Event Description:
Join exhibition artists and curators of Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition to gain an understanding of historical ink painting traditions and artmaking today in Taiwan. Panelists will include Taipei-based artist Yao Jui-Chung, the 2026 George A. Miller Visiting Artist-in-Residence, on campus November 2–7
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**With a special performance of "The Breathing of an Island" by Wu Tsan-Cheng. Drawing on Taiwan's changing soundscapes from the coast to the mountains, Wu creates a sonic portrait of the island, inviting audiences to experience its landscapes through listening.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Chen Chun-Hao (陳浚豪) recreates classical painting with mosquito nails, thumbtacks, and industrial materials, transforming brushwork, texture strokes, and qi into metallic points and repetitive bodily labor.
Kao Chien-Hui (高千惠) is a Taiwanese art critic, curator, writer, researcher, and educator whose interests span modern and contemporary East Asian art, cultural criticism, curatorial practices, and the relationship between aesthetics and ideology.
Wu Chi-Tsung (吳季璁) works across photography, video, installation, and painting, often using light, time, and everyday materials to reconstruct landscape texture strokes through poetic media experiments.
Wu Tsan-Cheng (吳燦政) centers his practice on field recordings, environmental soundscapes, and online mapping, using sound as a medium for sensing land, cities, and changes in time.
Yao Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) works across photography, painting, installation, performance, and publishing, often using humor, appropriation, and critique to address history, ruins, power, and the imagination of landscape.
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This event is presented as part of Yao Jui-Chung’s 2026 George A. Miller Visiting Artist Residency and in conjunction with Ink Shower: Contemporary Taiwanese Artists Reimagine Tradition, curated by Kai-Ching Hsiao and Maureen Warren and organized by InART Space and Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in partnership with the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS). The residency and related programs are coordinated by CEAPS in collaboration with KAM and supported by the Center for Advanced Study George A. Miller Programs and the MillerComm Lecture Series.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture and our campus co-sponsors and partners, including the Asian American Cultural Center, Center for Global Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Department of Political Science, Humanities Research Institute, Illinois Global Institute, Illinois International Programs, Global Relations, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, LAS Global Studies, School of Art + Design, and the UI UAAT Mandarin Education Program.
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