Yen Chun Lin 林彥君
yenyenyay@gmail.com
Yen Chun Lin (s/he/they/it, b.1990, Taiwan) currently lives and works among states of falling, falling asleep, falling awake, falling with(in) love, and falling (into) unknown. Through artistic practices, they tune into subtlety, liminality and the ‘seemingly imperceptible’ as a way of cultivating sensibility to communicate with(in) silence, darkness, dust, wind, and sub(un)conscious states. Her works are materialised in the form of installations, hosting sculptural soundscapes, performances, collaborations, and speculative sciences. Previously, he co-funded Soundust Research Agency which investigates the potential of dust as sonic archives, recording environments from the past, present and future. Recently, it practices 'encountering’ and ‘noticing’ quietly without disturbing the spirit and spirits in co-existing realms. From which the research project Here, a nut falls twice (commissioned by Institute of Contemporary Art London, 2022) sprouted: a space holder for exploring how empathy could be formed collectively by listening, falling together and co-creating a shared ‘here’ through alternation in sensual perception. Yen received a Master in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (London, 2019). S/he/they/it was the recipient of Taipei Art Award grand prize (2021), and artist-in-residence at Rupert (Vilnius, 2022). Recent exhibitions include Taipei Fine Art Museum (Taiwan); Britta Rettberg Gallery (Munich); Centrum Project Space (Berlin); Catinca Tabacaru & Sandwich Gallery (Bucharest); Gossamer Fog (London), among others.
藝術家林彥君目前生活與研究於墜落的狀態之中，墜落於沈睡中、墜落於愛之中、墜落於未知。藉由藝術創作調頻至介於之間的地帶，以及那些近乎無法察覺的邊緣現實裡，以此培養與寂靜、黑暗、塵埃、風、非意識狀態溝通的能力。他的作品主要以裝置空間呈現，其中乘載雕塑性聲景、表演、合作、與推測性科學。過去，他共同成立了Soundust Research Agency 提出塵埃作為聲音檔案的潛力，塵埃記錄著過去、現在、與未來的環境聲景與秘密。近期，他試著以不打擾周遭萬物與靈的方式，練習靜靜地感受、察覺、理解與偶遇。因此萌芽了研究平台Here, a nut falls twice（由倫敦當代藝術學會委託創作，2022年）：探索如何藉由共通聆聽的經驗，一起墜落，並且透過共享感官的交替形成集體共鳴與同理心，共同創造一“此地”。林彥君為2021年台北美術獎首獎，於2019年畢業於倫敦金匠大學藝術碩士，於2022年為立陶宛Rupert駐村藝術家。近期展覽包括：Institute of Contemporary Art London （倫敦）、台北市立美術館（台灣）、Britta Rettberg Gallery（慕尼黑）、Centrum Project Space（柏林）、Catina Tabacaru & Sandwich Gallery（布加勒斯特）、Gossamer Fog（倫敦）等。
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
2024 (upcoming) Solo Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, TW
2024 (upcoming) ‘Here, a nut falls twice’ performance at Norberg Festival, Norberg, SE
2022 ‘Here, a nut falls twice’ Installation, opening performance and overnight event, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
2022 ‘Collecting stones from hypnagogia’ with Ana Pascu at Centrum Gallery, Project Space Weekend, Berlin, DE
2021 ‘Ambient Extraction: sedimentary soundscapes in dust’ with Alois Yang at Taipei Fine Art Museum for Taipei Art Award, 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
SELECTION of GROUP SHOW | PERFORMANCES
2023 (upcoming) ‘Schwindel’, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE
2023 Performance ‘Envelops’ with Matilda Tjader at ‘Spelling the wind without words’, Skanes Konstforening, Malmo, SE
2022 Group show ‘Materials for Virtue / Incandescent Flare’, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich, DE
2022 Installation performance for ‘Blue House’ project, X-site, Taipei Fine Art Museum, TW
2022 ‘Vertical ears’ participatory performance with Alois Yang at Yo-yuang ecological park,TW
2021 Staycation, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery & Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, RO
2021 ‘Spirit and spirits’ at 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
CURATORIAL and COLLABORATION PROJECT
2022 ‘Here, a nut falls twice’ research platform with Sara Sassanelli, London, UK
2019 Expanded Ecologies Event, Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2016 Feminism and Digital Art Conference, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
AWARD | GRANT
2021 Taipei Art Awards - Grand Prize
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 ｜ TEACHING｜WORKSHOP
2022 Listening workshop ‘Ambient Knowledge’, BA Media Communication, Kun-Shan University, Tainan, TW
2022 Artist Talk – lecture performance, BA Architecture, Shih-chien University, Taipei, TW
2021 Collective dreamscape building workshop, Dresden, DE
2021 Collective napping workshop at Staycation Residency, Bucharest, RO
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