| Dates: | born 1974
| | Biography: | Born 1974, Taipei. Taiwan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
City Crevice, 2006, Winchester Gallery,
Winchester, UK The Shortcut to the
Systematic Life: City Spirits, 2006, IT
Park Gallery & Photo Studio, Taipei,
Taiwan
You So Crazy: Kuang-Yu Tsui's Video
Works, 2005, The Chelsea Art Museum,
New York. USA
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life:
Superficial Circumstance, 2002, IT Park
Gallery & Photo Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
Chien. Kuang. Huei Taking a Shortcut,
2001, Prototype Art Gallery. Tainan,
Taiwan
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Exposed: Black Box & Crystal Ball,
2006. London, UK
Sex and Sadness. 2006, Platform
Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey
i-Dentity, 2006, Fashion and Tex¬tile
Museum, London, UK; Bienal of Sao
Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
House of Palomino, The Chelsea Art
Museum, New York, USA
Wrong(ed) Attitude. 2006, Sparwasser,
Berlin, Germany; Paris (CCTP), France
The Spectre of Freedom, 2005, 51st
Venice Biennale. Palazzo delle Prigioni,
Venice, Italy
The Gravity in Art, 2005, De Appel
Centre for Contemporary Art,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Do You Believe in Reality?, 2004, Taipei
Biennial, Taipei Fine Art Museum,
Taipei, Taiwan
The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City
Spirits, 2004, Gasworks Studio, London,
UK
i City_Net Asia, 2003, Seoul Mu¬seum
of Art, Seoul, South Korea
P8 - Continual Outflank - The Eight
Immortals Try to Swim the Ocean, 2002,
Project 1-P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju
Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
P8 - Happy Community - In The
Meantime, P8 Is Taking the Shortcut,
The Gravity of the Immaterial, 2001,
MOCA Grand Opening Exhibition,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Taipei,
Taiwan
P8 - Happy Community: A Gratifying
Harvest After Total Cultivation - Warning:
Heavy Radiation, Dangerous to Get
Close 2000, IT Park Gallery & Photo
Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
TV PROGRAMMES
Exploding Television - Satellite
of Love presents: Sex and Sadness,
2006, Rotterdam International Film
Festival/Witte de With, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands FORMAT 2005, SVT.
Sweden
| | | Source: | "Liverpool Biennial Liverpool 06", exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Tsui Kuang-yu is an urban actionist.
Shown as performance videos, his
actions usually involve the artist playing
roles suggested by the environment,
thus questioning the hidden and
stereotyped relationships between
human beings and their urban habitat,
while at the same time projecting an
invisible city which appears wrong and
yet is actually wronged.
The problematic centres on the fact that
our habitat forms a surface layer which
envelops human subjectivity. In order to
penetrate the surface and reveal the
possibilities of real action, Tsui employs
strategies of making himself disappear,
interjecting absurdities, fragmenting
preconceived realities, and
superimposing alternative sets of
behaviour codes embedded in existing
social structures.
The videos resemble slapstick comedy.
Yet, instead of using exaggerated
physical cruelty, these films produce
violence-effects by bending the accepted
rules and putting the artist's own body to
the test. An urban kind of Quixotic
humour is blended with the Situationalist
detournements. The role-play appears so
earnest that Tsui's losing himself in the
game cannot be missed by us - the
everyday players. While his actions are
wildly funny, their serious intent is to
render our urban habitat more flexible
and ambiguous than we normally
perceive it to be, and thus to help
release us from the folds of the social.
Manray Hsu
| | Description Source: | "Liverpool Biennial Liverpool 06", exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Type: | person |
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