The Song of the Machines

Yu-Chen Wang's quasi-fictional book, The Song of the Machines features stories about the artist's life and her practice. Reality and fiction are blurred through the display of new work, documentation, critical texts and creative writing. Her work explores the notion of representation, distortion and transformation, and the transitional space between them. Using a mixture of drawings, objects, installation, performance and film, the artist constructs visual narratives to explore the concept of machines and energy, and art's potential in dreaming of and hoping for a better future. This limited edition book is a visually rich and captivating narrative that explores the potential of assemblage and reinvention of art as bookwork. Consisting of 6 chapters, each taking a different perspective of the artist's work, there are critical pieces of writing by key authors and critics such as Nicolas de Oliveira and Jennifer Thatcher.