Introduction of the Exhibition
To mark its opening, the New Taipei City Art Museum has commissioned a site-specific work for the grey box space of Gallery 4A, focusing on new media experimentation and encouraging inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary visual culture. The inaugural exhibition features a collaboration between Xindian Boys (a New Taipei City art group comprising Tsong Pu, Su Hui-yu, Wu Tung-lung, and the late Chen Shun-chu) and the young art collective XTRUX, who present Project No. 5, titled Don’t Worry, Baby, utilizing algorithm and game engine technology.
As a cross-disciplinary art group, Xindian Boys prioritize the tacit understanding of everyday life as the foundation of their work. Their fifth work, “Don’t Worry, Baby”, incorporates the artists’ long-term experience and observations of living in the Xindian suburbs, employing a location-based exploration of the Xindian River basin as its point of departure. For these artists, life is the wellspring of creative inspiration; the rushing river a reflection of life, existence, and physical form. Building upon their previous four works, the exhibition combines a game engine, immersive projection, and traditional media to construct a life landscape between reality and fiction, guiding the viewer into the artists’ years-long exploration of the river basin.
Just as the title “Don’t Worry, Baby” evokes in its tone and imagery, art—even amidst a turbulent and ever-changing global landscape—serves as a declaration and sharing of life, existence, and one’s approach to the world. Here, “Don’t Worry, Baby” reveals a dual meaning: art as a sanctuary for healing and escape, where viewers are free to unwind, lose themselves, and transcend space and time. Art, however, also reflects the era’s challenges under technological progress. With prolonged gazing, the unreality of the scene and the instability of the image may provoke such self-inquiry: Are the world and I truly real?
① Interstellar
Project No.3 Interstellar was released in 2016, exploring the two sets of concepts: "artist/individual/life" and "society/world/universe." The series uses imagery to respond to the conditions of exile in art, politics, and spirit.
• Interstellar.
Three-channel video installation, collection of the New Taipei City Art Museum.
• Interstellar – RED.
Sculpture, wood, dimensions variable, 2016, courtesy of the Artist.
• Interstellar: (Red) Relics.
Sculpture, scrap metal, dimensions variable, 2016, courtesy of the Artist.
② Don’t Worry, Baby
• Immersive projection, unreal engine, real-time imaging, dimensions variable, 2025
• Neon light,144x100cm, 2025.
③ Determination of Life series
The Determination of Life series explores the possibilities of mountain and forest living in relation to contemporary life through the lens of Eastern philosophy.
• The Best Day.
Single-channel video, 2012, courtesy of the Artist.
• Leaning 30 Degrees, Wait for 15 Minutes, Net Weight 0.9 Tons, Area 120 Square Meters, Water Temperature 14°C.
Photography, special editions, 2012, courtesy of the Artist.
④ Xindian Boys: Talk Shit
Xindian Boys have some incidental recorded footage, including casual daily chats from 2012 to 2014; work documentation during the production of Determination of Life; and a selfie interview with three members at Ying-hua Street Studio in 2016, after the passing of Chen Shun-chu.
• Single-channel video, CRT, 2016, courtesy of the Artist.
⑤ The Untitled Year
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, amidst the oppressive lockdown, a sense of disorientation from being confined indoors, yet with a touch of carefree detachment, Project No.4 The Untitled Year was born. This piece attempts to start from the artist’s long-term creative context—“humans, landscapes, time, and others”—blending the everyday and extraordinary experiences under the pandemic. It creates a disguised ritual and narrative, leaving all possible answers for the audience to develop on their own.
• Photography, 152x210cm, 2021, courtesy of the Artist.