| Mi-Lou series serves as a platform where issues related to city, prediction, and dream are discussed. It is a piece supported by a comprehensive framework, a project divided into three distinctive elements. The scenes took place sequentially in New York, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although I am often distracted by the minutia and seductions of daily life, I try to reflect, with the help of art, on the complex interrelationships between imagery, existence, and reality. That’s why I created Mi-Lou. | 
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Wu Dar-Kuen is a Taiwanese artist.
Wu Dar-Kuen, Mi-Louââ¬âTaipei, 2008.Mi-Lou series serves as a platform where issues related to city, prediction, and dream are discussed. It is a piece supported by a comprehensive framework, a project divided into three distinctive elements. The scenes took place sequentially in New York, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although I am often distracted by the minutia and seductions of daily life, I try to reflect, with the help of art, on the complex interrelationships between imagery, existence, and reality. That’s why I created Mi-Lou.
Just like in a city context, the public is the most important component of Mi-Lou. The most notable difference between Mi-Lou and a labyrinth is that people enter a labyrinth, trying to find a way out, whereas those who choose to enter Mi-Lou forget what they are doing and lose their way in the process.
Despite the sense of being “lost,” I insist on creating a sense of being “enchanted.” I take feelings of happiness, fantasy, worry, and puzzlement—feelings one has while wandering in a strange city—and put them into a complex psychological relationship, a confused state of mind, and a complex cultural discourse. In order to highlight the focus of Mi-Lou I have designed a display format that combines installation, theater, and video art. An indescribable atmosphere is created through the performances of street artists from different places, which is what makes Mi-Lou interesting.
The installation takes the physical existence of Mi-Lou and transforms it into something grounded in spirit and culture. People in Mi-Lou find themselves pacing back and forth through a maze of urban history, until their steps grow unsteady and there is no peace or comfort.
