《Complete Pig》is a story that a leading character who wants to become a complete “pig human” (a combination with a pig head and a human body) starts to look for a journey he missed before. This work is conducted by the element of performance art, and then through ways of images recording and montage to represent the form of video.

Origin of the work is from a question and an experiment based on author’s own perspective toward society. The author via a form of video art to illustrate some differences of things and essences in everyday life and we view those as convention without discrepancy. Based on this, the film is to discuss two ways of seeing: From being to substance and from substance to being and then to explore a reflection of being.

The work is divided into three parts. First, “Recombination” is to stimulate audiences to reconsider the relationship of seeing toward substance and to examine what the existence is through an action of touch. Second, “Alien” is to discuss an impact between beings and alienated individuals and to represent the record of performance art. Third, “A part of me” is to make the leading character to face own self and further to become an integer self.

With regard to the content in dissertation, it encompasses three sections. First section, introduction, is to introduce the motivation and conception of the work. Second section, literature review, is to clarify what the genre is in this work through reviewing concepts and histories of video art and performance art. Moreover, psychosocial developmental theory proposed by Erik H. Erikson will be addressed in this section to strengthen denotation in the work. Finally, third, is to introduce and analyse the content of the video art followed by a reconsideration and discussion toward the work.