House a (2026)

2-channel Video Installation, 35’58″, 2026

House a (2026) engages a plutonium separation plant from Taiwan’s secret nuclear weapons programme, which was terminated in 1988 following U.S. intervention and subsequently entombed in concrete. Within the assembly house of the Amis Sawuazhi community in Taoyuan—one of the communities affected by nuclear weapon material explosions—the artists invited a scientist who had participated in the programme to collaboratively stage the spatial erasure of the facility. Built inside the assembly house, the “inner house,” conceived as a site where memories of nuclear weapons are articulated, is dismantled on site and reassembled outside in the public square, a site marked by collective experience of contamination. The operation turns interior into exterior and stages the otherwise inaccessible core of the buried facility. Developed through site visits, archival research, interviews with former nuclear scientists and community members affected by radioactive contamination, as well as simulation and reenactment, the work does not represent the lost site but produces the conditions under which it can be thought, materialising absence as a spatial arrangement and framing memory as a structural relation, more than merely a visual image.