Tiffany Sia
Overt Listening

A new film entitled Overt Listening forms the focus for Tiffany Sia’s (b. 1988, Hong Kong) first institutional solo exhibition in Austria. Set on the Kinmen Islands in Taiwan, just a few kilometers off the Chinese coast, the film critically examines the aftermath of the Cold War, highlighting the history of difficult and often imperceptible geopolitical tensions in the region of the Pacific Theater. Sia combines footage of historical sites such as military bunkers with landscape scenes of deserted beaches. This is accompanied by the sound of radio broadcasts and military exercises. Unfolding in a series of chapters in a spatial installation across the ground floor of Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, the work mixes collected oral narratives, official histories and popular culture in an expansive, filmic essay.

The exhibition is organised in collaboration with KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.