(In)visible Visitor: Keelung Port

During the Cold War, U.S. military bases across Asian ports and islands formed a transnational military network that reshaped local spaces, entertainment culture, and intimate relationships. Long after the troops departed, military bases, bars, and harbors remained embedded within the urban landscape, while the lived experiences of mixed-race descendants of American servicemen continue to connect the present with this history.

The work begins with field research into the former U.S. military bar district surrounding Keelung Harbor. It documents these sites in their present condition while projecting the portrait of a mixed-race Taiwanese onto the former bar spaces, where they speak about their own life. By bringing people, place, and history into dialogue, the work allows a life story once lived there to briefly reappear within the very spaces where it unfolded.

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(In)visible Visitor is an ongoing project that examines ports, military bases, and border regions across Asia shaped by the presence of U.S. military forces. Through site-specific field research and moving-image installation, the project explores how the Cold War continues to shape space, embodied experience, and historical memory.