Huang Po-Chih: Blue Elephant

Blue Elephant. Huang Po-Chihs b.1980 presentation at mumok is centred around the multi-part work series Production Line Made in China amp Made in Taiwan 201421. Based on his essay Blue Skin Mamas Story 201113, in which he recounts his mothers eventful working life, Huangs series addresses the rise and fall of Taiwanese textile production and its incremental outsourcing to Shenzhen, China. Huangs mother and other former, now unemployed textile workers participated in this project as hands for a makeshift denim shirt production line that leads from Shenzhen back to Taipei. Huang used the platforms of the Shenzhen