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'Tell Me What You Want’ is an ambitious 4 screen video project about the interactions of a tourist and the inhabitants of an exotic culture, culminating in friendship. The project was created between November 2015 and June 2017, when the artist Yu Cheng-Ta flew frequently from Taipei to Manila, all the while assuming identities of that of a traveller, a friend, and a film producer.

The tile of the project ‘Tell Me What You Want’, refers to a sort of a greeting in the red- light district of Malate in Manila, which in turn refers to the local transactional structure used on the streets. …