Four artist talks will be held during the exhibition period, featuring the exhibition's curator CHUANG Wei-Tzu, along with Erica Yu-Wen HUANG, CHEN Kuan-Yu, and SHEN Bo-Yi as moderators, and WENG Chih-Chi as the panelist. The talks will revolve around the works presented in this exhibition, the long-term artistic practices of the participating artists, and their multifaceted interpretations of language and sound. These in-depth conversations with both local and international artists will offer insights into their creative concepts and artistic contexts.
▌Session 3
Chihhung LIU, HO Yen-Yen, LIN Yi-Chi, CHEN Kuan-Yu (Moderator)
Time: 2025/06/21 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
Venue: CREATORS’ Space R102 Coworking Space
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Speaker Bio
▌Chihhung LIU
Chihhung LIU is an artist that works and lives in Taipei and Japan. His works in recent years have continued to focus on capturing contemporary life experiences and narrative perspectives. His mediums include painting, ceramics, installation, land art, animation, publishing, etc. In recent years, he has actively participated in artist-in-residencies and joined exhibitions abroad, throughout Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Through residency opportunities, he has actively practiced connecting with local contexts through various types of art projects. His works have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and other institutions from home and abroad. He has also won the Shian Aesthetics Award, the first prize of the Taoyuan Art Award, and the Taipei Art Awards.
▌HO Yen-Yen
HO Yen-Yen lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. HO’s works are often inspired by personal experiences through observation of the present. With knowledge of science, specifically astronomy, archaeology, and geography, she presents the metaphorical state of mind through works. HO works with installation, video, sculpture, drawing, and text. Known for creating sites with a narrative atmosphere through memories and emotions evoked by objects, she aims to capture the connections and breaks between reality and fiction by reconstructing and examining spatial-temporal experiences. HO was awarded the honorable mention for the 2024 Taipei Art Awards and the 2017 Next Art Tainan Award and was shortlisted for the 2020 Kaohsiung Award and the 2016 Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award.
▌LIN Yi-Chi
With educational backgrounds in both contemporary art and film production, LIN Yi-Chi’s works take the form of video art, experimental cinema, and video installation. In recent years, LIN’s practice centers on the diaspora experiences within Asian geopolitics. Memories and dreams are collected through field investigation, and the dynamic images are transformed into her medium of necromancy. Individual life narratives are reinterpreted and re-enacted into a re-enchantment scenario, which she employs to summon the marginal voices and reproduce bonds among nationalities, histories, and collective memories. Her works have been exhibited recently at the Jakarta Biennale (2022), the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021), and the Biennale Jogja (2019). Also, LIN has been accoladed with the Special Jury Prize at the Huayu Youth Award (2021), First Prize of the Golden Harvest Awards for Best Experimental Film (2021 & 2019), Finalist at the 16th Taishin Arts Award (2018), First Prize of the Kaohsiung Award (2018), and Honorable Mention of the Taipei Arts Awards (2018).
▌CHEN Kuan-Yu
Formerly a journalist and editor for arts magazine, had curated or participated in several exhibitions and is currently an independent art critic and researcher. In recent years, CHEN was focused on photography, painting, and visual culture. His independent research centers on the critical conditions of contemporary art, examining the emergence, transformation, and development of critical thoughts. He also keeps investigating historical controversies surrounding theory and artistic discourse, and autonomously plan mid- to long-term writing, research, and publication projects on key issues in art and culture. Author of Hiding Place: art writings and other texts.
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