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 — My queer body, my ownership
Free Projects
Berlin Pride – CSD Berlin 2023
UdK Berlin seminar "Queer as Truck" facilitated by Constatin Hartenstein & Sylvia Sadzinski
Performers: Ying Chen & Naza Lotus
Special thanks to Zhiping Bian for his technical assistance with the sound and music.
Currently, in Taiwan, only women with a legal heterosexual partner can use eggs to get pregnant; single women or LGBTQ partners are not able to get pregnant legally. Unsatisfied with the backwardness of this law in Taiwan, we created a praying performance of "My queer body, my ownership" to Mazu (媽祖), an LGBTQ-supportive goddess in Taiwan's folk religion, in the hope of letting the world know about the situation in Taiwan, thus making it more important for Taiwan to emphasize LGBTQ rights and women's rights.
