Ying Chen
Ying Chen, born in Taiwan in 1990, is currently studying at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Through multiple media, including new media, installation, and video, Ying’s early works are concerned with the relationship between media, communication tools, emotions and human consciousness.
After gradually recovering from social anxiety, her direction has shifted to the interrelationship between personal emotions and nature. Recently, she has been attempting to collaborate with non-human beings and explore the possibility of coexisting with all beings in the universe from within.
Portfolio 2014-2022 : https://reurl.cc/eL1meW
UdK Berlin seminar "Rave and resistance. Politicizing the dancefloor" led by Dr. Anita Jóri
Final assignment "The political aspects of the rave culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the Early 2000s":
https://reurl.cc/lg803q
Ying Chen — Bubbles
Free Projects
Sound installation
04:55 mins
Soap, harmala seeds
Dimensions variable
2023
UdK Berlin seminar "Too much is never enough" facilitated by Constatin Hartenstein & Sylvia Sadzinski
Between vedanā-skandha and vijñāna-skandha, “Bubbles” is a first-person journey of liberation with Formosahuasca.
Under the turning point of Peganum harmala, I began on my own path of cultivation.
I traveled between gender identities, back and forth across the inner highlands and barren lunarscape.
After the final washing ceremony,I became what I am today.
The singing bowl resonates deep into the body; the tiny, yet subtly pore-opening baoding ball that appears in a single moment impacts on the brain's rhythm of generating a new idea every 0.01 seconds, the idea is slightly vibrated into four equal parts, then drilled into the upper back of the brain with the smell of harmala and abruptly stops.I saw that my body was made up of thousands of bubbles, each containing a naked me without sex organs.Suddenly I couldn't speak Chinese, there were too many choices, I didn't know which word to choose, and then all the strokes came apart.A minute after I came out of the toilet and I wanted to go to the toilet again.Worms were running all over my body. I tried to stop them, but it didn't work. But I knew everything would be okay, that this would be temporary, and that I would get over it.
