Wen Chin Fu

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Inner game is a labyrinth inspired by Chinese symbol Baqua. Baqua is formed with symbol of Yan and Yin. It is used for military strategic ,fortune telling, Feng Shui to everyday life. All the symbols are interrelated and it represents the fundamental nature of reality. The wide range of applications made Baqua a suitable idea of labyrinth in the mental health institute Parco Basaglia. F.Basaglia was an important psychiatrist in Italy who provoked the idea that mental hospital should not have walls. Treat mental illness patients as patients is inappropriate. In Parco Basaglia, no walls were built around the institute, everyone can enter and leave freely. The rule of "inner game" labyrinth is the same, you are free to stay inside or leave with the touch of your finger in the labyrinth anytime. The composition is separated into 8 different routes/tracks. In each route, a hidden bell sound with boy's counting can be heard/found. It's an individual experience. Find your mental states inside the free space.

Inner game, 2017
Interactive installation
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Tang instrument is a percussive instrument which explore the acoustic properties of crystalized sugar

Tang- sugar instrument, 2015
crystalized sugar
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sound stage design for a theater piece

the forest inside me kept me in it like, 2014
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site-specific sound installation

Raindrop in het kruithuis, 2013
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spine costume

spine spinning, 2013
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self-made instrument. Live performance

OHHO-body cello, 2013
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performance in Eavesdropping event, Stichting Centrum

Jhih Chiang/Paper Wall, 2011
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interactive installation with sound and genetic modified plants

Post Human Garden, 2011
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The “Filters” performance is inspired by the theme of travel, of movement and of migration from one place to another

Filter, 2010
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Identification is a performance with designed electronic costume

Identification, 2010

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I'm a Taiwanese artist currently living and working in The Hague,Netherlands. In 2006, I graduated in Classical Music Department, Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan and continued studied in The Royal Art Academy, Art and Science interfaculty, Den Haag,Netherlands, graduated in 2010. I collaborated with, among others, the choreographer Kirstie Simpson, photographer Maria Rebecca Ballestra and different theater groups and musicians in Europe. My interest is exploring the relationship between physical and sound environment and focus on the change of body reaction towards sound. Discovering the essence of body movement in live performance. For example, when musicians play instrument, they use different part/muscle of the body. To observe body's co-ordination in details which may lead to a new perspective of perceiving a live performance. I would like to elaborate this phenomenon by using the method of performing in an extreme tension/concentration of body. As I am performing regularly with dancers and musician, the sensation of concentration is one of the key element of my practice. Concentration opens senses for perceiving things in different perspective. Through different practices, I hope to explore the possibility of extending human body and the relationship between human body and self-made instrument and machine in live performance.

Websites

www.wenchinfu.com

Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator

Instrument Inventors Initiative

Curriculum vitae

Education

2016 - 2018

Muziektheater Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
2006 - 2010

ArtScience Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
2004 - 2006

Classical music/cello Shih-Chien University,Taipei, Taiwan diploma
0019 - --

exhibitions

2019

Netherlands Gestronomisch Inburgeringsexamen Tetem Enschede For this project she proposes to create an extension to the examination process for becoming a Dutch Citizen, based on food culture. In Taiwan sharing food is the primary way of being together. Recently Wen Chin Fu obtained her “inburgeringsdiploma”. She was surprised to find that in the exam over Dutch Society there were no questions at all about food culture. She also found questions that most Dutch citizens would not be able to answer. The food that people eat daily in Holland comes from all over the world, however most people don’t know how to cook many of the dishes they eat regularly. Wen Chin will design a new inburgerings questionnaire around food culture in The Netherlands that will be presented in the exhibition. testmoz.com/2330653 Group
2019

hozz il-hsejjes Studio A Spazju Kreattiv, Malta Hozz il-hsejjes reflects on our fragile environment, on how we relate to our surroundings,and how a community can (re)invent its environment. Taking inspiration from the intrinsic relationship between the late Gabriel Caruana artistic practice focusing on clay as his favoured medium and the use of the Mill. The creative team has worked with two materials which relationship goes a long way- clay and wheat. The team have developed this engaging project for all ages, with a particular focus on children and youths. Hozz il-hsejjes is a tactile, aural, and visual experience that invites visitors to become participants by creating a collective and every-changing musical and visual composition gabrielcaruanafoundation.org Group
2017

Inner Game Gorizia, Italy Inner game is a labyrinth inspired by Chinese symbol Baqua. Baqua is formed with symbol of Yan and Yin. It is used for military strategic ,fortune telling, Feng Shui to everyday life. All the symbols are interrelated and it represents the fundamental nature of reality. The wide range of applications made Baqua a suitable idea of labyrinth in the mental health institute Parco Basaglia. F.Basaglia was an important psychiatrist in Italy who provoked the idea that mental hospital should not have walls. Treat mental illness patients as patients is inappropriate. In Parco Basaglia, no walls were built around the institute, everyone can enter and leave freely. The rule of "inner game" labyrinth is the same, you are free to stay inside or leave with the touch of your finger in the labyrinth anytime. The composition is separated into 8 different routes/tracks. In each route, a hidden bell sound with boy's counting can be heard/found. It's an individual experience. Find your mental states inside the free space. Labrysproject Duo
2015

Tang- sugar instrument, Quartier, Den Haag Tang is a percussive instrument made with crystalized sugar Solo
2014

Spine Spinning, Centras festival, Kaunas, Lithuania Spine Spinning performance focus on the movement of spine through a self-designed spine costume Solo
2014

the forest inside me kept me in it like a shadow, INACT festival,Strasbourg, France A poem and sound stage instrument, performance Duo
2014

OHHO/body cello, In praise of shadow exhibition, TETEM, Enschede body cello is an instrument which play with feet movement Solo
2013

OHHO/body cello, iii exhibition in November Music body cello is an instrument which play with feet movement Duo
2013

Raindrop in het kruithuis, iii exhibition in November Music Raindrop in het kruithuis is a site-specific sound installation Duo
2012

Friction plates, Gaudeamus music week, Utrecht Friction Plates is an instrument using the various speed of spinning motor Solo
2011

Post human garden Villa Croce museum of contemporary art Genoa, Italy Post Human Garden is a sound installation. The idea is exploring the relationship between genetic modifying plants and human. Duo

Projects

2017
Inner Game Gorizia, Italy Labrysproject.com Inner Game Inner game is a labyrinth inspired by Chinese symbol Baqua. Baqua is formed with symbol of Yan and Yin. It is used for military strategic ,fortune telling, Feng Shui to everyday life. All the symbols are interrelated and it represents the fundamental nature of reality. The wide range of applications made Baqua a suitable idea of labyrinth in the mental health institute Parco Basaglia. F.Basaglia was an important psychiatrist in Italy who provoked the idea that mental hospital should not have walls. Treat mental illness patients as patients is inappropriate. In Parco Basaglia, no walls were built around the institute, everyone can enter and leave freely. The rule of "inner game" labyrinth is the same, you are free to stay inside or leave with the touch of your finger in the labyrinth anytime. The composition is separated into 8 different routes/tracks. In each route, a hidden bell sound with boy's counting can be heard/found. It's an individual experience. Find your mental states inside the free space.

International exchanges/Residencies

2019

The Mill - Art, Culture and Craft Center, Birkirkara, Malta Wen CHin Fu was developed her new instrument Hayclay during her residency in the Mill. gabrielcaruanafoundation.org
2016

Nida art colony, Lithuania

Publications

2013

Instrument Inventors Initiative, Kruithuis 's-Hertogenbosch, November Music November Music catalog of group exhibition
2011

changing perspectives De Ferrari Comunicazione S.r.l review of several duo projects

Awards and grants

2019

C.O.C.A Italy Genomineerd, finalist

Secondary art-related activities

2011 - 2014

docentschap
2010 - 2010

workshop