JOY

I am Joy, a multidisciplinary artist from Taiwan. I have just graduated from MA Contemporary Art Practice-Moving Image at Royal College of Art, London. Additionally, in 2019, I completed a BFA fine arts degree at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and participated in the visiting exchange program at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London in 2018. Through these years, I have exhibition, performance and art competition experiences in UK, Taiwan and Macao in recent years.

I am a fictional storytelling enthusiast, often building narratives and bizarre characters with diverse media to sculpture my imaginary world through dismantled and reassemble daily life fragments’ observation. During my studies, I have been exploring my passion on moving image, and trying to combine it with different forms, especially focusing on the self-performance with the hand-made models, which have native materials with intuitive colors and unique shapes. 

Besides, I also enjoy collaborating and working with people in different fields which always brings me new perspectives and inspire practice pertaining to new works. In 2017, I was a volunteer in World Stage Design, and also as a performer in the performance ‘Seven Thousand Flakes’. Through these unique experiences, I found out my interest specifically in theatrical spaces and lights; thus, I had done some relevant research and embedded them into my later practices.