Artists
Photo Credit: NIU Chun-Chiang
SU Wen-Chi
SU Wen-Chi
| Location | France / Paris |
|---|---|
| Residency | Cité Internationale des Arts |
| Year of the Grant | 2011 |
| Work | 身體輿圖 |
| Personal Website | SU Wen-Chi's Personal Website |
Trained in Taiwan as dancer and afterward in new media art, Wen-Chi has been working between Taiwan and Belgium. 2002-2012, she was the core members of the Belgium’s Kobalt Works contemporary dance company, in 2005 she found YiLab. in Taiwan, an experimental group of new media performance. Since 2002 Wen-Chi engages in an ongoing discourse that confront her own artistic and cultural background with her experiences in Europe. Since 2007 her artistic research has shift to combining dance with plastic art and new media art, she created a dance installation “Attention Travaux” (2007), multi-media performances “LOOP ME” (2009), “ReMove Me”(2010), “W.A.V.E.” (2011) and “Off the Map”(2012) . She also collaborated in the project of Taiwan Quanta Tech Art & Performance Festival《L’apres-midi de la Gravite》as movement designer, Kobalt Works《1001》(2010) as co-montage of 16mm film, and Belgium Culture exchange platform “Monsoon”(2010) as documentary film maker.
Artist Statement:
There were many artists, scholars, curators, professors, and other arts-related professionals from many different countries living in Cite' Internationale des Arts. Even if two people were from the same country, they might very well represent two different art organizations, government institutions, or academic institutions accepting different types of grants and staying for different periods of time.
Cite' Internationale des Arts is located in downtown Paris. It is convenient located for visiting other tourist destinations and museums. The neighboring area, Le Marais, had a thriving nightlife and was where many Jewish activities took place. Within the area was Centre Pompidou, an art museum providing updated information in the arts as well as exhibiting contemporary shows, screening new films, and organizing performance programs. Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, a research center devoted to studying the digitization of sound and music, is located next to Centre Pompidou. It conducts research in the recording of classical music, the control and spatial design for digital sound spheres, literature written about sounds, and the composition and performance of digital music. The center provides an excellent research platform for artists that are interested in digital art and music (www.ircam.fr).
I had already been a resident artist at Cite' Internationale des Arts before, so this time I familiarized myself with the hardware and support provided by the residency program fairly quickly. Cite' Internationale des Arts did not provide spaces and services for dance rehearsals, so once again I sought assistance from the neighboring studio Micadanses (www.micadanses.fr) for their dance studio.
Aside from visiting shows, performances, movie screenings, music events, etc. during the residency, I also took the advantage of being in Europe and participated in art festival performances and exhibitions in France, Germany, and Switzerland. I was in the Southern town of Toulouse, France, for a performance in the ‘Made in Asia’ Festival in January. In February, I was in a group show, City Flash, at LEAP Gallery in Berlin, Germany. In May, I performed at the Mapping Festival in Genova, Switzerland, the Hasselt Superbodies Festival in Belgium, and the Toulon Constellation Festival in Toulon, a mediterranean town in Southern France. I had a group show with my fellow Taiwanese artists-in-residence CHIU Chen-Hung and HUANG Bo-Hao at Cite' Internationale des Arts in June, and was invited to be one of the jurors in the Watch & Talk program as part of the Friburg Festival Belluard Bollwerk International Art Festival, Switzerland in July.