Note: The exhibition, Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology, curated by Huang Chien-Hung, ruminates on such matters of urgency as digital technologies of big data and AI, and (post-)colonial phantoms that still haunt various countries as well as the ensuing improbability of transitional justice. What are the relations between these issues? And how shall we address them? Bearing those issues in mind, the author ventures into contemplation on the curatorial topics of historical justice, technology, and colonial phantoms, hoping to unveil the challenges facing the practices of "trans-justice" of any form in the age of spectacle, as is done by the force of technology, suggested by the exhibition, that has mediated (post-)colonial justice.
Chang Wen-Hsuan, "International Suicide Award", 2018; photo courtesy of Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology
Wu Chi-Yu, "CAPTCHA-CAPTCHA", 2018; photo courtesy of Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology
Chen Chieh-Jen, "A Field of Non-Field", 2017; photo courtesy of Trans-Justice: Para-Colonial@Technology
Harun Farocki, "Parallel I", 2012; ©Harun Farocki
Haron Farocki, "Parallel III", 2014; ©Harun Farocki