WANG Chun-Chi

Berlin,Germany and Paris, France and Taipei, Taiwan

WANG Chun-Chi is a Taiwanese artist and Curator based in Berlin. She received Grand Prize Winners of Interactive Art in Taipei Digital Art Festival (2007) and Selected in Taipei Fine Arts Award (2008). She was artist-in-residence at CAMAC/Marnay Art Center (France,2007), Boundary Break-Through project (London,2008) and CTM-Curatorial project (Berlin,2009). Her recent projects included organizing WEEKEND Project 2010-11(Berlin), exhibition Urban Flashes in partner event of DAS Weekend/transmediale.11(Berlin), co-organizing public art exhibition PARASITE 2006 (Taipei), and a collective and intergenerational investigation of feminism in the context of contemporary art practice that included a symposium, exhibition, and lecture. Other recent exhibition curated include IMMATERIAL Project (Paris,2012), LIQUIDSHELL (Berlin,2011), Edition N.1-WONDERLAND (Berlin,2011), TANGIBLE INTANGIBLE (Berlin,2010) and Future Guide to the Web (New York,2001). She is the founder and director of IDOLONSTUDIO (Berlin). Wang is a Curator-in-residence at the Cité International des Arts Paris in France (2011-12).

My role is to develop ideas that lead into a collaborative process-based working relationship with artists to examine issues I consider crucial, such as: critically assessing contemporary culture, investigating the way meaning is constructed, endowing the world with complexity at a time when the surface is rarely scratched and time is short. My curatorial voice endeavors to make people re-think, slow down, delve beneath the surface and to excavate rather than simply consume. It does not summarize or offer answers; rather it asks questions that hopefully will lead to contemplation, discussion, and new thoughts about the world around us.

IMMATÉRIEL DE PROJET (2012) Hold conceptual dimensions: The invited artists tended to construction with varied materials and de-materialized media; though their art work was still precise, rich and intelligent. What was ultimately denoted by all the artworks was humanity- an individual’s reflections upon themselves and the outside world. The exhibition are brings together of Photographics / Visual and Sound Installation : “Variations for graphite/ Icosahedron” by Atsunobu Kohira(JP), “Lavage” by Anna-Sabina Zürrer(CH), “Everlasting the same” by Kim Westerström (SE) and “The Magic Mountain” by Marie Jager(DK).

WEEKEND Project (2010-11.Berlin) was a site-specific art project, generated through research and interpretation of the site’s unique cultural matrix. The artists were invited to propose ideas or concepts for developing performances or an installation. WEEKENDHAUS was a 10 session project in which 10 artists were invited to submit works dealing with the traditional family home. The exhibition took place in an inhabited apartment. WEEKENDSOUND was a sound project that allowed an artist to perform in a live concert. WEEKENDMENU invited an artist to create a series of food installations. Participating artists included: Alexej Paryla (DE), Brian Bixby (USA), Chaong-Wen Ting (TW), Chien-Ni Hung (TW), Crik Fermont (BE),Irene Pascual(SE), James T.Hong (USA), James Edmonds (UK), Midori Hirano (JP), Olaf Hochners (DE), Sohrab (IR),Panko Stoitschev (DE), Yan Yun (CN), Lan Hungh (TW), Yin-Ju Chen (TW), St&St (DE).

Exhibition Urban Flashes Project in cooperation with DAS Weekend/transmediale.11:
Urban Flashes included four session exhibitions. The exhibition explored the work of four groups of artists involved in new media, such as: light, sound, new technology and installations. Contemporary artists were invited to play freely with materials and forms. They constructed laboratories of perception, focusing on human perception and the ability to manipulate and condition it. The artists worked with a direct reference to the modern environment and used its artifacts, such as strobe lights and spotlights, to create light spaces situated between sensual experience and scientific experiment. The spatial and temporal structures were deconstructed by means of projection. Participating artists included: Yao Chung-Han (TW), Tim Vets (BE), YiLab(TW), Jamie Allen(CA) .

LIQUIDSHELL (2011) brought together of “Sound Disc” by WANG Fujui(TW), “Foreground” by Shingo Inao(JP), “Vibration Lake” by LIN Kuo-Wei/ SUMO STUDIO(DE), “Relativity +/- RAW” by CHANG Yung-Ta(TW), “Window, Projector and Magnifying Blinds” by Kim Westerström(SE) and “Permeable Super Real” by Elke Marhöfer(DE) /sound by Olaf Hochherz(DE).

TANGIBLE INTANGIBLE (2010) brought together film and digital video by eight contemporary artists: “As you shout into the forest, so it echoes back” by St. & St. , “End Transmission” by Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong, “WILDLAND” by Valérie Leray & Chun-chi Wang, and “Five Regulations” by Chaong-Wen Ting & Chien-Ni Hung.

Edition N.1-WONDERLAND (2011) brought together film and digital video by six contemporary artists : “Kreppa” by Klaus Taschler (AT), “Reveries in a Small World” by Yin-Ju Chen (TW/USA) & James T.Hong (USA), “Memory of a Desert Journey” by Brian Bixb (USA) & Jeffers Egan (USA) & Midori Hirano (JP).

PARASITE (Taipei Public Art Festival, Taiwan, 2006): Parasite was a parallel site to the physical location, adding a sense of a virtual community in real space. The Chinese title (fei-chang-le-yuan) has a double meaning: a super paradise and a theme park. The parasite was nourished by the local community, but created its own infrastructure: bar, hotel, cinema, kitchen or restaurant, farm, temple and theater. All of these elements were created by artists, an urban planner, a designer and ecological specialists and were intended for temporary use. The new community supported the site to attract visitors and put it back on the map of places to visit. “The last green field of Taipei” was intended to become a camping site, holiday resort and a place to linger. Artists were asked to contribute to the new infrastructure by providing new temporary facilities or programs. The local community was integrated and involved in the new parallel site. Participating artists included: Matt Mullican (USA), Paul Sermon (UK), Andreas Strauss (AT), Fabien Lerat (FR), e-Xplo (AT), Markus Seidl/Elisabeth Schimana (AT), Jessica Findley (USA), Du Wei (TW), Arthur Cai (USA/TW) Mina Quian (TW), Ju-Yi Lin/ Quian-Wei Liu (TW).

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Art in public space, Art and science, New media, Artistic research