Chih-Hsun Chien

artistic research - performance

Chih-Hsun Chien, born in 1990 in Taipei, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam. Professionally trained theater director, graduated from Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague and Taipei National University of Arts, he now carries out an activity woven into researches, dialogues, performances, and staging. He derives from his practice as a theatricality invoker a propensity to appropriate what is already presented in frames, in order to translate, despite the original forms of disciplines; therefore, his posture is that of an embodiment and re-performer who distils and reflects upon silver plates. His inspirers, ranging from Samuel Beckett to homebrewing, are scripts or spirits for his (re)creations, bodies that he likes to unfold upon new identities and meanings. Facing with the numberless constellations of possibilities, his means are dearly defined: he abstracts the architecture of choreography and musicality. This work of co-creation, like a therapeutic consultation, summons, by re-presenting them to Here, new ways of being.

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    • Conversation Journal: The Adaptation + Reading and Learning

    Project

    • 01-11-2020 t/m 31-01-2021
    • In collaboration with: Janneke Derksen (NL, 1992)
    • Location: Tuindorp Vreewijk, Rotterdam
    • “Conversation Journal” is an ongoing, research-based project of performativity and urbanism. The title refers to the nature of duo collaboration between a landscape designer and an artistic researcher. In this stage, the duo aims to respond to social and cultural assignments which depict the quality of neglected layers within this imploding epicization of globalization in a one-century old urban project village.
    • https://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/524c4b7e-3df8-4a83-b66e-9d8d344ad13f/

    In Conversation With (...)

    Performance

    • 01-04-2020 t/m 31-08-2020
    • In collaboration with: Anne Kolbe (NL, 1989)
    • Location: Attentive, Rotterdam
    • Performance “In Conversation with (...)” is the outcome of a collaboration with artist Anne Kolbe during the drastic pandemic time in 2020. The project aims to investigate the quality of performativity in domestic set-up, caring as a gesture, and human connections. The performance was dearly composed by dialogues, narratives and gestures.

    Performance Lecture “Antonius Hambroek, Or The Siege of Formoza, Tragedy”

    Performance

    • 07-02-2020 t/m 07-02-2020
    • Location: Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
    • “Antonius Hambroek, Of The Siege Of Formoza, Treurspel” was based on a real event of the siege between Dutch VOC company and Chinese pirates in Taiwan. The performance extracts partial elements of the conflict and recomposes the tenderness of ambiguity of the untold history. It includes collective reading and sharing homebrewing rice wine.

    Performance Lecture “Antonius Hambroek, Or The Siege of Formoza, Tragedy”

    Performance

    • 08-11-2019 t/m 08-11-2019
    • Location: Performance Bar, Rotterdam
    • “Antonius Hambroek, Of The Siege Of Formoza, Treurspel” was based on a real event of the siege between Dutch VOC company and Chinese pirates in Taiwan. The performance extracts partial elements of the conflict and recomposes the tenderness of ambiguity of the untold history. It includes collective singing and sharing homebrewing rice wine.

    To Stage Camera Obscura

    Performance

    • 01-07-2017 t/m 10-07-2017
    • Location: Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (KABK), The Hague
    • "To Stage Camera Obscura" is a conclusion towards Chien's master studies, marks a metaphosis from a theater artist into visual art, which is in search for mutuality between Photography and Theatre. The work contains an inverted camera obscura wherein the performance took place, injecting streams of momentums through pinhole onto photographic paper. The result therefore resonates with the notion of impermanence and performativity.

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Experiment Grant Scheme, Stimulation Fund

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • PPR, CBK

    • 2021