(2024)
i usually begin a new project with my body, but the eventual expression can take the form of live art, video, object. i create with material from my lived experiences (such as: frequently moving residences, existing abroad, my relationships with others), and the work often transmutes these issues with identity into hangups with time. through exhibition and live performance, i attempt at capturing a kind of present moment with the audience, to extend the length of that present time.
after graduating from Yale-NUS, Singapore in 2019, art naming 奇能 has since moved to Taiwan in 2020 and is in their third year of earning a Master of Fine Arts in Plastic Arts with Tainan National University of the Arts. originating from a technical background in theatre and performance, his cross-disciplinary work is presented in the realms of the performing arts (i have nothing to do with explosions for Open Stage, cont·act Contemporary Dance Festival in 2022), the filmic arts (you are facing yourself you are facing me for da:ns festival 2020 Open Call by Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay) and the visual arts (i might not be here for long, a solo exhibition for #FFFFFF space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2023). besides his own artistic work, he also works in collaboration with other creators as a subject for the camera lens (Housework is Strenuous by Rin Tachihara for the 32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF): Singapore Panorama Short Film in 2021), as a body-performer in performance projects (SLEEPWALKERS by XUE at RAGA in 2020), and more recently, as a curator for other artists (afterimage, a solo exhibition by Jonathan Tan at Carp Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan in 2023). currently, he is co-directing YAHAHA International Residency for the Arts in Taiwan with long-time collaborator taiwanese artist Lee Yi-Peng since 2024. artnaming.com
我擅長使用肢體開啟一個新計畫，但最終發表形式可以是現場藝術，錄像，物件。創作的素材來自於個人生活處境的體感（如：持續搬家，在國外生活，跟他人的感情關係），而作品經常把這些身分議題轉化爲對於時間的糾結。我希望能在展覽和現場表演裡試圖與觀眾一起捕捉一種當下，讓當下的時間延長。
2019年畢業於耶魯-新加坡國立大學學院後，art naming 奇能在2020年移居到台灣，目前就讀國立臺南藝術大學造形藝術研究所第三年。起源於劇場和表演背景，他的跨領域創作被展現在表演藝術圈 （i have nothing to do with explosions，cont·act 當代舞蹈節的 Open Stage 平臺， 新加坡，2022），錄像藝術圈 （you are facing yourself you are facing me， da:ns 舞蹈節，濱海藝術中心 2020 公開證件，新加坡，2020），視覺藝術圈 (《我可能不會待太久》，個展，正白 #FFFFFF SPACE，台灣高雄，2023）。個人藝術創作以外，他也擅長跟其他創作合作，例如，當攝影主體（Housework is Strenuous by Rin Tachihara，第32節新加坡國際影展：Singapore Panorama Short Film，新加坡，2021），當表演計劃裡的肢體表演著 （SLEEPWALKERS by XUE，RAGA，新加坡， 2020），而近期，當其他藝術家的策展人（《家李座座》，李奕芃個展，窯座，台灣台中，2023）（《後相》，陳陽林個展，鯉魚藝廊，台灣台中，2023）。目前，他自2024年起與長期合作夥伴、台灣藝術家李奕芃共同經營 YAHAHA 台灣國際藝術村。 artnaming.com
(02/23)
new website still updating such is life/art all a process
新網站還在更新就像生活/藝術全都是過程
(09/20)
art naming 奇能 begins with semi autobiographical intimate performance works the personal made public political often times participatory and interprets them into other media such as installation or video to deal with and transform the live event documentation problem and always from the bodily repeating gestures like catching tofu thrown, picking things up with my foot or holding isolated still when moving on an empty rooftop in a framed video then concerned with the tension between the temporal and the lasting the intangible and the material time a major theme but more importantly how we deal with its slippage and the fact that this existence will end