Artist-in-Residence Program_Time/Space, Ruins/Utopias, Collective Annihilation and Collective Living: Seeing the Works of Chen Chieh-jen

The 16^th NCCU Artist-in-Residence Program

Art on the Periphery, and the Periphery of Art -- Chen Chieh-jen’s residence at NCCU

【Artist-in-Residence Lecture Series】

Time/Space, Ruins/Utopias, Collective Annihilation and Collective Living: Seeing the Works of Chen Chieh-jen

• Date & Time: 03/05/2016 19:00-21:00
• Venue: Art Hub, NCCU Art & Culture Center
• Speaker:Amy Cheng (Independent Curator) 

This lecture attempts to explore the following themes in the Chen Chieh-jen’sLingchi: Echoes of A Historical Photograph and later films: the narration of time and space, the relationship between history and ruins, the collective living and destruction of people under modernity, as well as the broader theme in his works of creating a philosophy of life and resistance under the shroud of capitalism and modernity.

Amy Cheng｜
Independent curator and the head of “TheCube Project Space.” Cheng lives and works in Taipei. She has curated the exhibitions: 54th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion “The Heard and the Unheard explores Taiwan’s Social Soundscape” (2011), “Re-envisioning Society”-Visual Art Project (2011~2013, Taipei), “Shamans and Dissent: Artist Dispatch Project Exhibition” (2013, Hanart Square HK), and co-curated: “Melancholy in Progress: 2012 The 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition” (2012), “ALTERing NATIVism sound cultures in post-war Taiwan” (2014, Taipei and Kaohsiung). She was the co-founder with Jeph Lo in establishing“TheCube Project Space”in 2010, a project which aims to cultivate local culture, build up long term cooperation with artists, and develop a network of Taiwanese contemporary art with worldwide art sectors.