A Total Story! Part two: Revisited

What can the “golden age of television” of the 1980s tell you about belonging, desire and anxiety today? Quite a lot, according to Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu, who sees the variety show (perhaps the most universal of all TV formats) as a lens to mark the ideological tensions of the present. 

In this second and last podcast episode we are diving deep in to the life of Su in search of what has formed his signature method of ‘reshooting’: Making art works by revisiting films and narratives form the past to bring forward the untold stories and forgotten tales that bubble right underneath the surface.

Through crisp and highly aesthetically films, museum-scale productions and collaborative performances around the world, Su Hui-Yu has already drawn international attention, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, and the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Now the curatorial team Martin Wendelbo and Regen Li, who is behind the trailblazing art platform Tofu Collective, have invited Su to extend his research into a Scandinavian exhibition for the first time with Vroom Vroom: A Total Story by Su Hui-Yu.

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The two episode podcast series A Total Story: A Total Transmission Revisited is brought to you by Art Hub Copenhagen in collaboration with Tofu Collective, and with support from Statens Kunstfond (2026).

Cast: Stis Andersen, Su Hui-Yu, Martin Wendelboe, Regen Li

Credits:
Michael Jackson, Bad, 1987
Michael Jackson, Beat it, 1982
Michael Jackson, Black or White, 1991
The New York Dolls, Personality Crisis 1973
David Bowie, China Girl, 1983

This episode was recorded live in Copenhagen in late spring 2026.