Jia-Ling Hsu

Hsu Jia-Ling, Taipei (Taiwan)

Period of residence: September – October 2015

Hsu Jia-Ling’s works are time-based, including performances and moving images. Being drawn from personal family and romantic relationships, her work is an emotional response to the notion of love and confinement. It incorporates memory and dream, which creates a sensational reality, and transforms the unspeakable into an intimate touch of mind. Jia-ling’s performance work incorporates the surrounded space into her narrative. Besides inserting the body movement into the context of specific sites, she also makes pieces that turn the space into a theatrical venue. By using multiple materials such as text, object, sound and lighting, she creates a collage of scenes that provokes an open narrative.
Selected performances include: Wash Off. Fantasy Theatre’s “Wash” Theatre Festival. Solo Singer Inn: Taipei. Taiwan(2014); Daily Life. Taiwan-Hiroshima Performance Art Show. Polymer:Taipei.Taiwan(2014, group exhibition); FOURbidden. Hopscotch Body Movement Theatre’s “Body & Sound” program. Changee:Taipei.Taiwan(2014); I am breathing, and so is it. Sidewalk by the construction site of Taipei Dome: Taipei. Taiwan(2014).

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Performance Daily life (2014)