Visual artist and researcher of contemporary art theory based in Taiwan and the Netherlands.
She has worked at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab as a coordinator and researcher and has since also cooperated with Taipei Digital Art Center and TheCube Project Space.
Besides research, she organizes and leads art education programs and creative workshops. She gave lectures at Lightbox PhotoLibrary and taught art courses at Onfoto Studio (Creative Photography Education Institution)
She completed her bachelor in Philosophy at National Taiwan University, before going on to graduate at the Film and Photographic Studies master at Leiden University(NL) with the thesis “The Treatment of Time in Cinema: A Case Study of Cinema of Long Take, Tsai-Ming Liang’s Stray Dogs (2013) and What Time Is It There? (2001)” employing a Deleuzian framework.
b. 1974, France/Taiwan.
Background in musique concrète and improvisation, using found objects, electroacoustic devices and phonographies.
As a sound recordist, he has particular interest for animals or nature sounds as well as urban/industrial situations and unusual acoustic phenomena. Excursions are pretext to a sonic gathering, and often leads to the realization of phonographic collages. He often collaborates with other musicians, visual artists and dancers, producing audio-visual performances, publications or installations. He is also an independent and awarded sound designer and sound mixer for cinema: documentary films, short films, fiction and experimental cinema.
He has based in Taiwan since 2007, interested into the field of anthropology and ecology, exploring the island's soundscape through artistic research, developing art projects in local communities (Hakka, Atayal) and documenting the fauna and its environment, creating art & science projects in collaborations with biologists. He has been involved in projects related to coral reefs in Penghu and mountain forests in Northern Taiwan.
Born and raised in Tainan, Sean Tully Hsu is a Butoh dancer and a student of Kazuo Ohno. He specializes in Butoh, modern dance, theater, and performance art, and works across choreography, performance, teaching, and consulting. His works are often based on the pure white body of Butoh, interpreted in a depressing, brutal, or painful way, touching the viewer through uncovered exposure and soul-searching questions.
Through human voices, spoken or sung, Emma Dusong seeks living experiences for the visitors. Since 2004, she has written mainly for her own voice. In 2020, she began to compose for other people’s voices to enrich her sound installations with various vocal colors.
Born in 1982 in France, Emma Dusong is based in Paris and Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. A graduate from the Superior National School of Fine Arts of Paris with honors of the jury, she is also a doctor in Sciences of Arts and Aesthetics and a University Senior lecturer. She writes about singing in contemporary art and cinema.
Since the early 2000s, she has shown her work in France and abroad (Centre Pompidou Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Louis Vuitton cultural space, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Cultural Foundation of Tinos…). She regularly has solo shows such as Free voice in Galerie Les filles du calvaire in 2019 and in arts centers (CRAC Occitanie, Sète, CAIRN, Digne-les-Bains) in 2016. Her works are collected by public institutions as well as private collections such as the Maison Bernard endowment fund for which she made an in situ vocal piece for Antti Lovag’s architecture.
In 2008, she received the agnès b. prize for her work. In 2017, Annette Messager (Golden Lion Award winner) presented her work in Annette Messager's favorites, a documentary for the French/German television channel arte. In 2020, she was appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. She was in residency at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2020-2021.
When Islands Dream is her first group show in Taiwan.
Born in Hualien in 1994, Wang Yu-Song is currently a student at the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan. He received a B.A. in printmaking from the School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts in 2016, and graduated from Hualien Senior High School in 2012. A mixed-media artist, he aims at exploring various possibilities of creation in everyday lives through lived experience and personal observations. During his college years, Wang was devoted to pondering the respective medium specificity of painting and printmaking, and at the same time attempted to come close to the essence of things with artistic practices other than these two mediums. His works often incorporate affects, physical sensations, and spatial elements. His recent works focus on the “past” that has existed, the “now” that is happening, and the “future” that may take place. Wang likes to explore the ambiguous zone between fiction and reality through his own living environment, lived experience, and to a greater extent, social consciousness and relationships in groups. Through objects, images or particular spatial configurations, his works invite the viewers to open up all their senses and read and interpret the works with their own imagination.
