Title: REM Sleep, Jao Chia-En
Description: Exhibition catalogue for 'REM Sleep' by Jao Chia-En, held at TheCube project space, Taipei, between 24 Dec 2011- 20 Jan 2012. Part of TheCube's Re-envisioning Society series. 

"REM Sleep" distils via a documentary format the dreams of Indonesian, Filipino, Thai and Vietnamese labourers who have come to Taiwan as short-term migrant workers after Taiwanese government policy shifted in the 90's.

On the one hand, documentation of these dreams in a foreign land serve as an exploration of the range of effects of a change of environment on the individual, as a result of shifting global economic forces. On the other hand, as documents with no legal ramifications whatsoever, they also avail to the global economic system inhabited by these nomadic individuals a possible means of introspection.
Subjects: labourers, art, contemporary art, Chinese contemporary art, exhibitions, catalog, catalogue, exhibition catalogue
Places: Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
People: Chia-En Jao, Amy Cheng