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TSAO Chun
LAST UPDATE : 2021.12.23 / EDITOR : avatintern
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I want to show the connections and the reflections between the world and me by presenting my artworks. I am a clear and definite individual; on the other hand, the appearance of the world varies along with my perception and my consciousness. It thus affects the way of the connection between the world and me. I could not think of one clear description or a simple idea to sum up my artworks; however, they are somehow all related to disappearance, forgottenness, memory, the change or variation of different statuses, abandonees, aperture, and something else, something more. The more I want to describe something clearly; it ends up getting inevitably further from me.

I often choose video, photo, installation as a way to convey my idea, yet video and photo for me is not for delivering or carrying any message independently, they are both part of /belong to the installation, what I value is the roles they take in the installation and the relationship between them. To me, vision is definitely important in art, but as I imagine, art does not merely come from the vision, it often comes from something invisible: an atmosphere, a state, a sensibility other than vision that brought out by the visible art works. I value those cannot be directly reached by the vision, but can only be slightly touched by something more winding or more ambiguous.

My works are usually finished last week. I was thinking about things happened few years ago by then.

birth year
1986
Place of Birth
Taoyuan
Taiwan
Place of Residence
Taichung
Taiwan
education
2012
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Nancy, Nancy, France
2008
BFA
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
personal website
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2018
Zeelandia
Taipei Artist Village , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Zeelandia
Snowwhite Gallery , Auckland , New Zealand
2016
Gallery Owner
107 Gallery , Taichung , Taiwan
2016
To Former Friends
Yancheng Black and White Art Space , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2014
The Floor
72 Art , Yunlin , Taiwan
2013
Along the way
Black and White Artspace , Taichung , Taiwan
2020
Everyday Life and Landscapes of the Island: Betel Nuts, Bananas, Sugarcane and Palms
Tainan Art Museum , Tainan , Taiwan
2019
Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial
Tsung Yeh Arts and Cultural Center , Tainan , Taiwan
2018
C&D, etc.
107 Gallery , Taichung , Taiwan
2018
Arrested Development
Yiri Arts Pier 2 Space , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2017
Very Period
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Playlist
VT Artsalon , Taipei , Taiwan
2016
Detective
Pier-2 Contemporary Art , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2016
The Light from The Ruin
Aura Gallery , Changhwa , Taiwan
2016
Taiwan Annual
Expo Dome , Taipei , Taiwan
2015
In the Name of Nature and Reality
Art Bank , Taichung , Taiwan
2015
After Stock | Post-Stock
107 Gallery , Taichung , Taiwan
2014
Taipei Arts Awards
Taipei Fine Arts Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Post-Stock
National Formosa University Art Center , Yunlin , Taiwan
2014
Taoyuan Contemporary Arts Award
Taoyuan Cultural Affair Bureau , Taoyuan , Taiwan
2013
Face Off
Honolulu Club , Taichung , Taiwan
2010
Antiquity-like Rubbish Research & Development Syndicate
New Day Street Studio , Taoyuan , Taiwan
2009
The Abnormal Human Club Part Two
Shilin Public Assembly Hall , Taipei , Taiwan
2008
The Abnormal Human Club
Hwa Kang Museum , Taipei , Taiwan
2017
Unitec Institute of Technology
Auckland , New Zealand
2016
On the Road, Art and Ice Cream on the Road
Kaohsiung , Taiwan
2014
Luoyang Culture & Education Foundation
Yunlin , Taiwan
2014
Honorable Mention
Taipei Arts Award
 
Taipei , Taiwan
2014
Selected Award
Taoyuan Contemporary Arts Award
Taoyuan Cultural Affair Bureau
Taoyuan , Taiwan
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Zeelandia
I was trying to build a Zeelandia, with a specific method. The project was initialed by an interest in the common name of the eighth continent in the world and the first fortress in Taiwan – Zeelandia. The name was both given by VOC (Dutch East India Company), based on the Zeeland Provence in the age of discovery in 17th century, which means Sea land, a place of land soaking in the sea . With the bricks which was collected from demolish sites and everywhere in the city, and the materia ...
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Madou Sugarcane Beer
The idea came from the earliest document which mentioned about Taiwan – “Make salt from the fierce sea water and make wines from sugarcane syrup”, which is extracted from Daoyi Zhilüe (A Brief Account of Island Barbarians), 1349 by Chinese voyager, WANG, Da-Yuan. As a response to the first historical document which noted Taiwan, in this project I decided to use sugarcane juice to ferment some alcohol drink, and beer is my favorite. Commissioned by Madou Sugar Industry Art Trienn ...
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La Salle de Bain
“La Salle de Bain”, A novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Tsao Chun - "Willow River" https://soundcloud.com/tsao-chun/sets/willow-river
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Honolulu Club
Splendid Moment These are tubes left on the commercial sign of the club, they’re stopped being lighten since the club shut down. The glory, the shine, became history along with the club. Maybe this is a way to extend the bright that it used to have. Don’t want to Sleep The next day of 2014/2/22, the club was going to cut off the power, return to silence and being abandoned again. For the club, this might be a way to farewell. Tomorrow it’s the time to s ...
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TSAO Chun, 2013-2014, Photographic Art , Installation Art , Video Art
TSAO Chun, 2014, Photographic Art , Installation Art , Video Art
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