Past Residents

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Past Resident
2021: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Curator

Yu-Ling Chou

Chou Yu-Ling’s research focuses on visual culture, moving images’ curation and curatorial methodology. She was a curator of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts where she organized the 2018 Taiwan Biennial titled Wild Rhizome that looked at the cultural legacy of a theatre group who self-published Theatre Quarterly, an avant-garde magazine that circulated during 1960s in Taiwan.

Chou Yu-Ling has curated shows at Peltz Gallery, London; Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2021 Summer Open House

July 28, 2021, 3–9pm

2021 Spring Open Studios

April 27–April 28, 2021

Kao Chung-li, The Man with the Moving Projector, 2015, mixed media, installation view at Peltz Gallery, London

The Other Cinema Collective, Every Film is an Enigma: Moving Images in the Black Box and White Cube, 2017, mixed media, installation view at Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan

Kao Chung-li, Kao Chung-li and Experimental Film in Taiwan, 2015, mixed media, installation view at LUX Salon, London

Wild Rhizome, The Glamorous Boys of Tang, 2018, mixed media, installation view at Taiwan Beinnale, 2018

The Other Cinema Collective, Every Film is an Enigma: Moving Images in the Black Box and White Cube, 2017, mixed media, installation view at Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan

Residents from Taiwan

Huang I-Hsiang

A Practice of Silence begins with a vague visual impression, the administrative figure of the Absolute Space, a silent presence always sitting in the corner of the exhibition venue. Her work is a series of interpretations, empathy, and understanding. She is always there, yet hard to notice. She is the caretaker of the venue, and I want to depict such a character. My curiosity lies in her physical and psychological relationship with the venue; my curiosity wonders why she is here and whether she has ever thought about leaving. In short, everything related to this job, including emotions and circumstances. During the exhibition, I invited theater practitioner Tseng Jing-Wen, who is dedicated to promoting People's Theatre, along with former administrative staff from Absolute Space who worked here at different times, to conduct a body workshop. My basic idea is, the arrival of newcomers marks the departure of the old, and the interchange between new and old forms the life of a character. These participants, through shared memories, will engage in a self- dialogue belonging to this character during the workshop. Finally, on the last day of the exhibition, we held a screening event showcasing the workshop's video documentation at the venue.

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #210

Feng-Yi Chu

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #302

Hung-Yen Chang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2023

Finland

Past Resident
2021: Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation

Artist

Shoji Kato

Shoji Kato works with diverse mediums including paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations, and situations; at times, he employs sound, music, and moving images as well. This range reflects Kato’s multiscalar and multi-faceted approaches to the theme that he calls the ‘location of subjectivity.’ The artist explores ideas that are neither bounded to physical bodies and places. Moving between abstract and figurative thinking, Kato works with both solid and elusive materials to invite imagination and meditation about the interplay of collective movements and individual moments.

Shoji Kato has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland; Kanazu Forest of Creation Museum, Japan; and Beijing International Art Biennale, China, among others.

Shoji Kato, Kalpa | Bedrock | Fibroin, 2020, rose gold on cast silver, aluminum, silk fabric, and drill core sample from Onkalo, silk fabric: 110 × 1491/2 in. (279.4 × 379.73 cm), diameter of bedrock cores: 2 × 77/8 in. (5.08 × 20 cm)

Shoji Kato, Reaching, 2018-2019, public event: composed with buildings, climbers, safety devices, trumpet player, printed matters, text, images, clothes, hand honed spectrolite in hand made wooden case, variable dimensions

Residents from Finland

Hans Rosenström

Nestled within a small grove in Regent’s Park, Unfolding Silence offers an intimate space for listening. In here, the disembodied voices of the Echo Vocal Ensemble subtly emerge, blending in with the surrounding soundscape.

Finland

Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation

Studio #208

Felipe de Ávila Franco

The work operates through an automated electro-mechanic system that alludes to the astronomic event that inspired the title of the work, through the contrast of light and recycled lubricant oil. The work integrates the collection of the Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma.

Brazil, Finland

Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation

2023

Anssi Pulkkinen

A steel railing which vibrates in an alternating pattern. Rather than guiding or leading the viewer, the railing creates an element of uncertainty. Through the changing mechanical movement, the railing suggests a scene in a mobile environment, such as a train or a ship.

Finland

Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation

2022

Russia

Past Resident
2021: AES+F

Artist

Aslan Goisum

Aslan Goisum tends to mine memory–collective and personal, political and cultural–for clues about colonial realities, how they have been endured and how they might be undone. Identities come into play in his work, as embodied effects of violence perpetrated or unfreedom suffered but also as possible openings, new beginnings. So far, his prime artistic tools have been the moving image, sculptural installation and various paper-based techniques.

Aslan Goisum has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; and Kohta, Helsinki, among others.