Gihak ArtLab
Wang Yu-Chen｜Artist Talk
From the East England Wetlands to the Outlet of Hualien River: Wang Yu-Chen's Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Art Practice
December is the eel fry catching season in Hualien. Fishermen will stand in the tide at the estuary every night and use triangulated nets to catch eel fry from the Kuroshio current. The mysterious eel ecology connects the eel industry of how fishermen served from the production site to the dinner table. Wang Yu-Chen will share her experience in field surveys and actions of British ecologist eel conservation, as well as related historical files, folk stories, etc., and then we will go to the estuary of Hualien River to witness the scene of catching eel fry.
◇ Event Date: Dec 29, 2019
◇ Event Venue: By The Sea Hostel
◇ FB Event Page: https://reurl.cc/4mNKL2
◇ FB Album: https://reurl.cc/N6xvxp
Wang Yu-Chen
Yu-Chen Wang was born in Taichung, Taiwan. After receiving her degree in Commercial Design in 2000, she moved to London, UK where she studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and Chelsea College of Art and Design. She currently lives and works in London. Her work features a mixture of artistic media, including drawings, objects, text, installation, performance and film. She is interested in exploring different ways of constructing multi-layered visual narratives through theatrical gestures and sculptural mise-en-scène that reference to history and architecture.
◇ Artist website: https://www.yuchenwang.com
◇ Residency Period: Dec 28, 2019 - Jan 2, 2020
