Organized by ‘citing bar’, the ‘Transversal Poetics Workshop’ is inspired by the concept of ‘transversal posthumanities’ which has been extended by the Australian feminist environmental humanities reading group to ‘Transversal Poetics.*’ This workshop will pick up from Yeh’s unfinished discussions around concepts such as improvisation, play, and unpredictability, by drawing from all kinds of literature in the exhibition, including personal statements, reviews, reports, and creative writing. Through an interwoven act of gathering, assembling, and citing historical texts, the process of collective creation will manifest itself in real time. The workshop hopes to broaden and activate further responses to Yeh’s art and worldview, sustaining its dialogue and exploration.
Despite each individual and every sentence being so different, they are forever interdependent and interconnected, just like life’s flow and the arising of opportunities. When the translucent, ambiguous spaces between order and chaos, the known and unknown, and the intimate and the unfamiliar are encountered, this is where poetry meets the true ‘present.
(This workshop is commissioned by the exhibition “YEH CHU-SHENG: A Work is Never Complete – It Merely Rests or Pauses” curated by Guo Jau-lan. )
* Gardiner, J., Singer, H., Hamilton, J., Neimanis, A., & Blaise, M. (2022). Reading Group as Method for Feminist Environmental Humanities. Australian Feminist Studies, 37(113), 296–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2023.2267759
- TSAI Wan Shuen
TSAI Wan Shuen grew up in the archipelago of Penghu, Taiwan. Studied and lived in France
during several years and nowadays settled in the region of Taipei. Her artwork is shared between mixed-media installation, drawing, video and poetry. Her installations are ephemeral and constitutes a specific relationship to the physical space and architecture. Her image creation suggests an opening of narration and transforms a landscape into a mental space.
In parallel of her personal projects, she collaborates since 2004 with sound artist Yannick Dauby under the group name Shijingren, focusing on audio-visual works about landscape. In 2008, they founded Atelier Hui-Kan developing activities related to pedagogy, publication and communities.
Tsai is the author of the following publications: a poetry collection titled Tide (2006, Penghu County Government Cultural Bureau ); A collection of poems and drawings titled Strangly Held (2013, Initial Publish.); and a letterpress printed poetry book with audio, realized with her child, Je Voudrais Me Réveiller Dans la Mer (2017, Initial Publish.). Sensory Weaving, a personal poetry anthology (2021, Initial Publish.)
