https://chenyuwang.com Chen Yu Wang Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:54:33 +0000 https://chenyuwang.com en https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Dis-assembling Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:36:37 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Dis-assembling <img width="3425" height="2283" width_o="3425" height_o="2283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6421dc30c53481061c1e698a6e038758e196c8124251411a585667ad65b2de4/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1720_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="164738756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6421dc30c53481061c1e698a6e038758e196c8124251411a585667ad65b2de4/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1720_FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="3425" height="2283" width_o="3425" height_o="2283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d6daf23eae92e7666526e92c3aef412d4468ce751a6adac03c6922410630e2c/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1696_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="164738857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d6daf23eae92e7666526e92c3aef412d4468ce751a6adac03c6922410630e2c/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1696_FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="3425" height="2283" width_o="3425" height_o="2283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d8c8b282a5f0a64871cad5114bbc262c778f58b70f68b32724c2266f7684378/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1698_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="164738858" border="0" data-scale="97" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d8c8b282a5f0a64871cad5114bbc262c778f58b70f68b32724c2266f7684378/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1698_FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="3425" height="2284" width_o="3425" height_o="2284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1be34117abfcd92f36ec50927fa86698b00f230add786b3b4b766351b12e615/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1741_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="164738861" border="0" data-scale="95" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1be34117abfcd92f36ec50927fa86698b00f230add786b3b4b766351b12e615/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1741_FINAL.jpg" /> <img width="3425" height="2283" width_o="3425" height_o="2283" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11b315bb13c93092a6c5fd8bcadfb14cac171574538803beae75a29ea65253df/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1705_FINAL.jpg" data-mid="164738860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11b315bb13c93092a6c5fd8bcadfb14cac171574538803beae75a29ea65253df/dae22_Chen-YuWang_1705_FINAL.jpg" /> Dis-assembling (2022) While iPhones seem ubiquitous now, they are particularly pervasive in the lives of over a million Foxconn factory labourers. The user demand seems indifferent or incapable of imagining the realities of the factory workers producing the celebrated design product. Dis-assembling presents a series of works aligning Chen Yu Wang’s personal stories and reflections surrounding Foxconn factories in Asia to their strict bodily systematization. Simple questions come to mind. Do you know how the iPhone is made? Is this question ever prompted by holding an iPhone? What is the story behind “a phone screw” and what metaphorical meaning does it stand for? Can we disassemble the idea of capitalism through dreaming? https://chenyuwang.com/2022-48-Stories-Behind-iPhone Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:32:44 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-48-Stories-Behind-iPhone &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 48 Stories Behind iPhone 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Textile Art Synthetic Fabric, Threads L:45xW:55 cm each piece <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/444754b9e10c9b1351ca487cedafe307b45da610f1f7808220a84ea1b987a5f1/IMG_1303-2.jpeg" data-mid="164737966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/444754b9e10c9b1351ca487cedafe307b45da610f1f7808220a84ea1b987a5f1/IMG_1303-2.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b5285aa3b20862df2c6aaa54428352ae15f1f1e62692ea21ba6f0c09f44da24/IMG_2351.jpeg" data-mid="164737905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b5285aa3b20862df2c6aaa54428352ae15f1f1e62692ea21ba6f0c09f44da24/IMG_2351.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c4cfe60a520facf37c985bf0bf1ec82b8a6bae682c86cd55495cc91570cef51/IMG_2345.jpeg" data-mid="164737904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c4cfe60a520facf37c985bf0bf1ec82b8a6bae682c86cd55495cc91570cef51/IMG_2345.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b60cc0c5d4d0982fae41f9fcc04207ffcfb9d0bd5291f83fcfbd698e9f2d833f/IMG_2352-1.jpeg" data-mid="164737906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b60cc0c5d4d0982fae41f9fcc04207ffcfb9d0bd5291f83fcfbd698e9f2d833f/IMG_2352-1.jpeg" /> Factory Laborer is not a pleasure topic, and it can be confronting. But why? It is daily life of millions and millions of factory worker behind every product we consumed. I decide to using light textile as welcoming invitation for audiences in the west who are not familiar with factory labourer in the East. Every story is hand embroidered inside the machine stitched iPhone silhouette. Before changing anything, I decide to only make the truth visible as a starting point to raise awareness of laborers behind iPhone. https://chenyuwang.com/2022-The-Bunk-Bed Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:54:33 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-The-Bunk-Bed &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Bunk Bed&nbsp; 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Textile Sculpture Felt, Wool Yarn, Cotton Fabric, Silk L:83xW:45xH75 cm <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed9dbe07a332a461d4489dbe4eec7cace278349b8e40411561a711fe36701d35/IMG_2864.JPG" data-mid="164739294" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed9dbe07a332a461d4489dbe4eec7cace278349b8e40411561a711fe36701d35/IMG_2864.JPG" /> According to Pun Ngai, a sociologist who is specifically researched in Foxconn’s labour condition, described in her research that the dormitory is an extension of assembly line,to maximize worker’s efficiency under production. The bed is directly link to one’s mental health, yet for Chinese rural migrant worker, the bed is another home for a long period of time, the home should be cared. Pay attention back to bed, slowly construct it using a felting needle, as holding delicate screw driver for the given duty. Take the autonomy back, exchange the hours to work for capitalism into working for true living essential- sleep, as a way to protest. https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Re-edition-A-Screw-Drops-to-the-Ground Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:47:25 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Re-edition-A-Screw-Drops-to-the-Ground &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Re-edition: A Screw Drops to the Ground 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Graphic <img width="1748" height="2480" width_o="1748" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8bf00650428e8e8e451f3eaa430bf6166465218ecec8f184b89feb34fbcbc3e/2022-Screw-Poem-V2.jpg" data-mid="164736037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8bf00650428e8e8e451f3eaa430bf6166465218ecec8f184b89feb34fbcbc3e/2022-Screw-Poem-V2.jpg" /> Xu Lizhi suicided in 2014 October in the building of his dormitory. The day after his death, a pre set message published with title” A NEW DAY” on his blog. It was not an accident but his deliberate choice. I want to pick up the screws gently and make workers labor and life visible, by translating his famous poem in to english and textile and share to western audience. https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Dis-assembling-iPhone-Foxconn-Laborer-and-the-User Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:18:47 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Dis-assembling-iPhone-Foxconn-Laborer-and-the-User &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Dis-assembling: iPhone, Foxconn, Laborer,and the User 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Thesis&nbsp;Screws, single size bed, fabric L:210xW:113xH:40 cm <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5fb89e8a969b9481d487f0fd42a22e1fadc99ae5d84fe7ed5bac7c872a5178e/2022-Thesis.jpeg" data-mid="164735812" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5fb89e8a969b9481d487f0fd42a22e1fadc99ae5d84fe7ed5bac7c872a5178e/2022-Thesis.jpeg" /> Dis-assembling: iPhone, Foxconn, Laborer,and the User is a documentational archive. Open up the metal box, take each page out,and unwrap different sections to undergothe research from images to stories inside Foxconn. The archive remains partially void, as the empty spaces act as a reminder forthe author and audience to engage with the topic continously.&nbsp; https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Here-1 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:51:49 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Here-1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Here 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands SculptureWool felt, mixed media L:210xW:113xH:40 cm <img width="1828" height="2144" width_o="1828" height_o="2144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df02dbbde49787869aff00ba99ffb66fa368066b14e357c1d8857c42f1329ee0/24138AA1-EB42-4AF1-8DFA-5A353B125F5F-1.jpg" data-mid="164734583" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df02dbbde49787869aff00ba99ffb66fa368066b14e357c1d8857c42f1329ee0/24138AA1-EB42-4AF1-8DFA-5A353B125F5F-1.jpg" /> Screw is a metaphor to describe labourer whom do basic job in culture like Japan, Taiwan and China. It is often easy to replaced and to be silenced, however it is very important. Here, reproduction of Human Size Screw that no one can dismiss.&nbsp; https://chenyuwang.com/2022-I-made-a-blanket-and-then-I-went-to-bed Sun, 15 Jan 2023 01:16:52 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-I-made-a-blanket-and-then-I-went-to-bed &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I made a blanket, and then I went to bed. 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Textile, PerformanceWool yarn Video 5’30 <img width="1754" height="1270" width_o="1754" height_o="1270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7303f58ed8c439e8667c66409accd613926b830beb244694852c0d0cc39a2bd3/-2023-01-15-2.24.25.png" data-mid="164737077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7303f58ed8c439e8667c66409accd613926b830beb244694852c0d0cc39a2bd3/-2023-01-15-2.24.25.png" /> The performance is about crafting a wool blanket using a crochet hook for 18 hours. Such a simple movement invites the audience to be aware of how a blanket is produced, through moving time and repeating gestures. The work reflects the conditions of factory workers who work in a labor-intensive manufacturing system that makes them unable to fully experience one of humans' living essentials - sleep. By workers producing a blanket for themselves, which shows a way to protest capitalism&nbsp; https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Fail-Asleep Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:39:08 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Fail-Asleep &nbsp; &nbsp;Fail Asleep 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands SculptureScrews, single size bed, fabric L:210xW:113xH:40 cm <img width="2526" height="1714" width_o="2526" height_o="1714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3876ae5a822015a6df03d4c2339d16d4551cc410e090d2c71e874c8f5b9a5cfd/Fail-Asleep.jpg" data-mid="164730317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3876ae5a822015a6df03d4c2339d16d4551cc410e090d2c71e874c8f5b9a5cfd/Fail-Asleep.jpg" /> A dream of screw, parallel to personal feeling of lightness in the moment of transitioning. I am afraid of sleeping alone and be in the darkness. I am afraid to see the screw dream. I am afraid to have freedom to dream. By visualizing personal fear and feeling with the bed, the action offers a chance to escape the phycological focus with the nightmare, instead, to offers a way to look at the fear in its materiality for deeper finding. https://chenyuwang.com/2022-His-24-hours-in-Foxconn Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:33:10 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-His-24-hours-in-Foxconn His 24 hours in Foxconn 2022Eindhoven, The Netherlands Textile ArtFabric, thread, wood L:208xW:154xH:2.5 cm <img width="1214" height="1745" width_o="1214" height_o="1745" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/360be034ca81dfa03924c9123a5aca49514268be25877a9a96b0fc2b64651f52/wall-2.jpg" data-mid="164729670" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/360be034ca81dfa03924c9123a5aca49514268be25877a9a96b0fc2b64651f52/wall-2.jpg" /> Visualization of Foxconn Worker’s dayshift calendar in textile. . https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Until-Next-Time Sat, 14 Jan 2023 21:15:58 +0000 Chen Yu Wang https://chenyuwang.com/2022-Until-Next-Time Until Next Time 2022Hsinchu, Taiwan Participatory InstallationLeaf Bleached Kraft Pulp (LBKP), mixed media <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91bee09f3f09a103743a59781a23b1ee987c40a2618eba03afd8c211dbbd3b43/275852902_290201666416340_3253403009646467543_n.jpg" data-mid="164725420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91bee09f3f09a103743a59781a23b1ee987c40a2618eba03afd8c211dbbd3b43/275852902_290201666416340_3253403009646467543_n.jpg" /><img width="5152" height="2904" width_o="5152" height_o="2904" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3993fb376cc25e3d181be3877d591913a050d2505464aeac88aec49e116eb196/Until-Next-Time-1-6.jpg" data-mid="164725431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3993fb376cc25e3d181be3877d591913a050d2505464aeac88aec49e116eb196/Until-Next-Time-1-6.jpg" /> Chen-Yu Wang seeks to redefine the relationship between body and materials, people and environments. In the process of behavioral display and development, Wang looks to expand possibilities of materials as well as to deconstruct memories of cultural and social structures left by past experiences on our bodies. In the process of practice, Wang saw dissolution and reproduction in paper-making; she combed through hidden memories in writing. Maybe at the end, pains or secrets left by the past would still be there, but time continues to flow objectively. In this confusing and hard-to-define era, this work invites all viewers to participate int he collective action of bidding farewell. They will see each other under anonymous messages, which will be further processed by the artist after the exhibition. Exhibited in Biennial International Paper Fibre Art, National Taiwan Crafts Research and Development Center, Nantou, Taiwan 用手織著一場告別，每一顆手上拿的毛線都有當初被選購時所想賦予的詮釋。面對年輕時信誓旦旦的當初，選擇了告別，向著晴空萬里或陰雨綿綿都能怡然自得的一片。纏完最後一綑線，像不斷複頌的遺憾再見。 在告別前感受著承接的重，多出來的物，情感的累積，都在私密的空間裡漸漸釋放。在不斷接收的資訊、價值與物質裡，透過肢體進行褪去與捨棄的發生。 作品邀請參與者透過手來進行空間上的「拆解」，同時窺探著空間內肢體的「赤裸」，對應出藝術家與參與者之間的狀態，詮釋一來一往內感受一個共有的當下。