2025.10.24-10.27

ART TAIPEI 2025 — Video Art Section: “Touch /True” 2025.10.24-10.27

Liao Chi-Yu／Bird

單慧慈 Sin Wai Kin ｜ The Breaking Story ｜ 6’31” ｜ 2022

劉文真 Jen Liu ｜ I AM CLOUD
4K video ｜ 15’30” ｜ 2024

Introduction

Responding to Taiwan’s image as a global technology island, ART TAIPEI 2025 introduces the “FOCUS | Film Sector”, dedicated to video and digital moving-image practices. The section explores technology as an artistic medium while presenting artists’ critical observations of social environments and cultural phenomena. Curated by Yu-Chuan Tseng, the program centers on the concept “Touch /True,” reflecting on how bodies are seen, regulated, and amplified across both physical and digital spaces. Through video works, participating artists engage with, challenge, and reshape dominant social imaginaries, revealing obscured power structures and enabling gender and existence to remain fluid and visible. Featured artists include Sin Wai Kin, Jen Liu, and Liao Chi-Yu, whose video and narrative moving-image works address gender, labor, the body, and social structures, responding to the multiple realities of human life in the digital age.

S03 Jen Liu
Jen Liu, a New York-based visual artist, works across video, installation, painting, and biomaterials to examine labor, gender, national identity, and global industrial supply chains. She has received support from Creative Capital and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has been presented at MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Royal Academy in London, Kunsthalle Wien, the Shanghai Biennale, the Singapore Biennale, and the 2023 Taipei Biennial.

S07 Sin Wai Kin
Sin Wai Kin (b. 1992) is a multimedia artist who uses performance and video to explore the possibilities of drag and to challenge binary notions of gender and identity. Their work combines fictional narrative, cultural symbolism, and theatrical performance, using shifts between multiple characters to investigate gender fluidity and reconstruction. Drawing from cinematic and staged imagery, they critique commercial spectacle and patriarchal structures, and in 2022 became the first non-binary artist nominated for the Turner Prize.

S08 Liao Chi-Yu
Liao Chi-Yu primarily works with video, focusing on embodied experience, memory, and emotion. Her works interweave sweet visual aesthetics with violence, conflict, and vulnerability found in everyday life, using role-play and open narrative to depict shared moments within interpersonal relationships. She received the UNITEXT Jury Special Mention at the Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania and has exhibited at events including the Bonn Video Art Festival. In 2021, she presented the solo exhibition “Mind Wandering” at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

因應台灣作為全球科技島的形象，ART TAIPEI 2025 特別設置「FOCUS | Film Sector 錄像藝術區」，專注於錄像與數位影像創作，探討科技作為藝術形式的可能性，並呈現藝術家對社會環境與文化現象的深度觀察。本次由策展人曾鈺涓策劃，以「觸 True」為核心論述，思索身體在現實與數位環境中如何被觀看、規訓與放大。參展藝術家透過錄像作品觸及、挑戰甚至重塑社會既定想像，揭示被遮蔽的權力結構，使性別與存在得以流動與顯現。參展名單包括譚慧慈（Sin Wai Kin）、劉文真（Jen Liu）與廖祈羽（Liao Chi-Yu），三位藝術家以錄像與敘事影像，從性別、勞動、身體到社會結構，回應數位時代人類所處的多重現實。

｜S03 劉文真 Jen Liu
劉文真，旅居紐約的視覺藝術家，創作涵蓋影像、裝置、繪畫與生物材質，探討勞動、性別、國族認同與全球產業鏈。曾獲 Creative Capital 與古根漢獎助，作品展出於紐約 MoMA、惠特尼美術館、倫敦皇家學院、維也納藝術館、上海雙年展、新加坡雙年展及 2023 臺北雙年展。

｜S07 譚慧慈 Sin Wai Kin
譚慧慈（1992 年生）是多媒體藝術家，以表演與錄像探索變裝的可能，挑戰二元性別與身份界線。作品結合虛構敘事、文化符號與戲劇化表演，藉由多元角色的轉換探討性別流動與再造。她曾於 Hollywood 電影與舞台影像中借用角色，批判高度商業性及父權體制，並於 2022 年成為首位獲提名英國透納獎的非二元性別藝術家。

｜S08 廖祈羽 Liao Chi-Yu
廖祈羽以錄像為主要創作媒介，作品關注身體經驗、記憶與情感，以甜美影像交織生活中的暴力、衝突與無奈，透過角色模擬與開放敘事描繪人際關係的共同時刻。曾獲立陶宛考納斯雙年展 UNITEXT 評審團特別獎，並受德國波恩錄像藝術節等展覽。2021 年在臺北市立美術館展出個展「心神出遊」。

Curatorial Statement

Touch refers to sensory contact, bodily perception, and social impact; in today’s digital context, it also signifies the process by which information is “reached” and circulated. Here, Touch carries the sense of approaching the real, emphasizing the effort, tension, and affect involved in moving closer, drawing near, and striving toward it. True, in contrast, points to those realities concealed by social norms and algorithms, yet always present. Through their works, artists continually touch, strike, trigger, and even transgress social imaginaries, exposing and challenging what has been hidden, while rewriting the meanings of gender and reconfiguring modes of existence.

In lived reality, the body is constantly watched, disciplined, and expected; in digital environments, these conditions are amplified and intensified by algorithmic logic. Yet art transforms the body from a passive vessel of meaning into a site of response, resistance, and the becoming of subjectivity. When the body exceeds social expectations, manifesting alternative actions and forms, it is often seen as transgressing established orders. It is precisely through such performative strategies that artists stage provocations at the threshold, compelling audiences to confront truths and prejudices, and in the resulting tension to open fractures through which new perceptions and ways of thinking may emerge.

Touch True is thus a mode of inquiry: in an era where the real and the digital are deeply entangled, how might creators simultaneously compel and invite audiences to rethink and re-sense strategies of existence? Here, gender is not a fixed label but a fluid state—flashing forth through fissures, and at thresholds opening toward new realities.

「觸」是感官上的碰觸、身體的感應與社會的衝擊；在當代數位語境中，它更指涉資訊被「觸及」的過程。這裡的「觸」蘊含真實的臨近，強調靠近、接近、企及的過程與努力，以及由此帶來的張力與感動。而「True」則指向那些被社會規範與演算法所遮蔽，卻始終存在的真實。藝術家透過作品，不斷地觸及、觸擊、觸發，甚至觸犯社會的既定想像，以此揭示與挑戰被隱匿的現實，並重新書寫性別的意義與存在的方式。

在現實世界裡，身體總是被觀看、被規訓、被期待；而在數位環境中，這種狀態則因演算法而被放大與加劇。然而，藝術使身體不再只是被動承載意義的物體，而成為回應、抵抗與生成主體意識的場域。當身體超越社會期待、展現異質的行動與形象時，往往被視為觸犯既定秩序；藝術家正是透過這種展演策略，在臨界點上提出挑釁，迫使觀者直面真實與偏見，並在緊繃的張力中製造裂縫，使新的感知與思考得以滲入。

「觸 True」是一種追問的態度，在現實與數位交織的時代，創作者如何逼迫並邀請觀者，重新思考與感受存在的策略。性別不是一個固定的身份標籤，而是一種流動的狀態，在裂縫中閃現，於臨界之處開啟新的真實。

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