Taiwanese Arts and Design Exhibition Artwork Lists

Project Manager Yu-Jen Lin 07595 823537 uji@ual.taiwanese.co.uk http://theformosa.blogspot.com

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Craig Kao

Painting Ling-Ting, Kao Pink Legend 2010 Mixed Media 25cm x 30cm x 1.5cm Ideas from the 1969 .

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Pei-Chen Wu My inspiration came from Olafur Eliassons statement of All works are made by layers and layers of decisions. I would like to create a piece of work which does the opposite, illustrating that a masterpiece could be created by a collection of random decisions. For this piece of work, I would like to illustrate the relationships or links between myself and my family. Being brought up from a Buddhism background, we believe in past and present life and karma. We also believe that we have known each other for more than one life but in different relationship setting. The work begins with inviting five family members to try different types of nuts that are commonly eaten during Chinese New Year. I then ask them to randomly throw the empty nutshells and stones into the grid on the floor. The throwaway parts have formed some interesting patterns which were not thought of before. I also took part in the video and these patterns were used to discover the inter-relationship between my family and me.

http://theformosa.blogspot.com/2010/04/candidate-pei-chen-wu.html

15 Installation Installation with Timeless Rain Sound Installation see DVD1 Folder Sound & Video, No.15 Timeless rain.mp3

Yen-Ting Hsu

Time is running with rain and river. Time is stuck with rain and river as well. Whilst recording the ritual of Tsou (Aborigine in Taiwan), Yen-Ting Hsu and her collaborator were stranded in the Alishan mountain because of Typhoon Morakot. Such experience has led her to create Timeless Rain, an exploration of time and a reflection on personal / collective memory.

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Fan chiao ling

Self-portrait (three pictures are eye, nose, eye) destruction leads to construction, thus through the action of curving /destroying , the inner-self meanwhile emerging ,and the light revealed. Explain the process of self-recognition, wondering, dubitable, affirmative The work will be installed with light -box

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Michael Wu Many effects are imprinted onto a person who is within a particular culture and once it is applied it is very difficult to remove, one may put on a disguise and live in another character however there are occasions where they revert back to being the original. Hence I used this opportunity to express the personal point of view of a minoritys requirement to integrate into a different culture. Also probably to a lesser extend, I believe to others this will echo the struggle of the conflicting nature of a persons individuality against the expectation of their society. I focus more on the mask and face painting I begin to relate to the mask itself. I can see the struggle between playing a character and being ones self, and through my experiences I found the subject to be one I like to pursue further.

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People say our tribe is like the setting sun - going to disappear slowly behind the landscape very soon. From now on I want to use my hand to show the colour and vibrancy of our culture on my canvases, so that this may build up our ancestoral awareness again - like the sun rising up with its full original strength and colours - hopefully!

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From 1940s to 1990s Mandarin was promoted as the main language of Taiwan, with restrictions on the use of all other languages inforced in the media, schools and public life. I remember as a child at school, if we were caught speaking our mother tongue rather than Mandarin, we were punished either by a fine or by having to wear a sticker saying that we were unpatriotic and did not love our country enough! With this cultural destruction over several decades, and with none of our young generation now speaking aboriginal languages as their first language, it may be that this aspect of our culture is gone forever.

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Chin Chang (Ava)

The one who is absent: Marcel Duchamp I never talked with you in person.- Hsiao Tao, who is hurt

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CHAO MIN-TZU A Way to Read the Life Stories through the Wedding Dresses of Taiwanese Women from 1884 to 2009. A map not only shows geographical locations, but also tells stories. Symbols are used extensively in a map in order to convey information and to achieve visual communication. In this project, modern symbolism is used to interpret times in which Taiwanese women in four generations were born, lived and married. It seeks to understand the life experiences of Taiwanese women in a traditional, patriarchal Han society, and to unveil these womens courageous spirit. Furthermore, by reviewing the history of social changes, political interventions and womens lives in the past few hundreds years in Taiwan, it helps to comprehend womens ever-changing lives in modern Taiwan. An understanding of Confucianism helps us to understand Taiwanese womens situations over this time-span. In a traditional Confucianism society, the value of paternity was emphasised, and the images of macho men and meek women were favoured. A son was valued higher than a daughter, and education opportunities for women were restricted. Foot binding had been considered fashionable for centuries, since it made a woman looked delicate and frail. Also related to the harm of womens body were the comfort women (army prostitute) to serve the Japanese army in World War II when Taiwan was occupied by Japan. After the Japanese occupation era, while Taiwanese started to gain their national initiative, social status of women also started to improve because of the rise of feminism. Today, globalisation has brought even more changes to modern womens life in Taiwan

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 YU-EN HSIEH

Could Sleuthing out scent, hair remnants and dead letters lead us to the life someone had here? Since moving into this flat in south London two years ago, I have been receiving letters addressing to someone named Catherine every now and then. I kept all of them in a box, which belonged to her. But one time, by chance, I unwrapped a parcel and found her resume lay inside, which allowed me to inform myself of all her experience. She is a British actress, having been cast in Les Misrables and The Sound of Music, being able to do more than twenty accents. The acting resume even tells about her height and hair colour. What was interesting about it was that Id never gotten to know someone this way. I then opened the letters and parcels that Id saved in the box for over a year, in an attempt to piece together her life. There were birthday presents from friends, check, bills, cash, etc. Through all these things, I gradually found out about her birthday, her recent situation, her everyday life and her love. Later, I went to the school shed done her drama training in, to watch musicals shed performed in. I found the bed sheet she left in our room and I threw everything I collected and experienced about her on it. So, there laid her memories and the trace of her life on the bed in her room. I will go on to piece together everything about her bit by bit.

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Kenyon YEH
This project seeks to create personal identity from ubiquitous uniformity. I have assembled the pieces from a standard IKEA flat pack without following the instructions. Instead, I have simply composed the kits into customized furniture to suit my personal preference, adding some new details along the way. The process is liberating and brings a limitless attitude of possibility to the flat pack market. LOPA is a bookstand, features four legs, which have been colored in black. The structure is a single piece and is divided into three segments that are interconnected. BRIA is a double rhombus-like structure, which has been interconnected in a way that appears as though one of the rhombuses is being derived out of the other. It has four legs, which have been give a contrasting blue colour. Ideal for stacks of books, BRIA is a unique take on the common bookcase. KENN features three major quadrilateral shapes and a triangular niche created by the intersection of the three 4-sided parts of this piece. Two red feet support one end, while the other side rests on the angled corner of the rightmost rhomboid. DALT the bookrack is a two pieces structure featuring geometric shapes. The rack has two legs of contrasting green color installed on one side, while the other side is balanced with the help of a secondary structure.

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Inspired by Picassos sculpture work having an androgynous element twist. Fallow by breaking down the jacket with different kind of cotton stripe fabric.

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Hsi - Chi, the crockery set for the guests during the wedding feast, is designed by using the outline of the piled-up figure of the crockery to show the graphics of the chinese character,

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85 Mei-Hui Liu

Fashion Video Installation

The story based on four seasons changing with Victims clothes blooming in the trees. The idea is using recycle fabric to create beautiful eco friendly fashion.

95 Jill HC Tsai Concept/idea explanation (less than 150 words) An extension of my existing recycled art project. I have reused these unwanted objects to create something visually fun and interesting thus reminding everyone to cherish the materials we have before throwing them away. Objects I find are illustrated with an appropriate environmental message, adjusting perceptions and turning the old into new. Lets create something new- lets start Recycling Art.

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Yaojen Chuang http://www.yaojenchuang.com/projects_opium.html

Digital Print with Video on screen

Part of the project entitled Chronicles of a Cure The project explores the ephemeral, poly-sensorial experiences of the body, based on Jean Cocteaus 1952 book Opium. Through an ongoing research into digital algorithms and simulations, environments were derived through a series of exploratory spatial collages that correspond and capture these transient notions such as; a sense of sacredness, weightlessness, the disintegration of the boundaries between the body and its surroundings along with the spaces that engage these saturated emotions and the heightened senses. The work inspects how the mythical sense of illusions and dreams can be spatially constructed, incorporating playful manipulation of liquid, vapour, light and shadow.

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Paohan Chen

http://www.vimeo.com/8162990

Illustration drawing with Video Installation.

This animation is from a personal project. Starting from my own interest about the relationship between head and mouth. It was inspired by my studying experience in the UK. As an overseas student from Taiwan, because of different culture environment and language barrier I have to wear a mask as my confident protector to avoid the misunderstanding embarrassment when I communicate with people. According to this situation, my project content is more about how do people communicate with others with their own mask as a lie between each other? How to make a perfect undoubted lie between people? And how do they express their mind into words. This animation present how do people communicate with each other as a magic show? Communication is not only like the cunning magician but also the silly magician assistants are making all the audients become foolish.

53 CHIEN-NI HUNG

Video Installation on Screen http://www.vimeo.com/10744598

Welcome Home is fundamentally a critique of modern Taiwanese families; it shows how an ordinary and dysfunctional family lives their absurd, day-to-day life without taking living itself into consideration.

Video Installation on Screen An-Li Chen

The film is based on the sense and space of isolation in urban life. Structuralist style is used to construct various continuous sequences. The narrative is about a person how to occupy different spaces in a city/London. Narrative: When I sat down at the table near by a window in a caf shop. I looked at outside. A lot of people and cars passed through. I was writing my diary. I listened to the undertone of noises, and looked at the refection of myself from the window. When I was seeing through my reflection, there was a bus passed by. I saw another reflection of mine on the bus. The reflections of my images were constantly overlapped and overlapped by seeing reflections from different objects. Through reflections, images of mine were transformed and twisted. It seems to me that I was isolated by the glass. 45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9YiiA1l8-w 46 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3NqqMI7Qo

56 Rosy Tsai From script to typography / From theatre to design Background I used to express the script through acting while I was in theatre. After I changed my field to design, I started using typography to express the text. Somehow, I find there is something interesting between the transformations. Even though I am now in a different area, still I am dealing with the interpretation of words/lines. Exploring the potential of theatre lines to move beyond the constraints of linguistic system, reflecting the true complexity of communication and creating a typographic solution will be my intention to this project. Chosen script Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Now I am burning your child, Thea. You, with your curly hair. Your child and Ejlert Lovborgs. Im burning it - burning your child.