Documentary XI – The X Mission

Length 3m45s, 2010

Artist：Chang-Jung Wu

This work records the process of providing emergency treatment to a sow experiencing a difficult labor.It also speaks to the artist, who, in providing emergency treatment while carrying out the X mission, feels a strong sense of intrusion and being intruded, and a state in which she searches for desires of some kind.
Midwifery SOP – Covering hands with lubricant and sticking them into the mother’s body for the rescue. Visual presentation features oiliness and stickiness. These impressions, along with pain, are the ones experienced by the artist strongly while carrying out midwifery for the sows. This documentary portrays bodily experiences through visualization – ones that the artist has no other way of describing. It also implies a sort of restlessness inside the artist, who is paralyzed by the excessive information in today’s society. It finally draws a collective lesson for the society to call for an emphasis on life.