When intimate family memories intertwine with public streetscapes, how do artists, through their creative practices, situate the body and emotions across different contexts?

This talk will be moderated by curator Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh, and will feature a conversation with artists Hsiao Yu-Chi and Kuo Jaan-Yuan. Yu-Chi's works function as emotional spatiotemporal vessels, delicately layering deep connections between herself, her mother, her family, and the surrounding environment. Jaan-Yuan, on the other hand, employs sculpture as a mode of translation, approaching space from a feminine perspective to explore the survival strategies individuals enact within spatial contexts.

Starting from their own lived experiences, the two artists extend their gaze from the subtle realm of domestic space to the alleyways and streets of Yancheng. How do they perceive the traces that have been left behind? And how do they discover landscapes that resonate with their own experiences within the folds of local memory? You are invited to enter this sensorial dialogue on memory, the body, and the translation of space.

Artists
Hsiao Yu-Chi currently works with video, weaving, and installation. Through her practice, she reflects on her relationship with her surroundings and herself, observing surface traces of human life and focusing on subtle, unusual moments within everyday experience. She has participated in the 10th Nakanojo Biennale in Japan (2025) and was selected by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture for a residency at Hangar Centre de Producció i Recerca d’Arts Visuals in Barcelona (2023). Her work is currently on view in Whispers of Traces at the Children’s Art Center of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Jacky Kuo Jaan-Yuan works between Taipei and Oslo. He works with installations, sculptures, sound, and collaborative storytelling. Much of his work circles around traces left behind: by family, by cities, by things that were said or misremembered.

Moderator
Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh is a curator, editor, and researcher who has previously worked at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, post–Cold War legacies, border diasporas, and ecological politics. Recent curatorial projects include Technostalgia Peripheral Memory (Taiwan Pavilion, Ulaanbaatar Biennale, 2025) and Between Waves and Soils (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2024–2025).
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