Artist Ting-Ting Cheng on the complexities of individualism of post colonialism, the challenge of building your own island, and her unconcluded debates.

Written By Oscar Venhuis

Artist Ting-Ting Chen

Ep.92 | In today’s discussion, artist Ting-Ting Cheng delved into the complexities of individualism in the context of post-colonialism. She shared her project that explores the challenges of constructing one's own island, as well as her work centred around inconclusive debates. We also addressed the concept of fluidity in identity and how a seemingly simple interview request for the Steel Art Festival unexpectedly transformed into a new art project.

Ting-Ting Cheng is an artist from Taiwan, graduated from MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. She likes to reinterpret archival and found materials to construct narratives in the current context. She had solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Art Museum and other institutions and galleries in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, UK and more.

She had participated in Tokyo Biennial, Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architechture (China), and group exhibitions at Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok), Daegu Art Factory, Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei), Künstlerhaus (Vienna), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, National Art Museum of China...etc. She was the resident artist at Iniva (London), CFCCA (Manchester), Zero Station (HCMC), MMCA (Seoul) and more.

Still from “The Moments When You Suddenly Remember You Can Swim” (2023), three-channeled video installation. Credit: Ting-Ting Cheng

Still from “The Moments When You Suddenly Remember You Can Swim” (2023), three-channeled video installation. Credit: Ting-Ting Cheng

Documentation of the performance “A turning away from debates that have not been concluded” (2019) at CFCCA, Manchester. Credit: CFCCA

Documentation of the pamphlet “Steel F4's Travel Guide to Southern Taiwan” (2023). Credit: Ting-Ting Cheng, Connie Huang and Minshan Co.

 

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“I’m a Dutch-Korean artist who works and lives on Lamma Island in Hong Kong.”

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