-by-lana-lin\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Mysterial Power: Recent Video by Lana Lin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,211,423,615],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8","tag-asia","tag-experimental","tag-monographic-shows","tag-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}