The film, Overt Listening, is the focus of Tiffany Sia’s
(b. 1988, Hong Kong) first institutional solo exhibition in Austria.
Set on the Kinmen Islands in Taiwan, just a few kilometers off the Chinese coast, the film critically examines the consequences of the Cold War, shedding light on the history of the difficult and often imperceptible geopolitical tensions in the Pacific Theater.
Sia combines footage of historical sites such as military bunkers with landscape scenes of deserted beaches.

This is accompanied by the sounds of radio broadcasts and military exercises. The work, which unfolds in a series of chapters within a spatial installation across the ground floor of the Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, blends oral narratives, official historiography,
and popular culture into a comprehensive cinematic essay.

Overt Listening by Tiffany Sia is co-produced with the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.