The Interest from the Street Corner

2024 / 10 / 12 Sat.

2024 / 12 / 08 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

  • Curator

    Sandwishes Studio

  • Artists

    Kaoru Tanaka
    Chih-Hua Chiu
    Yen-Ju Lin
    Wing-Yu Luk
    Pin-Ling Huang
    Hsien-Yu Cheng

  • Museum and School Collaboration

    All 9th grade students of Jian Cheng Junior High School
    Jian Cheng Junior High School Resident Artists|Les Petites Choses Production, Tzu-Fen Lin
    Art Teachers|Chiao-Ming Chang, Yang-De Chen, Han-Yu Lu

  • Public Artwork Site Map

    https://mocatpe.tw/art04CrAfr

  • Supervisor

    Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government

  • Organizers

    Taipei Culture Foundation
    MoCA TAIPEI

  • Annual Sponsors

    THERMOS
    Contemporary Art Foundation
    Hui-Neng Chi Arts and Culture Foundation
    Royal Inn

  • Annual Sponsor for Appointed TV/Screen

    SONY

  • Cooperation

    Taipei Municipal Jian Cheng Junior High School
    Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
    Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Taipei Nanxi Store
    Royal Inn Taipei Nanxi
    Royal Inn Taipei Linsen

  • Media Cooperation

    Radio Taiwan International

  • Special Thanks

    Guangneng Village Office
    Chientai Village Office
    Jianming Village Office
    Minan Village Office

  • Proof of Attendance Service

    Volume DAO

Exhibition Introduction

Rest as a Form of Interest

In recent years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been a hot investment topic. By building a diversified investment portfolio, investors can avoid asset depreciation and fulfill their blissful dream of financial freedom so that they can rest while bearing interests. Investing and the concept of “lying flat” to reject societal pressures to overwork and over-achieve have seemingly become a kind of aspiration for freedom, which shows a shift from the notion of “why work” to “no need to work.” The more interests you accumulate, the less time you have to spend working, and you can rest more. You will be able to do things that you enjoy, such as exploring art or checking out the Community Art Project in Taipei’s Zhongshan and Datong District.


Grow in a Stress-free Environment

The pursuit of freedom and quality of life happens to coincide with the evolution of egg production. As one of Taiwan’s most popular consumer districts, like a hen that lays golden eggs, Zhongshan District is bustling with purchase receipts and cash flow. Amidst all that glitz and glam, art presented beyond the museum’s walls doesn’t necessarily have to enrich or beautify the cityscape; more importantly, it should spark energy and transform a space or a path with values and meaning. Think of it as growing in an environment that has transformed from being “caged” to “cage-free” and is now “free-range.” Working with community members, local shop owners, and artists, artworks that integrate the local context to interact and lead to imaginative paths of various formats are presented. This year’s Community Art Project also includes a collaboration with the Kairos platform, which focuses on the art ecosystem, in developing a “Proof of Attendance Protocol,” which offers visitors an invaluable record that documents the vibrant artistic energy generated from their exhibition-viewing experience and participation in the exhibition’s guided tour and workshops.


Bear Interest From Being Imaginative, Earn What’s Wonderful

The exhibition invites the following six artists from Taiwan and overseas, Chih-Hua Chiu, Kaoru Tanaka, Yen-Ju Lin, Wing-Yu Luk, Pin-Ling Huang, and Hsien-Yu Cheng to join in building an “investment portfolio” with freedom and imagination as the goal. Every imagination deposited will inevitably be returned to you, not only in the form of gratuitous and priceless “interest,” but you can also “earn” wonderful feelings just from swinging by.

We anticipate a resonating chemistry to be sparked between each of you and the artworks and the community and that you will experience a wonderful encounter that’s unpredictable and unquantifiable. We invite you to come to the Zhongshan Datong District and enjoy a stress-free environment to grow and thrive; there’s a place here for everyone!

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Curator & Artists

Sandwishes Studio
Chih-Hua Chiu
Yen-Ju Lin
Wing-Yu Luk
Pin-Ling Huang
Hsien-Yu Cheng
Kaoru Tanaka

Founded in 2012, the Sandwishes Studio strives to achieve inclusion, diversity, and sustainability. It collaborates with various governmental, industrial, and academic organizations and uses art and design to create different possibilities for cultural participation based on the idea of “play together, play everywhere.”

Chih-Hua Chiu’s art focuses on image-related studies and experiments with image concepts and different possibilities. In recent years, he has also collaborated with performers to explore the three-way relationship between body, image, and space. With the framework and the medium of experimental video expanded, he pays attention to unfinished businesses that are lost, faded, or gone. Using different forms to document and revive those defunct memories, he reorganizes them and gives them a narrative, while also forming connections between himself and the history of other places.

Born in 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan, Lin lives and works in Taipei. She graduated from the MFA Program in New Media Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Fine Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Lin focuses on the images, symbols, language, aesthetics, and meanings between digital media and the physical realm, attempting to use art as a method of connection to cosmology. Utilizing a variety of mediums, including video, painting, installation, and new media, she practices the concept of “in place.” She has presented solo exhibitions such as Long Stay and Stream May Be... Pillow, Stone Can Rinse... . Lin’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions including Non-syntax, Groundless, Video Lounge, Taiwan Annual, Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0, 3rd Outstanding New Media Art Award – Recounting Emotions, 8th Digital Art Festival Taipei – Data-Neurons, The 11th Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, and Nintender, among others.

Wing-Yu Luk, poet from Hong Kong, lives in Taipei now. She has won the City Literature Award and Chinese Literary Creation Award in Hong Kong. Author of three collections of poetry and three independent publications. Poetry works were selected into: 2011 Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, 2012 Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: Anthology of Poets born in the 1980s, Ten Hong Kong female poets born in the 1980s: Poetic Homeland, 2020 Taiwan Poetry Anthology. As a poet and curator, she has collaborated with Century Contemporary Dance Company, Taipei Literature Festival, Taipei Poetry Festival and other organizations.

Pin-Ling Huang was born in 1986 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts, and obtained the DNSAP from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014. While studying in France, she adopted oil painting as her primary medium, using the thickness and texture of the paint to create expressive layers and lines, influenced by her experience of living alone in a foreign country, her paintings focus on the theme of the landscape of her inner world. During her time in France, she was selected for the prestigious Jeune Création Award in Paris. Her first solo exhibition abroad, Piece of Peace, was held in Prague in 2013. And her graduation solo show, Lonely Land, was held in Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014. In 2015, she had a solo exhibition, Somewhere Else, in Paris. Her first solo exhibition in Japan, Dust of Mind, was held in Tokyo in 2017. She also had a solo exhibition Dreams Rise From the River Surface in Tokyo in 2021. She is currently working and living in Japan, in an art residency at the Tsunagi Art Museum, Tsunagi town, Kumamoto County.

Hsien-Yu Cheng (b. 1984, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; lives and works in Taipei) graduated with a BFA from the Department of Theatrical Design & Technology at Taipei National University of the Arts. Cheng holds an MFA from the Frank Mohr Institute at the Minerva Art Academy, Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands. As an artist and a software developer, Cheng’s working process expands into electronic installations, software, and experimental bio-electronic devices, with an aim to explore the relationships amongst human behavior, emotion, software, and machinery. In a humorous manner, he attempts to endow his works with vital signs and existential or empirical significance, to metaphorically embody his own experience and observation of the environment. He was selected as Young Talent 2011 in the Netherlands and won the first prize of Taipei Digital Art Award in 2013, New Media Art of Kaohsiung Award in 2017, Tung Chung Art Award in 2019, and 19th Taishin Arts Award - Visual Arts Award. His solo and group exhibitions have mostly been held in Taiwan, Asia, and Europe.

Kaoru Tanaka is a generative artist based in Japan. She uses TouchDesigner for real-time rendering to create installation art and other works. Her creative inspiration comes from everyday life, dreams, and fantasies, which are woven into her daily experimentation and production process. Tanaka's works have been exhibited at Art Basel Miami Beach, the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, TODA in Dubai, Prada Extends TOKYO, and in countries such as the United States, France, Dubai, Germany, and China.

Museum-School Collaboration Project

Les Petites Choses Production
Tzu-Fen Lin

MoCA Taipei launched a Museum-School Collaboration Project with the Jian Cheng Junior High School in 2007, and this year marks its 17th anniversary. The performing art group Les Petites Choses Production and fiber artist Tzu-Fen Lin were invited in early 2024 to work with the school’s art teachers. Together, they guided the school’s 9th graders to explore and use their bodies to illustrate their surroundings. They documented their everyday feelings by observing the spaces around them and expressing them with their bodies. They imagined creatures that dwell on the margins in inconspicuous places and used recycled materials creatively to portray them. This collaboration inspired the students to reflect further and express the relationship between themselves and their environment through various art forms.

Les Petites Choses Production is a performing arts cooperative composed of 17 creators, dedicated to reinventing and creating value in contemporary arts and cultural experience education. Through open and participatory art practices, the troupe continuously experiments with unconventional cultural and performance spaces. In collaboration with civil society, they aim to establish more sustainable support networks for the arts. In 2024, Les Petites Choses Production was selected as one of the "TAIWAN TOP" performing arts groups and as a representative performing group for the Taiwan Pavilion at the Paris Cultural Olympiad (Olympiade Culturelle).

Based in Taipei, Tzu-Fen Lin is a fiber artist who specializes in using plastic bags, industrial textile waste, ghost nets, and other wastes found today as her creative media. She uses expressions in organic shapes and forms to interpret environmental issues and natural phenomena, prompting people to pay attention to culture and nature. Lin is a member of NO!W Across Lab, which is dedicated to taking collective creative actions to turn waste into art.

Artworks

Body Sketch Project
Seeing the City through Poetry
Creatures of the Ecotone
《Blue Flow》
Eternal Circuit
《There Will Be Works》
A Landscape That Blocks the Way
Life’s Subtitles
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