A Letter to Ama

An art teacher returns to her childhood home to mourn the passing of her grandmother As she pieces together the fragmented memories of her youth she finds herself coming facetoface with the problematic issue of her countrys fractured history Through an artistic duty that this teacher gives to students a performance art process that has lasted for more than 10 years a representational portrait of the islands collective memory begins to emerge and in so doing these young artists have initiated a process by which Taiwan an island forgotten by the world and in the midst of forgetting itself can now remember itself and construct a new postcolonial identity through art