The Further the Distance, the Tighter the Knot was a performance installation that used Victorian mourning rituals, old-time American folk songs, and knitting to explore my longing for home as a recent transplant to Australia. Linden is a repurposed Victorian mansion, built in the 1870s as a family home. The piece drew on Linden’s history […]

When eight years of your adult life is consumed with creating something most people around you think outlandish, stupid, wasteful, sinful, desperate, ugly, pointless, or perverse, and this is after floundering so many years prior on what exactly to consume one’s creative energy on, only to hear from your wife, family, and friends once you […]

In the second half of the 19th century, due to the rise of the Industrial Revolution, traditional handicraft manufacturers in Europe were outraced by factories, where large machines were used. Crude machines mass-produced cheap but less-qualified products. People who were obsessed with fine and exquisite handwork became worried that traditional techniques and creativity might vanish […]

My work derives from my own living experience, involving media such as painting, installation, and video. In the piece Momentary Image, I enlarged a number of video screenshots of sensitive movements and states of women, and gave them painting-like color blocks by image processing. These movements and states include the lower body of a woman […]

My work is driven by the desire to understand and interpret the human condition, human dynamics/relationships by exploring the “spaces in between.” I find myself constantly needing to defy the canvas edge and envelope the space beyond the boundaries, incorporating into the images elements of truth and fiction such as text, collage, and assemblage in […]

Rebecca Horn is a major representative of the contemporary German art world, and has been well-known since the early 1970s for her numerous performances that sought to improve communications with others and develop a rapport with nature. Following her participation in the Documenta V show in her 20s, Horn has energetically explored one new territory […]

Artist Laurance Rassin, director of the New Blue Riders, is teaming up with the Durst Organization and Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl (CCOC) to create awareness and funding for not-for-profit organizations through Simply Blue, his first major solo show at Condé Nast’s exhibition space in Manhattan. The exhibition, curated by Lanny Powers, is open to the public […]

The earliest performance piece of Bai Chong-Min that I knew about was Lugu Lake, which was a collaboration with Wu Wei-He in 2002. It was part of the “Long March” projects on feminism. It could be easily concluded from Lugu Lake that the cloth dolls and clothes styles were all making an analogy to the […]

My drawings, sculptures, and installations serve as visual comedy, or a form of concrete poetry, and can mostly be credited to a failed attempt at mastering the English language. To me, rhyme, homonyms, puns, and euphemisms are more historically vital discoveries than fire. Although I interject social satire and politics into my work at times, […]

My art practice is invested in creating a free space for contemplation that lends itself to mutual understanding and the promotion of non-violence. My work has taken a variety of forms including performance, installation, photography, film, video, text, sculpture, and sound. For the 13th annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival, feel free to join […]