Yang-Chi-Chuan - HANGZHOU TRIENNIAL OF FIBER ART

Yang Chi-Chuan

Yang Chi-Chuan
Taiwan, China

Yang Chi-Chuan explores memory as a source of knowledge and agent to mediate relations among people, places, objects and events, giving it material or immaterial form to carry her sensitivity and narratives. Yang often employs storytelling to create a warm duration in her sculpture or installation that embodies subtle access to a wide range of questions in life, around family, politics, urban environment and various cultural fabrics.

Small House

10-channel sound installation, sound collector, mixed and acoustic Ddesign: CHEN J-H, voice actor: LIN Wei Chih，situ assistant: Min Yifan

Dimensions variable, 20 mins

2021

In 2021, Xinbei Youzhang Art Museum presented Yang Chi-Chuan’s installation Small House at the exhibition “Housing Things: Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space”. Developed from imagination around the mold in the small house, the work orbits the idea that scents and sounds could act as the house’s soul and consciousness and thus depict its proper memory and sensation.

Working together with sound engineers, the artist designed and recorded a wide range of sounds, such as the slightest touch, yawns, sighs, a few isolated words and phrases, and various sounds in nature. Multichannel surround sound technology was employed in the installation. Along the walls were tens of sound installations and interlaced audio cables, climbing. The house was anthropomorphized, with the bounces and spatters of sound regarded as its pulsations and thoughts.

This time, at "Being Theoria: The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2022", the installation will be like an "intracerebral space" that spreads over all the nerves, imperceptibly and constantly, sharing the whispers of memories and thoughts to everyone who enters it.