Yen Chun Lin
Berlin | London
Yen Chun Lin (b.1990, Taiwan) lives and works between London and Berlin. In 2019, she graduated from MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University in London. The artist works mainly with sculptural installations that are activated by immersive soundscapes and speculative science. Forming from the fascination and fears of unknown phenomena in natural environments, her works investigate ambiguities and in-betweenness that are often devalued in assumed knowledge; situated between rational science and the classification of the unexplainable, supernatural, ethereal. Vibration, in sonic and tactile terms, shape our perception of reality. By tuning into quieter soundscapes, we could connect more with surrounding environments, perhaps, also with all beings from other dimensions of realities: expanding sensory perception (listening) as a way of caring.
Previously, she investigates the potential of dust as a sonic recorder that continuously records its surrounding environment. If vibrations in the air could be imprinted onto material matter, and those indexed patterns converted into sonic information, we would be able to hear unrevealed past that is not recorded in existing forms of archives - which she calls this hypothetical knowledge as ‘ambient truth’. The type of embodied knowledge that is experiential than informational.
Sprouting from her interests in sound, dust, ambient truth, sensory threshold, consciousness field and liminal spaces, Yen recently started a research platform ‘Here, a nut falls twice’. A platform experimenting with artistic practice: how empathy could be formed collectively by listening together and co-creating a shared ‘here’ through alternation in sensual perception. She believes this emotional connection has actual impacts on the material world.
EDUCATION
2017 - 2019 Master of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2015 - 2016 Fine Art Graduate Diploma, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2009 - 2013 Bachelor of Art in Product Design, Shih-Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan
SOLO｜DUO PROJECT
2022 (upcoming) ‘Here, a nut falls twice’ performance, ICA, London, UK
2021 (upcoming) ‘Ambient Extraction’ at Taipei Fine Art Museum for Taipei Art Award final selection, Taipei, TW
2021 eternal_folder_001, Whorling.net, Online
2020 Petrichor.mg - Parallel Singing Stairs EP Launch, Cosmos Carl, online
2019 Ambient Extraction, Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show, London, Uk
2019 Sendimentary Soundscape, DEMO Deptford Moving Image Festival, London, UK
2016 75p in Tate Britain Shop, sold at Tate Britain Shop, London, UK
2013 Landscape Furniture Project, ARTIFACT Showroom, Taipei, Taiwan
SELECTION of GROUP SHOW
2021 (upcoming) Staycation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery & Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2021 Apostasia: Rituals of Letting Go, Garage Gallery, Prague, CZ
2021 Conditions Studio end of year show, Whitgift Centre, Croydon, UK
2021 Performance presentation ‘Ambient Extraction - hearing landscapes from dust’ at ‘(Taking) Care in the Climate Crisis’ conference, CHASE Climate Justice, Online
2020 Hotel Happiness, online
2020 Screening at SlipStream, online fundraiser for Refugee Solidarity SE, UK
2020 Heterotopia, Oen Gallery, Kabelvåg, Norway
2018 Protocols of Uncertainty, Gossamer Fog, London, UK
2018 Gold X, Deptford X Fringe Festival, London, UK
2018 “...water jets were used at the four corners of the building.”, Former Newington Library Gallery, London, UK
2017 HASHTAG, MAFA Gallery, London, UK
2016 HOUSERULE summer residency show, The Rum Factory, London, UK
2016 Undergrads Degree Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2016 Off-Site, Safe-house Gallery, London, UK
2016 Interim, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2013 The Traveling-Chair, The Sixth Cross-strait Design Fair, Xiamen, China
2013 Young Designers’ Exhibition, Taiwan Design Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Behind, B1 Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
CURATORIAL and COLLABORATION PROJECT
2022 (up coming) ‘Shh…~ power of gentleness’ radio program, Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE
2022 (upcoming) ‘Here, a nut falls twice’ research platform, London, UK
2022 (up coming) Sound Treats – exhibition and performance at Zona Mista, London, UK
2019 Expanded Ecologies Event, Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2016 Feminism and Digital Art Conference, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
RESIDENCY
2022 Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT
2021 Outsideinsideoutinsideoutoutsidein Residency, Dresden, DE
2021 Staycation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery & Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2021 School of Kindness Residency, Sofia, BULG
2020 Condition Studio Programme, London, UK
2016 Houserules Residency, London, UK
WORK and TEACHING
2021 Artist Assistant for Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Berlin, DE
2021 Artist collective at OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTOUTSDEIN residency, Dresden, DE
2021 Album art for: Aloïs Yang – Xïola Yin ‘Self-contained Illusion (The Peak)’ - link
2020 Artist Talk at First Year Studies Department, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, UK
2020 Leading crits group at Fine Art Graduate Diploma, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2019 Lecture for creating writing at Fine Art Graduate Diploma, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 ICA Daily newsletter, 23 November
2020 Art Asia Pacific July Issue - link
2018 Group show ‘Protocols of Uncertainty’ on Tzvetnik - link