Installations
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re:form 「革新與形變」
A multi-layered art project combining exhibition and community engagement through sound and light installation, graphic notation, and sound drawing workshop. Centered on urban listening, it reveals micro-narratives of how soundscapes shape personal and collective relationships to the city, as lampshades pulse in rhythms embodying its tempo while imagining possible futures.
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This Is Not My Bedroom Anymore
This Is Not My Bedroom Anymore is a participatory installation that reimagines an intimate bedroom space as a site for collective art-making. It invites visitors to re-project their own recollection of a bedroom into the space, breaking traditional gallery rules by altering and transforming the space. Shaped by themes of childhood, trauma, and self-exploration, each…
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Out of the Blue
A visual meditation on the experiences of Burmese migrants following the military coup. Using synchronized split-screens, the video weaves interviews with young immigrants alongside the artist’s own footage of diaspora experience. Imbued with longing, uncertainty, and resilience, each fragment captures the ache of missing home while reflecting a complex sense of connection and disconnection to…
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One Day, The Sun Won’t Be Wounded
A series of digitally illustrated, hand-lettered poems that intertwine Chinese history, classical opera, mythology, folktales, and ancestral heritage to explore the artist’s queerness and transness. Originally developed as a BFA thesis, the project centers on Guanyin, examining their gender-expansive manifestations across centuries as a historical mirror for the artist’s own identity.
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Carga de Cuidado (Care Load)
Carga de Cuidado translates invisible caregiving labor, predominantly performed by women and girls, into a sensory experience. Activated by visitors, the installation itself remains inaccessible behind a curtain, emphasizing a separation between those who do the labor and those who benefit from it. Through the act of lifting and holding hanging weights, participants’ physical effort…
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Saminah
A drag-and-drop game that explores tensions between public and personal archives through intertwined fiction and non-fiction narratives. The player assumes the role of an assistant archivist tasked with uploading records about a Javanese contract laborer who migrated from Java to Suriname in the early 20th century, part of a broader labor movement following the abolition…
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Ancestral Futuring for an Entangled Time
A participatory installation that reimagines the burning of joss paper for future ancestors. Printed with prose written by John Kim and photography by Lucía Amieva-Wang, visitors select, read, and burn a piece at the Guanyin temple when entering or exiting the exhibition. In contrast to the destructive and colonial desire to dominate the present, ancestral…
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Someone Sat Here Before You
Someone Sat Here Before You presents a used chair carrying layered meanings and traces of presence, cradling a pillow sculpture formed through sitting while the material is still soft. The work reflects on memory embedded through touch and transformation, allowing the chair to function as a witness to lived encounters and accumulated histories.
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The Universal Gate (普門)
a participatory calligraphy installation that invites viewers to co-author a collective transcription of verses from the 25th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, titled “The Universal Gate.” Visitors handwrite one of the sutra’s 104 strophes and hang it on a designated wall, layering their script over previous contributions. The work emerges through the accumulation, each shaped…
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Treeansmission
An interactive installation that explores the transmission of knowledge and craftsmanship across generations. Simulating the branching growth of a tree, it highlights the irreplaceable human touch behind traditional crafts. Through participatory elements, workshop participants hang names of craft workers and ultimately transform the work into a living archive that honors labor, memory, and community.
performances
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Beyond Gender (a work in progress)
A butoh-inspired performance that merges structured choreography with spontaneous environmental responses. With musical accompaniment by Tigerland (Armaan Tagore), interwoven with the resonant frequencies of a live guitar and dynamic layering from Ableton Live, the piece transforms the physical space into a site of reflection as the performance explores gender.
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COMPASSION
In this performance, Bard The Beholder and Popcorn offer compassion to the transcendental figure of Guanyin. Through collective wishes, ritual, and prayer, these two gender-fluid servants of Guanyin invite guests to gather in good faith, extending care among themselves, toward Guanyin, and out beyond the stratosphere.
Lectures and Workshops
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re:form 「革新與形變」Graphic Notation Sound Drawing Workshop
A community-oriented session translating urban soundscape experiences into graphic notation and collective sound drawings. Focusing on embodied listening, drawing, and guided sharing, the session traces everyday sonic encounters, with resulting graphic notations integrated into the installation for the remainder of the exhibition.
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The Universal Gate: Introductory Lecture/Workshop
A short talk on Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, on the origins of Guanyin’s name and its translation and transmission across cultural and geographic contexts. Grounded in the philosophy of compassion, it invites participants to collectively share in completing a sutra, layering their diverse cultural experiences while reflecting on their roles within a larger…
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跨王爺 Trans-Royal Lord: Skadang X Kipatauw X TGY Collective in Action
Writer Han Cheung traces the cultural syncretism embedded in Beitou’s Baode Temple, where the legacies of displaced Pingpu villages and Han settler colonialism remain. Through local ritual practices such as lion dance, Indigenous culture adapts, survives, and transforms, carrying forgotten memories of erasure across generations.
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Natural Dye and Natural Fabric DIY Workshop
This workshop by Weichung Shih invites participants to explore natural dyes and textile creation. It introduces yarn and fiber production, from banana fibers to linen and silk, tracing material transformations grounded in ecological knowledge. In a hands-on component, participants create their own piece using natural dyes from organic sources, working with a personal garment they…
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Transformative Guanyin: Upaya and the Rise of Maria-Kannon Figures
This lecture by 林晶晶 Tara Lin-Jackson looks at “Maria-Kannon” figures that visually conflate Christianity’s Maria (also known as Mary and the Madonna) and Pure Land Buddhism’s Kannon (referred to as Guanyin in the Sinosphere). It discusses how the development of “Maria Kannon” figures did not only rise out of interaction with European campaigning in East…
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Maybe the World isn’t as Straight as We Think.
Centering three keywords, Linear, Binary, and Straight, this lecture describes the modes of thinking shaped by Taiwan’s social framework, and explores how people can move beyond these structures through trans ways of thinking to seek forms of life that belong to ourselves beyond linear, binary, and straight definitions.
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Accessibility in the Arts
In this lecture, Neaco Fox highlights how art practitioners can work with accessibility as part of their creative process, through care and compassion, developing practices that are more inclusive, adaptable, and welcoming to diverse audiences and participants.
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DEPLATFORM DRAG!!!: Global Drag Economy and Anti-Commercial Transfeminine Drag Artistry
Part crafting and dreaming, part anti-commercial drag exploration, this workshop invites participants to reimagine drag through the impact of transfeminine drag artists and on their local communities. Collectively, the host and participants will create a zine from their visions of drag, which will be compiled and available digitally after the event.
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Treeansmission: Discovering and Sharing Through Crochet
This practice-based workshop is open to all skill levels and is developed in relation to the Treeansmission crochet installation by Xonron. It invites participants to engage in crochet as both learners and transmitters. The workshop combines an introduction with hands-on making and exchange, culminating in participants contributing their individual pieces to the installation.
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Layered Visions – Cyanotype Workshop
Developed in collaboration with the TNUA analog photography community, informed by Professor Syko Song, this beginner-friendly workshop explores the cyanotype process. Participants use sunlight and found objects to expose images on light-sensitive paper, slowing down image-making while fostering creative communal space to engage with surrounding nature.
Film Screenings
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Digital Guanyin (數位觀音)
An audiovisual, 3D-animated, code-generated film that explores Guanyin as a figure of translation and compassion. Simulating “binary” systems in nature, the work challenges fixed oppositions and reflects on how gradients of meaning and transformation emerge through combination rather than isolation. Layered with analog and digital harmonies alongside nianfo 念佛 recitations, the piece invites viewers to approach…
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Voices without Borders (無國界之聲)
Voices without Borders traces the exodus from Central America’s Northern Triangle by weaving together the testimonies of those pursuing the American Dream. Through the voices of women and LGBTQ+ individuals, it speaks about the precarious journeys of departure, arrival, and return. While exposing violence, inequality, and trafficking, this documentary affirms migration as a human right…
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Ties (領帶)
Through Ana’s journey, Ties explores early pregnancy, agency, and the burden of premature responsibility. Blending intimate storytelling with social critique, the film not only confronts generational trauma and patriarchal constraints but also portrays the painful act of severing toxic bonds as a path toward healing, dignity, and emotional autonomy for women navigating structural vulnerability.
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Four Paths (四條道路)
While enduring systemic racism and institutional hostility, indigenous midwives in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, listen to their spiritual calling and practice the rigorous process of apprenticeship and labor. With intimate testimonies, the film reveals ancestral knowledge as cultural resistance while honoring women who sustain life, challenge colonial hierarchies, and defend the right to practice, heal, and exist…
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PYTAGUA (異鄉感)
PYTAGUA traces foreignness as a state of perpetual becoming. Taking its title from the Guaraní word meaning foreigner, stranger, alien, or non-native, the film moves through visible and invisible borders that define identity. As territories are crossed, both space and self are transformed, revealing identity as continually negotiated between belonging and displacement.
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Girl Mirage (女孩幻影)
Girl Mirage is an experimental essay film that collages memories of the past and present as a tribute to the girl who chose otherwise. Created for an extra-credit university programme, it follows the filmmaker’s return to Yogyakarta twenty years after their first trip with their family, including their Oma. By returning to Indonesia as an…
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Martial Forest (武林)
In a dystopian present, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a crew of trans and queer fighters as they reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest, a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. As violence escalates around them, they fight to build a future rooted…