Mount Ecstasy虛迷山

YAO Jui-Chung × NONTECH × Meuko Meuko

With contemporary artist Yao Jui-Chung’s series, Mini Meme, as the creative core, Mount Ecstasy extends from Yao’s peculiar observations and whimsical imaginings of Taiwanese society, technological development, and history to reconstruct a fictional universe that merges mythical allegory with contemporary society. This universe echoes Mount Meru, a symbol revered in Buddhism and Hinduism as the central axis of the universe, which is transformed into Mount Ecstasy. This contemporary Taiwanese spiritual landscape is a hybrid world that intertwines maritime legends, information illusions, and spiritual parties, presenting a multi-faceted revelry of illusory reality.

With Yao as the original creator and concept director, the artwork is co-created by new media artist Yi Kuo and experimental electronic musician Meuko Meuko Deploying 3D game engine technology and immersive surround sound effects, the work extends the sci-fi mythology and narrative style established in the pair’s previous audiovisual performances, Invisible General and Ghost Island and reinterprets the scenes and characters from the paintings in the series, Mini Meme. This site-specific work designed for the immersive projection venue, U-108 SPACE, invites viewers to enjoy an experience that blends mythical imaginings and audiovisual illusions from a first-person perspective.

Creative & Production Team

姚瑞中 YAO Jui-Chung │ Original Creator, Concept Director 郭一 Yi KUO │ Visual Direction and Production Meuko Meuko │ Music Production and Performance XTRUX │ 3D Character Design and Animation 黃偉 HUANG Wei│Imaging Technology, Program Development NONTECH │ Visual Production Coordination NAXS Group│Coordination and Planning 劉詩偉LIU Shih-Wei │ Sound Mix Engineering 妖精打架 Fairy Fight │ Costume Styling for Opening Performance Mika │ Headdress Design for Opening Performance 林龍進 LIN Lung-Chin │ Visual Design