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Tang Huang-Chen
湯皇珍
Born (1958-02-24) February 24, 1958 (age 67)
Taipei, Taiwan
Alma mater

Tang Huang-Chen (Chinese: 湯皇珍; pinyin: Tāng Huáng Zhēn; born February 24, 1958) is a Taiwanese performance artist. Her works blend performance art and spatial interaction to prompt reflection on human circumstances across disciplines such as sociology, linguistics, and performance art. Her work I Go Traveling V: Part 2 Taiwan won the Taishin Art Award. Tang was involved in the early development of Huashan 1914 Creative Park in 1997, and promoted the establishment of the Art Creators Trade Union in 2009.

Early life and education

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Tang Huang-Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan on February 24, 1958.[1] During her undergraduate study at the University of Taipei in 1973, she was inspired by ink-wash painting and developed into her signature in early career.[2] After graduating from the University of Taipei, she began teaching for 4 years. Afterward, she resigned from teaching and enrolled in the Fine Arts Department of the National Normal University, graduating in 1983.[3] She had worked in a theater and accumulated experience in filmmaking and directing.[2] In 1987, she went to the Department of Plastic Arts at Paris VIII University for graduate study in 1990.[1] After returning to Taiwan, she became an artistic creator, theater worker, and writer. The types of her works included watercolor paintings, scripts, performances, translations, and publications.[3]

Contribution to cultural movements

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Huashan District

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In 1997, a group of artists led by Tang established an association, advocating to reuse and transform the Taipei Winery factory (which belonged to the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation) into an art center, known as Huashan.[4][5][6][7] With the support of Tang and Lin Hwai-min in consultation with public representatives, Wang Rong-Yu was released on bail, resulting in increased public awareness of Huashan.[6] In 1998, at the appeal of Tang Huang-Chen, Lin Hwai-min, and other artists, the Ministry of Culture officially took over the Huashan district and entrusted the management of the Association of Culture Environment Reform, established and run by artists.[8]

Art Creators Trade Union

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Tang Huang-Chen initiated a movement in 2009 to advocate for the artists' trade union. She invited artists to raise demands, countersignature, and submit petitions to the Association of Culture Environment Reform.[3] The advocacy activities involved multiple approaches, including discussions, petitions, creating short films, lobbying with representatives, and seeking negotiation opportunities with relevant authorities. [9]These efforts led to the establishment of the Art Creators Trade Union in 2011.

Style

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Tang combines performance with spatial interaction to create a series of artworks that awoke human beings to face their situations.[10] Her works cover the fields of sociology and linguistics, using elements of behavior, performance, text, and interpretation in her performance art. Tang includes the application of specific numbers, the repetition of actions, the temporality of the process, and physical labor in her creation.[11][12] In addition, she often uses daily necessities such as flour, eggs, paper, sugar cubes, and bottles,[13][14] and through behaviors like drinking, collecting, and reciting to transcends the original material functionality for these objects.

Works

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  • 72, 1991

The presentation of "throwing eggs"[3]  in 72  symbolizes the death of life entities being crushed and reflects the phenomenon of protests in Taiwanese society at that time,[11][10] in which people would throw eggs to express their discontent. She wanted to convey that social repression and different values between people caused their inability to express opinions, leading to a disharmonious relationship.[3][10]

  • Black Boxes, 1994

Black Boxes was presented as a game, requiring visitors to interact with a small hole inside a black box.[14][15] If the audience touched the boxes with tongues or sweaty hands,[13], a hidden sensor activated to record them. These recordings were played on a television screen at the other end of the exhibit through a camera setup, implying the possibilities for transforming "reading and being read" behavior.[10][13][15]

  • Hom?, 1996

In Hom?, Tang arranged a marble-rolling game across the steep three-story transition of the exhibition space, allowing the audience to throw colored marbles into water pipes.[11] The fall of marble symbolizes the mental and physical difficulties in people's lives.

  • Stinky River Lover -Paper boat Tainan-2, 1995

In 1995, the work Stinky River Lover -Paper boat Tainan-2 was created to symbolize Tang's homesickness. Her piece delivered the feeling of her homesickness and loss toward her mother.[16] Sugar cubes were used to build the castle, symbolizing the replacement of the declining traditional sugar industry by industrialization.[10]

  • Ulysses Machine

Tang Huang-Chen summarized the fifteen-year artistic creation process in this artwork.[17] In the exhibition of Ulysses Machine, she used the form of three exhibitions, seven performances, and seven workshops with nineteen domain experts.[18] She chose the Greek mythological hero Ulysses to name this artwork.[19]

  • I Go Traveling V 2005

   I Go Traveling V: A postcard Scenery (part 2-Taiwan) won the 4th Taishin Art Award as the first winning work.[20] I Go Traveling V, the halfway station of the I Go Traveling series project, was a work based on a real journey. [21]

References

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  1. ^ a b "伊通公園 ITPARK". itpark.com.tw. 2019-03-31. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  2. ^ a b "國藝會線上誌". mag.ncafroc.org.tw. 2019-03-31. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  3. ^ a b c d e "影像記憶的傳講．荒謬旅行的寓言：湯皇珍〈我去旅行Ⅴ∕一張風景明信片〉研究" [The legend of image memory. The Fable of Absurd Travel: Research on Tang Huangzhen's "I'm Going to TravelⅤ∕A Landscape Postcard"] (in Chinese): 9, 21, 23, 29. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "關於華山" [About Huashan]. 華山1914文化創意產業園區. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  5. ^ "華山歷史總覽" [Overview of Huashan History]. 華山1914文化創意產業園區. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  6. ^ a b "從空間符號觀點探討文創園區之行銷策略：以華山文創園區為例" [Discussing the marketing strategies of cultural and creative parks from the perspective of spatial symbols: taking Huashan Cultural and Creative Park as an example]. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "華山從酒廠變身藝術特區 背後竟與林懷民跟宋楚瑜的一通電話有關...-風傳媒" [The transformation of Huashan from a winery into an art special zone is actually related to a phone call between Lin Huaimin and James Soong... - Feng Media]. Storm.mg (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  8. ^ "公民報橘 【百年建築—文化華山】藝術能吃嗎？18 年華山藝文特區簡史的殘酷映照" [Citizen Newspaper [Centennial Architecture—Cultural Huashan] Can art be eaten? A cruel reflection of the brief history of Huashan Arts and Cultural Zone in 18 years]. Buzz Orange. 2016-11-18.
  9. ^ "藝創十年不如一朝疫變？專訪臺北市藝術創作者職業工會" [Ten years of art creation is not as good as one day of epidemic change? Exclusive interview with Taipei Art Creators Professional Union]. Fountain (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  10. ^ a b c d e 皇, 珍文; 姚, 瑞中. "時空鄉愁的黑洞" [The black hole of time and space nostalgia]. ITPARK. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
  11. ^ a b c 陳, 慧嶠. "別說你不能─湯皇珍" [Don't say you can't─Tang Huangzhen]. ITPARK.
  12. ^ "旅行的人在路上 文 / 游崴". ITPARK.
  13. ^ a b c 季, 鐵男. "湯皇珍的藝術／行動" [Tang Huangzhen's art/action]. ITPARK.
  14. ^ a b "陰柔美學—淺介90年代台灣女性裝置藝術 文 / 朱怡貞". ITPARK.
  15. ^ a b 黃, 海鳴. "湯皇珍裝置─表演作品中的敘事時間" [Tang Huangzhen's installation - Narrative time in performance works]. ITPARK.
  16. ^ "另類空間的回返：台南早期藝文空間發展研究" [The Return of Alternative Spaces: Research on the Development of Early Arts and Cultural Spaces in Tainan]. 「邊陲文化」（1992-1995）.
  17. ^ "行動藝術家湯皇珍 15年旅行開展".
  18. ^ "【尤里西斯機器 】回視湯皇珍【我去旅行" [【Ulysses Machine】Looking back at Tang Huangzhen【I am going to travel]. Artemperor.
  19. ^ "展、演、論最終場《尤里西斯機器──回視湯皇珍「我去旅行」十五年。終站》" [The final scene of exhibition, performance and discussion is "Ulysses Machine - Looking back on Tang Huangzhen's "I'm Going on a Journey" fifteen years ago. Terminal》]. matters.town.
  20. ^ "【藝術文化】台新藝術獎 雲門再度以《狂草》獲獎" [[Art and Culture] Taishin Arts Awards Cloud Gate wins again for "Crazy Grass"]. Liberty Times Net.
  21. ^ "湯皇珍旅行7年 走出大獎" [Tang Huangzhen won the grand prize after traveling for 7 years]. sulanteach.net.