Art Attack
Simmering with heartfelt passion and deeply rooted in the land. Follow ten artists on their creative journeys, and discover not just Taiwanese art, but the emotions, stories, and connections that bring it to life.
Simmering with heartfelt passion and deeply rooted in the land. Follow ten artists on their creative journeys, and discover not just Taiwanese art, but the emotions, stories, and connections that bring it to life.
13:30By applying his expertise in programming to visual arts, Taiwanese artist Che-Yu Wu creates stunning pieces driven by algorithms. Instead of dictating specific brushstrokes on the
13:30Taiwanese performing artist Yu Cheng-Ta shifts between different characters. From a durian-obsessed queer toff based in Malaysia, to an angel investor in the red-light district in
12:00Architect by day, artist by night. Taiwanese calligraphist Wang Bo-cheng cultivates inner peace through writing in various forms and scales. By stacking characters upon characters,
13:00VR director and new media artist Huang Hsin-Chien creates new realities to challenge perceptions. Blending the lines between reality and illusion, he explores human stories, emotio
12:30Taiwanese artists Chang Ting-tong creates with various mediums. From interactive exhibition to graffiti, from mechanical installation to ecological performance, Chang explores the
13:00Every society has a tacit trope of an “ideal female.” To visual artist Ni Jui-hung, that trope in Taiwanese society takes the form of “fairy” (仙女), a Taoist term referring to women
12:00Lin Lian-en creates art in response to her personal life. She started drawing to relieve stress, but now her illustrations have become a career. Lin imagines what she wants to crea
12:00Sheng Yu-ting and Wang Shih-yuan believe art is the ultimate form of exploration. Together, they created ROSO, an interdisciplinary research team, focused on design, computation, a
13:30Working with your hands is a form of meditation, according to ceramic artist Efen Lin. In ceramics, the process of kneading clay is as meaningful as the finished artwork. From her
13:25Sculpture is the art of molding nature. Sculptor Zih-Cing Lee has been crafting the natural world into beautiful works of art for more than 30 years. Take a journey into her work a
13:30Collage is the way artist I-Chien Wu uses mixed media art to connect with her audience. Through her curiosity about the world around her, she uses textures, vintage items, and even
13:24Heidi Yip is an artist who finds beauty in nature all the time. She was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Toronto; but is now based in Taitung, Taiwan after the call of the Pacific
13:15Artist Hao-Lun Hung is obsessed with the colors of nature. From the smallest insect to towering trees, he seeks to find, extract, and incorporate all of the colors Taiwan provides
13:29Flamenco is a dance of passion, a method of storytelling that binds culture, art and community into one explosive rhythm. For Taiwanese flamenco dancer Lian-Hua Ho, this dance is m
13:29Art is a conversation between humans and nature, a gift that we can give to nature conveying respect and reverence that is often lost. This is the guiding principle of artist Kuei-
13:30Austronesian artists weave the stories of their communities, preserving traditions and memories. This is the heart of everything Indigenous textile artist Aluaiy Kaumakan creates,