In the 60s, Taiwan has become the world’s factory by providing cheap labor, specializing in labor-intensive industries. When the living standards became higher and wages were raised, it has transformed into technology-intensive industries. However, what we produce still depends on other countries’ demands, from cane sugar and camphor, ready-made garments and shoes, to chips and laptops. Therefore I started to counterfeit and create the super star of semiconductor in the next generation—18 inch wafer, and I also recorded the process and testing result. Before manufacturers produce the new wafer, I have already launched the 18 inch wafer. But this wafer is not made of silicon metal but plastic. It also looks like counterfeit product in terms of manufacturing technique (“made in Taiwan” or “made in china”). Since it is painted to look like a real one, it only has the look but no function. In the end, real people wear dustproof clothes to display wafers and come to a smoking volcano and throw wafer at each other, in order to show the world the quality of these wafers—making your computers lighter, faster, and better.
(Young Artist Collection Catalog)