Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

Han-Fang Wang is an independent curator and art worker. In 2019, she received a grant as a resident curatorial fellow for the Taiwan Pavilion at Performa 19 in New York, and in 2022, she collaborated with En-Man Chang and Ting Tsou in the project of Floating System for Snails: Project Invasion in documenta fifteen. Her recent curatorial projects include: Still Life Sonata: Wang Yahui Solo Exhibition, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan (2021); Mercurial Boundaries: Imagining Future Memory, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan (2019); and the 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition: Offline Browser (curated by Hsu Chia-Wei and Hsu Fong-Ray), assistant curator, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2018).

Intrigued by the facade of contemporary life, Wang ponders the changing states of human experiences, and conducts relevant research that tests her hypotheses regarding the direction in which humanity moves. She is profoundly concerned about the ways technology, civilization, and knowledge redefine humanity and its relationship with the world. At the same time, she contemplates how technology, as a form of social infrastructure, plays a role in the individual’s perceptual experience, the construction of their subjectivity, as well as life as a collective and as a society in the future.

Joyce Ho (b.1983, Taiwan) received her M.A. in studio arts from the University of Iowa. She is an interdisciplinary artist, focusing specifically on moving image, installation, and performance. With an illusion rich in light and shadow, the artistic conception aims to integrate the deconstructed movements and fragmented slices of daily routines. As such, the artist endeavors, whether in painting, installation or video, to convey an intimate, yet alienated tensions between human beings and reality. The singularly intensive creation simultaneously captivates and confronts viewers, which almost renders a quotidian moment into a piece of landscape or a ritual.

Kosta Tonev (b. 1980, Bulgaria) is a visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. He received a BA degree from the National Academy of Art in Sofia and an MA degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the years that followed, his work expanded beyond his initial training as a painter to include performative and text-based approaches, employing the media of photography, video, installation and sound. His interests in language and storytelling are closely linked to the field of artistic research. He constructs narratives involving references to music, film, intellectual discourse, and popular culture. Drawing on his own experiences or an alter ego he has invented, he often addresses issues around history and politics in a humorous and playful way. In the process, the artist renders a complex archaeology of the present, told in the first person.

Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, New York) is considered a key figure of the Pictures Generation, whose work investigates how individuals shape their self-image based on outside influencers during an age of mass media. The moving image works and installations created by her use of color, sound, and movement to examine cultural signs and subjectivity, particularly with regard to labor, leisure and gender. Since the mid-1970s, Beckman has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Her creations are playfully satirical and critical at the same time, and by incorporating various structural elements and the logics of games and fairytales, she has established unconventional structures and rules, while also profoundly exploring issues on topics such as others and identity, as well as power and control.

Chang Yun Han’s (b.1985, Taiwan) art practice focuses on the subtle invisibilities in everyday life. Through her observation in different cities or societies, she explores those common but differentiated experiences between individuals and collectives that were waiting to be named. Her creation tries to examine how these differentiations are constructed, and she rephrases those stories through different mediums and methods. She believes that art lives in reality, and through imagination human beings could create potential breaches to broaden perception.

The artistic practice of Chang Wen-Hsuan (b.1991, Taiwan) questions the narrative structure of institutionalised history with re-readings, re-writing, and suggestions of fictional alternatives. To expose the power tensions embedded in historical narratives is a way of managing the relationships and dynamics between individual stories and the writing of history. Through versatile platforms including installations, videos, and lectures, she often navigates skewed documentations and first-person accounts to trigger reflections on how the understanding of history affects the purport of the present and thrust of the future. In 2018, she launched the project Writing FACTory.

Lindsay Seers works in London and lives on the Isle of Sheppey. She is best known for her performances, video installations and the hundreds of images she has produced using her own body as a camera. Her works explore complex ideas and situations through elliptical narratives that are shaped by an evolving set of connections and coincidences that the act of making evokes. Concerned with the nature of consciousness, Seers’ research is influenced profoundly by the philosopher Henri Bergson and the neuroscientists Chris Frith and Anil Seth. Seers is diagnosed with autism and neurodiverse. This reflects in her art works which shows an excess of multiplicity and complexity.