Ying-Ting Shen is a Taiwanese artist/designer based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She works as an installation artist with a unique approach, her artistic research combines site-specific installation, interactive sculpture, and research in gravitational building methodology. Her work mainly questions the stability of the artificial object and social structure by recontextualization of traditional construction methods and creating an emotional-related sense of space and immersive experience. She introduces the essential beauty of the space and merges it with a profound connection between people's emotional experiences and physical space.
Transporting Landscape - How will our every action change the landscape? In this project, Ying-Ting and Yu-Ching invite visitors to pick up objects near the woods, place them on the 54 meters-long conveyor belt, and then transport them to the grassland. The conveyor belt that cuts through the forest violently is the symbol of industrialization, it accelerates every action we make as a person that sculpts this earth. As visitors and artists, our actions all contribute to this misplacement of the landscape. In collaboration with: Wild Bits Outdoor technological art exhibitions, as part of Tartu 2024 - European Capital of Culture Location: Ojaveere, Neeruti küla Otepää Vald, Valgamaa Estonia
A moving border is a transparent pathway - Land is being shaped constantly by external forces. Or it is just like the two forces are fighting for no purpose. Overlapping and juxtaposing found territorial maps of Taiwan and Netherlands, the act of a bordering becomes a metaphorical pathway into themes of play, marking and occupying from personal to political scale. Rendering transparency and malleability to something as solid as the hard-line edges of nation-states. In collaboration with: CAVE Collective, Yu-Ching Chiang Location: MAMA, Rotterdam
We are not alone - An on-site working process to explore the (in)dependence of humans and the environment. The artists foresee harmony between people and each independent environmental factor such as wind and gravity. Here, they propose an experimental project to reveal its (in)tangible power to create harmony for artistic creation. A project that contains gravitational installation assembled by the debris in the neighborhood. And an experiment with image and sound-making from the wind and gravity.
