Join exhibiting artists and curators of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition to to gain an understanding of historical ink painting traditions and artmaking today in Taiwan. Panelists will include Taipei-based Yao Jui-Chung, who will be an artist-in-residence on campus (November 3–7).
Artists:
• Chen Chun-Hao
• Wu Chi-Tsung
• Yao Jui-Chung
Moderator:
• Kao Chien-Hui
**With a special performance of "The Breathing of an Island" by Wu Tsan-Cheng. Drawing on Taiwan's changing soundscapes from the coast to the mountains, Wu creates a sonic portrait of the island, inviting audiences to experience its landscapes through listening.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Chen Chun-Hao (陳浚豪) recreates classical painting with mosquito nails, thumbtacks, and industrial materials, transforming brushwork, texture strokes, and qi into metallic points and repetitive bodily labor.
Kao Chien-Hui (高千惠) is a Taiwanese art critic, curator, writer, researcher, and educator whose interests span modern and contemporary East Asian art, cultural criticism, curatorial practices, and the relationship between aesthetics and ideology.
Wu Chi-Tsung (吳季璁) works across photography, video, installation, and painting, often using light, time, and everyday materials to reconstruct landscape texture strokes through poetic media experiments.
Wu Tsan-Cheng (吳燦政) centers his practice on field recordings, environmental soundscapes, and online mapping, using sound as a medium for sensing land, cities, and changes in time.
Yao Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) works across photography, painting, installation, performance, and publishing, often using humor, appropriation, and critique to address history, ruins, power, and the imagination of landscape.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Ink Shower was curated by Kai-Ching Hsiao, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National University of the Arts, and Maureen Warren, Curator of European and American Art, Krannert Art Museum. The exhibition was produced in collaboration with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, with special thanks to Director Matt Winters and Associate Director Yuchia Chang. Ink Shower is organized by InART Space and Krannert Art Museum. Advised by Jamie Tu, Rita Chang, Chien-Hui Kao, Yu-Chia Chang.
Made possible with grant support from the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Center for Advanced Study MillerComm Lecture Series; and Illinois Arts Council. Additional funding is provided by the J. Fred and Donna Giertz Exhibition Support Fund.
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