Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Meiya Cheng
Meiya Cheng’s research focuses on issues facing cultural production including conditions of exhibitions, the role of existing art institutions and cultural policies that shape the environment surrounding this work. Based on field research in Asia, Cheng initiated the institution Taipei Contemporary Art Center in 2009 with a group of activists, curators and artists to express the necessity of independent, non-profit institutions to serve the art community and to create a base for experimental art practices in Taipei. In addition to this work in the public realm, she also curates and conducts research on art projects in the technological age.
Meiya Cheng is an independent curator and cultural organizer based in Taipei, previously working at MOCA. She has published articles in Artco magazine, Art and Investment and Broadsheet. Recent projects include Taipei Contemporary Art Center, co-founded with a group of activists, artists and curators in 2009; Augmenting the World, a curatorial project for the 6th Taipei Digital Art Festival; and Trading Futures, co-curated with Pauline Yao, TCAC.
Meiya Cheng, Guidebook Cover “Augmenting the World”, 2006.
Meiya Cheng, E-flyer “Trading Futures”, 2012.
Meiya Cheng, No Ghost Just a Shell, 2006.
Residents from Taiwan
Melissa Keys
Melissa Keys is an independent curator and writer. She has curated a wide range of projects and programs in museums and art spaces including solo, survey and thematic exhibitions.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Melissa Keys holds an MA Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts. Keys was previously Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has held positions at Monash University Museum of Art and Heide Museum of Modern Art and has produced independent projects for numerous institutions. In 2009, she was an Asialink curator in residence at KHOJ, International Artists Association
in New Delhi, India. She is currently associate curator at the Embassy of Australia, Washington DC.
Curated by Melissa Keys, Concerts, 2009. Photo courtesy of Eva Fernández.
Curated by Melissa Keys, An Ever Expanding Universe, 2008. Photo courtesy of Eva Fernández.
Curated by Melissa Keys, Intimate Acts, 2009. Photo courtesy of Eva Fernández.
Curated by Melissa Keys, The Weight of History. Photo courtesy of Neale Stratford.
Curated by Melissa Keys, Forces of Nature, 2011. Photo courtesy of Paul Morigi.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Yu-Hsien Su
Yu-Hsien Su’s work focuses on the feeble sense of reality in people’s daily lives. The subject matter of desolate people or those leading barren lives with a sense of non-existence is often seen in the artist’s work. Su tries to capture this reality by constructing and adhering to various rules, forms, games or recognized perceptions. The act of capture is meant to highlight the distance between reality and the perceptions of his subjects.
Su was born in 1982 and lives and works in Taiwan. He studied at the Department of Plastic Arts, National Tainan University of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include: Living in detail, Gwangju Museum, Korea; Ice Mountain, Pyo Gallery Seoul, Korea; and I am Pluto yo, VT ArtSalon, Taipei. Su’s latest show was in the 54th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion, The Heard and the Unheard – Soundscape Taiwan.
Yu-Hsien Su, Drummer No.10, 2011, DVD album.
Yu-Hsien Su, Group Java, 2011, DVD album.
Yu-Hsien Su, Plastic Man, 2012, Video, 3:44 min.
Yu-Hsien Su, The Chair, 2012, Video, 1h 30 min.
Yu-Hsien Su, The Chair, 2012, Video, 30 min.