About TEA+
Tokyo University of the Arts /
Taipei National University of the Arts
Exchange
Artists+ Program
This program aims to support opportunities to create and investigate artistic practices, and to apply new ideas generated through these activities to education and research.
Every year, one to three artists, musicians, performers, and researchers that graduated from National Taipei University of the Arts (TNUA) and Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) are selected to stay for a period of one to three months. During their stay, they will produce artworks or conduct research, as well as participate in each other's educational programs by giving talks or workshops for both on- and off-campus audiences.
As art that crosses multiple cultures and disciplines is expected to play an increasingly important role in contemporary society, TEA+ will be responsible for fostering ambitious art practitioners who attempt to reinterpret art beyond the framework of borders and classifications.
Participants
TAIPEI
Tsuyoshi ANZAI
JAPAN
Tsuyoshi Anzai is a Japanese contemporary artist based in Chiba. He explores the interplay between human and non-human perspectives by working with ready-made plastic objects, including everyday items and waste. His work removes the original functions and meanings of these artificial objects, prompting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the material world. Anzai's kinetic sculptures, crafted from everyday items, move in unexpected ways, challenging the boundary between animate and inanimate. He also creates sculptures from plastic debris collected on beaches, imagining them as relics studied by non-human archaeologists in a distant future. His work has been exhibited at the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin).
TOKYO
LIU Yu
TAIWAN
Born in 1985, Taiwan. Liu Yu is a visual artist whose creative mediums primarily consist of video and spatial installations. She developed a series of field studies of documentary nature as a kind of working methodology for her artistic practice, prompting her to reorganize interconnected narratives. Through integrating fragmented segments of space, history, imagery, and storytelling, she undertakes some integrative project that establishes close connections and supplements the narratives. Recent solo exhibitions include “Ladies” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2023) and “If Narratives Become the Great Flood” at Hong Foundation/Project Seek (2020). The group shows include “Expeditionary Botanics” at Long March Space in Beijing (2024), The Brooklyn Rail Industry City in New York (2023), “Aqua Paradiso” at ACC in Gwangju (2022), “Asian Art Biennial: Phantasmapolis” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2021).