Enkaryon Ang

Poet and interdisciplinary artist. Enkaryon Ang has published several collections of poetry and essays, including "Rorschach Inkblot", "A Galaxy of Howness", and etc. He has been a resident writer or artist in Cove Park in the U.K., Grey Projects in Singapore, and UNESCO Prague City of Literature. In recent years, he has been studying the diversity of sinography and the writing as well as translation systems of Sinophone in Southeast Asia. He then incorporates his findings into his creations to explore ecological relationship, geopolitics, and the structures of cold war or colonialism. 

Exhibition: 
"The Annals of Chulo County" in 1717 recorded, "Those who have learned the red-haired letters (Latin alphabets), write horizontally from left to right in rows. The letters resemble the ancient seal script of calligraphy. The literates, who are called bookmen, can handle official documents, do administrative works. The red-haired don’t use brush pens when writing. They craft a goose quill into a pen by sharpening its tip, removing small hairs, preparing an ink bottle, dipping the nib in the ink. Then it’s ready to write. Regular red-haired paper isn’t easy to obtain. Letter paper is a substitute for it. The backside of the paper can also be written on." The foreign Contracts (named by the Han Chinese) signed in 1813 also indicate that 151 years after the Dutch’s expulsion from Taiwan, there were still some indigenous people living around Sinkang knowing how to write in Romanization. This also means, since the Dutch founded the first school in Sinkang in 1636, the Siraya have developed their unique history in written language. In the exhibition, the species, "goose", is utilized as an index, with reference to the hypothesized lifestyles of the islanders and the colonizers. Writing, being imagined as a "technical memory", ecologically connects to indigenous lives and creates a singularity beyond their planetary thinking, reaching the infinite.