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Labay Eyong, Tommaso Muzzi, Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh

Film Screening: Dungku Asang

Film Screening: Dungku Asang

Join PICA for a special documentary screening and artist talk facilitated by Taiwan-based curator Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh.

Returning to PICA following her Taipei–Perth international exchange in January, Tammy’s practice engages postcolonial thought, geopolitics and the ecological impacts of extractive economies. She is joined by artists Labay Eyong and Tommaso Muzzi to present Dungku Asang, a 22-minute documentary set at the foot of a mining site in Taiwan.

The film explores a remote serpentinite marble quarry operated by a small group of Indigenous workers, most of whom come from the nearby village. Working conditions are extremely hazardous. During the COVID-19 pandemic, mining operations were temporarily suspended. A collective of artists specialising in traditional weaving initiated a year-long land art project led by Indigenous artist Labay Eyong, whose practice centres Taroko cultural knowledge and relationships to land. The project culminates in an opening ceremony that raises critical questions around Indigenous identity, land use and the impact of resource extraction.

The future of the mountain remains uncertain.

The screening will take place in PICA’s foyer and will be followed by a short artist talk with Labay Eyong and director Tommaso Muzzi, facilitated by visiting curator Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh.

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About the artists

Labay Eyong is a contemporary artist of Taroko heritage who grew up in Hongye, a Taroko Indigenous village established during Japan’s colonial rule through forced relocation. She holds a Master’s degree in Temporary Space Design from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her work explores tribal identity, femininity, motherhood, and environmental concerns, often realized in site-specific forms that emphasize locality and humanity’s relationship with nature. She has exhibited widely in Taiwan and abroad, with recent presentations at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), the 18th International Triennial of Textile (Poland), the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (USA), and Roppongi Art Night (Japan). Her works are held in the collections of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Microsoft, and private collections. In 2021, she launched her first curatorial project, Dunkgu Asang (Mountain Wrapping), at a mining site ravaged by corporate exploitation. Using traditional weaving, she and her collaborators symbolically sought to heal the land’s wounds.

Tommaso Muzzi studied filmmaking across various institutions in Italy and Spain. He has been working in audiovisual production since 1999, creating a wide range of works spanning fiction, video art, and auteur documentary, the latter becoming his primary creative focus. Since 2015, he has been based in Taiwan, where he actively collaborates with festivals, museums, and national television networks. With a strong interest in anthropology, ancient cultures, and environmental issues, in recent years he has directed two acclaimed projects, Dungku Asang (裹山) and Ndaan Mpmaduk 入山, documentaries exploring traditional weaving and hunting practices within Taiwanese indigenous cultures in contrast with modernity and environmental change. In September 2025, he began developing a new film project between Taiwan and Australia.

Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh is a curator, editor and researcher based in Taiwan. She has previously held positions at the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Hsieh’s curatorial practice emerges in response to Taiwan’s contested geopolitical condition, critically engaging with postcolonial thought, border imaginaries, diasporic histories and the ecological entanglements shaped by colonial legacies. Her recent research and curatorial interests trace the ecopolitics and extractive geographies of Asia and the Global South, attending to how landscapes are shaped—and scarred—by imperial legacies and uneven development. Previous curatorial projects include Technostalgia: Peripheral Memory, Ulaanbaatar Biennale, Mongolia (2025); Between Waves and Soils, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2024–25); A Nonexistent Museum Bookand, Macau (2023) and When Islands Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2021–22). She recently completed her residency at PICA.

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