歷屆新藝獎Exhibition review

康雅筑|Kang Ya-chu

康雅筑|Kang Ya-chu

康雅筑是一位複合媒材跨領域藝術家,透過作品質疑我們在全球化的身份轉換、人與自然的關係以及社會課題。她的藝術研究是以紡織文化史和當代社會行為表象為基礎,探討工藝技能與體力勞動、生活狀態與遷徙過程、經濟貿易與社會結構之間的關係,進而探討現代如何影響傳統、經濟制度和自然環境。藉由創作反映對邊界、生命及過程的想法,以複合媒材、現地裝置、環境藝術、錄像、繪畫、攝影、織品與跨域合作等方式呈現。

康雅筑曾獲美國佛蒙特工作室中心2007年弗里曼全額獎助金、2008年亞洲文化協會獎助金、2014年龍應台文化基金會獎助金計畫等,以及多項藝術駐地創作計畫獎助金而得以於多個文化進行調查。2006年起在日本、歐洲、北美、南亞等地展出作品,並在日本、秘魯、泰國、印度等地進行紡織文化研究。著有《織物地圖1、2、3》,亦參與藝術教育和社區合作。作品被博物館收藏,包括Jyvaskyla美術館、台灣藝術銀行以及私人收藏。

Ya-chu Kang is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice focus on questioning the circumstances our globalised shifting identity, the relationship between human and natural, and the social issues. Kang conduct her art and research base on textile cultural history and contemporary social behavioral appearance, discuss the relationship between workmanship skill and physical labor, life condition and migration possibility, economy trade and social structure. How the modernity today influences on tradition, economy systemic and natural environment? The themes of her art often reflect of boundary, life and process through mix-media sculpture, site-specific installation, land art, video, drawing, photographs, textile research and collaboration.

Kang is a recipient of 2007 Freeman Fellowship Program of Vermont Studio Center in USA, 2008 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Program, 2014 Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation Fellowship Program and various AIR Fellowship for her cultural research traveling around the world. She has exhibited works locally and internationally since 2006, in Japan, Europe, North America and South Asia, and has researched textile culture in Japan, Peru, Thailand, and India. Her publications include Textile Map, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Her production is multimedia, encompassing textiles, painting and photography that result in sculpture installation works. She also engages in art education and community collaboration projects in Taiwan and abroad. Her work is held in Museum collections including Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Taiwan Art Bank as well as private collections.

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