Photography: 林育全
王永安 Wang Yung An (Taipei, Taiwan)
Bio
Wang Yung An focuses her research in the context of touch cognitive mechanisms, while expanding her artistic approach in performance and visual language. With an emphasis on deducing inner-material dynamics under the skin, Wang has been developing a touch score/script system to investigate biopolitics via varying body codes, boundaries and interoceptive feelings. Her work reflects on the gaps between human and non-human life. Her creative propositions question the haptics of seeing, as well as how skin can act as a thinking organ.
Education
2014 National Taiwan University of Arts, B.F.A. in Fine Art
2023 National Central University, M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience
2023 National Central University, M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience
PERFORMANCE (Selected)
2022 Performance, Asymmetric Utopia, Industrial Technology Research Institute(ITRI), la nuit blanche, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Performance, The quilt gets out of the bridge while Su Yi-Shi is..., Duck Art Studio, Thinkers Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Performance, Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing III, Taipei Fringe Festival, Nadou Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Performance, Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing I, Florāotu, Blueprint Culture & Creative Park, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 Performance, Vimprodaco - Vienna improvisations dance company :: 7 TIMES 7 TWO ::, Vienna City, Vienna, Austria
2021 Performance, The quilt gets out of the bridge while Su Yi-Shi is..., Duck Art Studio, Thinkers Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Performance, Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing III, Taipei Fringe Festival, Nadou Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Performance, Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing I, Florāotu, Blueprint Culture & Creative Park, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 Performance, Vimprodaco - Vienna improvisations dance company :: 7 TIMES 7 TWO ::, Vienna City, Vienna, Austria
EXHIBITION (Selected)
2020 Human Fabric Trilogy - The Haptics of Seeing II, Palace Museum, C-Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Mosaika collaborative, Mosaika, Montreal, Canada
2017 Alter experiences, Guelph, Canada
2014 Floating frequency, URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Lifestyle & art, Fujian, China
2014 Hualien Culture & Creative Art, Hualien cultural creative industries park, Hualien, Taiwan
2013 Magic Narrow People, Longshan Temple Culture Plaza, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Pluto is not a planet, New Taipei City Arts Center, New Taipei city, Taiwan
2012 Tides, Duxing Military dependents' village Cultural Park, Penghu, Taiwan
2011 Green Zone, Beitou Public Assembly Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Mosaika collaborative, Mosaika, Montreal, Canada
2017 Alter experiences, Guelph, Canada
2014 Floating frequency, URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Lifestyle & art, Fujian, China
2014 Hualien Culture & Creative Art, Hualien cultural creative industries park, Hualien, Taiwan
2013 Magic Narrow People, Longshan Temple Culture Plaza, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Pluto is not a planet, New Taipei City Arts Center, New Taipei city, Taiwan
2012 Tides, Duxing Military dependents' village Cultural Park, Penghu, Taiwan
2011 Green Zone, Beitou Public Assembly Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
RESIDENCIES
2022 Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan
2012 Duxing Military dependents' village Cultural Park, Penghu, Taiwan
2012 Duxing Military dependents' village Cultural Park, Penghu, Taiwan
WORKSHOP, TALKS and RESEARCH
2023 Academic Writing, The Changes in EEG Theta Oscillation Induced by Affective Touch: Comparing Brush Stroke, Hand Stroke, and Massage-like Tapping, Researcher, Human Memory & Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory.
2022 Workshop, Seven Bodies & the Talking Sea, Moss Piglets, The Cultural Taiwan Foundation. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2021 Online Workshop, Seven Bodies & the Talking Sea, Moss Piglets, The Cultural Taiwan Foundation
2022 Workshop, Seven Bodies & the Talking Sea, Moss Piglets, The Cultural Taiwan Foundation. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2021 Online Workshop, Seven Bodies & the Talking Sea, Moss Piglets, The Cultural Taiwan Foundation
PUBLIC ART
2015 Artistic Design, Under the melon shed, Artist, DADA Art, Chaozhou Train Station, Pingtung, Taiwan
2017 Mosaicist, Chuck Close- Subway Portraits, Mosaika, New York, USA.
2018 Mosaicist, Stephen Andrews- a part of/ apart from, Mosaika, Paris, France
2018 Mosaicist, Yoko Ono- Sky (72nd Street Station), Mosaika, New York, USA.
2018 Mosaicist, Dixie Friend Gay - Expanding and Collapsing, Mosaika, Cheney WA, USA.
2017 Mosaicist, Chuck Close- Subway Portraits, Mosaika, New York, USA.
2018 Mosaicist, Stephen Andrews- a part of/ apart from, Mosaika, Paris, France
2018 Mosaicist, Yoko Ono- Sky (72nd Street Station), Mosaika, New York, USA.
2018 Mosaicist, Dixie Friend Gay - Expanding and Collapsing, Mosaika, Cheney WA, USA.