 Credit: 郭耀正 Ishtar Hsu’s works are often presented in shattered images, photographic collages, abstract textures, and zoom-in displays. In the process of creation, she has always indulged herself in questioning the common sense of beauty, keeping trying to break the rules that limit us and the entire society. At present, Ishtar is a freelance graphic designer and also a visual artist, swinging between 3-D objects and 2-D images with various medias that include ready-made items, resin, pottery, moving images, a home printer, collages, and an iPhone 6X that has been dropped for many times.
許韋晨的作品常以破碎的圖像、抽象紋理，或是近距離的觀看展現，沈溺於叩問現實美學框架，並實踐打破與逃離。目前是平面設計師與視覺藝術家，在實體物件與平面影像中來回。善用媒材有現成物件、合成樹脂、陶、動態影像、家用列印機、拼貼與摔了不知道幾次的Iphone 6X。 網站：https://ishtarhsu.com/  Ruby HSIEH I-Hsuan is an independent film curator and critic. She holds a master degree of Anthropology, National Taiwan University. She has more than 6 years work experience in film festivals, managing multiple art and cultural mediation projects. She works as a selection committee for Taipei Film Festival (2019-2021), and a programmer of Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan (2021-). She was the program director for Taoyuan Film Festival (2018) and international competition selection committee at 2022 Taiwan International Documentary Festival.
She is chief editor for Taiwan Documentary E-Paper. As one of the members of Taiwan Film Critics Society, her writings range from interviews, reviews, to essays on films, moving images and the film festival studies with a focus on Taiwan and Southeast Asia. She is a member of Hide & Seek Audiovisual Art, currently developing a research project about film museums / audiovisual archives in Europe and Taiwan. 謝以萱，電影評論、研究與策展。國立臺灣大學人類學碩士，關注當代東南亞電影與視覺藝術發展，以及影展如何作為一文化知識生產的場域。為台灣影評人協會成員，亦為《紀工報》執行主編。連續三年擔任台北電影節國際新導演競賽初選小組（2019-2021）、台灣國際女性影展選片人（2021-）、桃園電影節節目統籌（2018），亦為台灣國際紀錄片影展競賽類初選委員（2022）。參與富邦文教基金會電影學校影像教育等工作。現正進行影音檔案機構之研究調查計畫。  In Chiao Chun's works he normally shows a personal vocabulary that relates to my personal history and background as well as the possibilities and questions in contemporary art and design. He works in a wide variety of media, in which he visualises the human deficiency in drawings, paintings and sculptures, both deeply and lightly. This reflection is both a confrontation and a mix of his personal experience and the contemporary Western culture. The method Itend to use is the combination of sharp observations and the often humorous appearance which also connecting the story of being human with contemporary motifs and materials. This makes him a detective of time, in which his experiences give him a relatively objective perspective to hold a mirror and showing the awkward attempts with the world we relate to (im) possibilities.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/chanchiaochun/ 在我的作品中，我嘗試展示與我自身的歷史背景有相當關係的個人語彙，這同時也反應了當代藝術設計中的可能性和問題。我使用各種各樣的媒材創作，在這些媒材中，我盡可能地在繪畫與雕塑中描繪人類缺陷的形象化。這種反思既是我個人經歷與當代西方文化的對抗，也是一種融合。我傾向於使用的方法是將敏銳的觀察與幽默的呈現相結合，這也將人類的故事、當代的主題和材料互相連結。我成為了時間的偵探，我的經歷給了我一個相對客觀的視角來反射與展示我們生存世界中的任何可能與不可能。 網站：https://www.instagram.com/chanchiaochun/  Chun Yao Lin is a land-based artist who explores various-issue of society through photojournalist experience. Central to his research are mainly focus on “ temporary” and "landscape”, which he used to connect the diverse topics of society, including ownership and politic, post-industrial development. Throughout his practice in using temporary landscapes as a stage, these undefined fields opened up a dialogue in topics.
ChunYao’s works have been shown in the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2019 and a series of works ”I’m going home” which were collected by the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in 2018, He currently lived in Utrecht, Netherlands. Website: linchunyao.com 林俊耀曾以攝影記者為生，目前在荷蘭的烏特列茲藝術學院攻讀藝術碩士，他的作品長期關注於暫時地景的改變與地表的議題，作品嘗試使用暫時地景作為舞台，並打開議題與大眾討論。作品曾在國立台灣美術館展出，系列作品「我要回家了」於2018年被日本清里攝影美術館典藏。 網站：linchunyao.com  Linhuei Chen is a Taiwanese Dutch artist based in Rotterdam. Her experiences of cross-generational diaspora trigger her to question its impact on the family/home context and cultural hybridity through her memories. In her artistic practice, she uses different media such as painting, drawing, text, audiovisual, and together they often form an installation.
Since 2020, she started to experiment on the visualisation of mental images of people with transcultural backgrounds, integrating her expertise in art therapy with her art projects. Through this, she wishes to understand the forming process of cultural hybridity and provide more caring to society. Website: www.linhueichen.eu  Sheng-Wen Lo’s works investigate the relationships between non-humans and contemporary society, often taking daily experiences as points of departure. As a maker his practice comprises still/moving images, installations, video games, escape rooms and various media. He received MA in Photography from AKV|St.Joost in the Netherlands, and MSc in Computer Science from the Computer Music Lab at National Taiwan University. He is is a post-academic alumnus at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2019-2021) in Amsterdam.
Sheng is the creative director of Lightbox, a public photo library and a center for contemporary photography at Taipei. During his residency in Europe, he facilitates connections between Taiwanese and the international contemporary photography scene through talks, discussions, writings, and collaborations. He was selected as Foam Talent (2021), and received fellowships from De Nederlandsche Bank and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/ Prince Claus Fund (2019). Website: https://www.shengwenlo.com |