Exhibiting artist Yao Jui-Chung as he discusses his work with 'Ink Remix' curator Sophie McIntyre.
Contemporary ink art has emerged as one of the most significant and ubiquitous artistic trends in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and over the past decade has attracted increasing attention from the media and the international art community. Acclaimed as ‘the new Chinese art’, some of the world’s most prominent museums and galleries, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Saatchi Gallery in London, have staged major survey exhibitions of ink art.
Presented in conjunction with 'INK REMIX: Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong' at UNSW Galleries.
In a diverse range of 35 video and installation works by 14 high-profile artists, 'INK REMIX: Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong' reveals the ongoing centrality of ink in contemporary Chinese art.
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Yao Jui-Chung was born in 1969 in Taipei. He graduated from The National Institute of The Arts (Taipei National University of the Arts) with a degree in Art Theory. In 1997, he represented Taiwan in “Facing Faces-Taiwan” at the Venice Biennale and took part in the International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama in 2005, APT6 (2009) and Taipei Biennial (2010). He also participated in numerous other large international exhibitions. Apart from working in the fields of theatre and film, he has taught art history, wrote art criticisms and curated exhibitions. In 1997, he attended the Headland Center for the Arts (San Francisco). He was artist-in-residence at Gasworks Studio (London) in 2001, ISCP (NY) in 2006 and Glenfiddich (Scotland) in 2007.
Sophie McIntyre lectures at Queensland University of Technology, and she is an active researcher and curator specialising in the visual arts and museological practice in the Asia-Pacific, with expertise in Greater China (mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong). She is the sole author of the book, Imagining Taiwan: the Role of Art in Taiwan’s Quest for Identity (Brill 2018) which was based on her PhD, and she has published nationally and internationally in peer-reviewed journals, books, anthologies and catalogues. She has lectured and held fellowships in universities in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
Image: Yao Jui–Chung, Yao's Journey to Australia 2015, biro, oil pen with gold leaf on Indian handmade paper, 200 x 546 x 6cm. Courtesy of the artist and Tina Keng Gallery. Installation view, 'Ink Remix' at UNSW Galleries 2016. Photo: Silversalt Photography