From April 24, Art Hub Copenhagen's exhibition place Room Room will be transformed into an imaginary yet functional TV station, where horror, humor, and high drama coexist.

The curatorial duo behind Tofu Collective, Martin Wendelbo and Regen Li, have invited Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976) to continue his ongoing work A Total Story / The Trio Hall within a Danish exhibition context. Through a combination of video, installation, and performance, the work engages audiences in a universal TV format—the variety show—and reveals how it has historically been used, and continues to be used, as an instrument of “soft power” to produce and circulate ideas about ideology, desire, and collective imagination.

Since the Cold War, the variety show has functioned as a carefully choreographed television format in which a charismatic host—seemingly spontaneous—presents comedic sketches and musical performances interwoven with audience interaction, subtly transmitting ideals about gender, consumerism, modernity, and belonging directly into living rooms worldwide.

Having grown up in Taiwan in the 1990s, Su Hui-Yu draws on the political climate of that period, when Taiwanese society transitioned from authoritarian rule under the Kuomintang to democracy. To explore the intersections between personal and collective memory, he employs “reshooting” as an artistic method, recreating scenes from popular TV genres to revisit fragments of media history that were previously censored, obscured, or politically instrumentalized. By staging these images for contemporary audiences, Su invites new interpretations in an unstable and anxiety-inducing world that—like the exhibition itself—is constantly performing.

With Vroom Vroom: A Total Story by Su Hui-Yu, Room Room is divided into three zones: an SCR room, a makeup room, and a studio floor, each functioning as a cog in a larger system of narrative production. Together, they transform the exhibition space into a site of production with public rehearsals, recordings, and performances.

The exhibition takes the form of a dynamic broadcast and will continue to evolve throughout its duration, with new works developed on-site in collaboration with local contributors.

Read more at Art Hub Copenhagen's website.