Beatrice Glow is a New York based Taiwanese-American interdisciplinary artist who has realized projects in New York, Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, and Chile. Holding a BFA from New York University, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Perú (2008) as a performance art grantee, where she exhibited Museo Migratorio and authored the publication Taparaco Myth, that is written in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Excavating ancestral and metaphysical origins, Beatrice Glow injects magic into her process-oriented work that spans from videos, texts, performances to site-responsive installations. Much like an interpretive archaeologist, Glow traverses through frontiers, generations and even geological timescales to explore the common grounds between cultures. With this perspective, she develops a syncretistic language that attempts to erase nationalism and unify humankind. Her work is influenced by historical dramas that weave themselves into the storytelling quality that is ever present in her work.

These shown images form a larger project, Taparaco Myth, and can be found in this publication: Taparaco Myth — 塔琶拉古傳說 — Mito Taparaco.
214 pages.
Full color.
Foreword by Gisela Cánepa Koch and Giuseppe Campuzano/
A Trilingual Publication in Spanish, English and Chinese.
$35; with CD $42.
ISBN: 978-612-00-0141-7.

Book Synopsis
Through photography, oral tradition and anecdotes, the trilingual Taparaco Myth artist publication narrates in Chinese, Spanish and English how family ties survive geographical distance, transient spaces between cultures — and sometimes even death. Initially inspired by how her family maintains connections within the diaspora via moths that serve as messengers when a relative passes away in Taiwan, Glow embarks on a journey to Peru to learn about how migratory families are mystically interlinked. On this road, she is guided by the moth — and then by grasshoppers, bees, blue flies and the “taparaco” owl butterfly —, to traverse the Andean highlands, the Amazons, the deserts, guano islands and cemeteries, where she unearths the collective memory and imagination embodied by the present day usage of the word “chino,” as well as other forms of cultural syncretism.

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