Lee Ming-Chieh – 李明潔

“No matter which mediums I use, if I can keep finding something I feel curious about then I will keep going for choreography.”

Lee Ming-Chieh

Ming-chieh Lee is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan often focusing on the dynamic of body, object and other things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity shaped between body and specific space. We cover;

  • Dancing in public spaces
  • Inaccuracies becoming a new style for choreography
  • Fruitful limitations
  • Making experiments in many different fields
  • The specificity of environment
  • Using choreography to explore your body
  • Study at TNUA
  • Collaborating with drama and musical directors
  • Working across mediums
  • Mixed reality choreography
  • How to decide what is worth watching
  • Choreographing time
  • The work referenced at 49:20

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Wu Dar-kuen – 吳達坤

M@ and Wu Dar-kuen in the sound recording studio at C-LAB 2022

“Artists are like magicians”

Wu Dar-kuen

Wu Dar-kuen is an artist and Independent curator, now the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab(C-LAB). He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator.

He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism.

In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury’s Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OCT-LOFT Shenzhen(2017),Imagining Memorial at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (2017).Wu Dar-Kuen is an artist and Independent curator ,now is the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab(C-LAB). He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator. He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism. In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury’s Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OCT-LOFT Shenzhen(2017),Imagining Memorial at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (2017). We cover:

  • Centring Asia
  • media/new media
  • making art
  • curating
  • C-LAB
  • The value of travelling when young
  • Video Arts Salon
  • Illusion Theatre
  • Residencies
  • TNUA

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Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈

“How can I do?”

Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈

Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈 – is a choreographer, dancer and performer Born in 1984 in Tainan, Taiwan, focusing her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. We discuss;

  • Growing up in Tainan
  • How to choreograph
  • Collaborating with technology
  • Making the invisible, visible
  • Dancing as a verb – something to do.
  • What is the first dance step?
  • Impulse/inspiration/intuition/desire
  • “How do we tune the intuition?” And make it relevant?
  • Pre-conditions
  • Dancing for each other vs the audience
  • Thinking and feeling
  • Making it safe to ask dancers to share themselves during collaboration
  • Building a belief in the piece
  • Digital as choreographic context
  • Collaborating with virtual currency via kinetic light sculpture
  • Misusing motion-capture
  • Fighting against the digital as a way to develop choreography
  • The things that we know that we don’t even know that we know.

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