About
Weng Wei Hsiang is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based between Taipei and London.
His practice investigates the intersection between artificial and natural systems to examine how we, as humans, share, co-produce and sense our therefore resulting diverse, entangled, and paradoxical relationship of such cross.
Working with materials such as air, light, sound, and data, he constructs devices, situations, and experimental set-ups within spatial and landscape settings. These set-ups often play the role of both observer and creator, mediating our perspectives of dynamic situations and living systems, and the relationships create a dissonance that leads to unpredictable outcomes which test how physical movement, sensory engagement and the interaction of the body and brain influence our perception of our environment.
Much of his recent work and research has focused on the concept of man made boundaries as the main field of interrogation. He creates meeting points for a variety of organic and synthetic fragmentations, allowing them to interact and self-evolve. Those encounters manifest themselves in new forms of temporality, morphology or scale, in which he envisions a potential coexistence between humans and non-humans.
Wei Hsiang was awarded first prize in Kaohsiung Arts Award and was one of the artists selected to take part in Reshaping History - China Youth New Art; in addition, he had also been invited to Asian Art Biennial, and the Avant-Garde Diaries by Mercedes-Benz.
Weng Wei Hsiang is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based between Taipei and London.
His practice investigates the intersection between artificial and natural systems to examine how we, as humans, share, co-produce and sense our therefore resulting diverse, entangled, and paradoxical relationship of such cross.
Working with materials such as air, light, sound, and data, he constructs devices, situations, and experimental set-ups within spatial and landscape settings. These set-ups often play the role of both observer and creator, mediating our perspectives of dynamic situations and living systems, and the relationships create a dissonance that leads to unpredictable outcomes which test how physical movement, sensory engagement and the interaction of the body and brain influence our perception of our environment.
Much of his recent work and research has focused on the concept of man made boundaries as the main field of interrogation. He creates meeting points for a variety of organic and synthetic fragmentations, allowing them to interact and self-evolve. Those encounters manifest themselves in new forms of temporality, morphology or scale, in which he envisions a potential coexistence between humans and non-humans.
Wei Hsiang was awarded first prize in Kaohsiung Arts Award and was one of the artists selected to take part in Reshaping History - China Youth New Art; in addition, he had also been invited to Asian Art Biennial, and the Avant-Garde Diaries by Mercedes-Benz.
Education
2019-2021 MA in Information Experience Design - Experimental Design , Royal College of Art
2018-2019 Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design
2006-2009 MFA in Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts
Selected Exhibitions, Commissions and Projects
2022 Dialogues: Hybrid Art Project, Physical/Virtual Show, Normandy, France
2021 Satellite Event - The End of the End of the World, Menier Gallery, London, UK
2021 XD Spatial Practice: In Limine Symposium, Wormwood Scrubs, London, UK
2021 WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2019 Aerocene - Fly with Aerocene Munich, Olympiapark, Munich, Germany
2018 New User - Boston Cyber Arts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2016 Transition of Times - 20 years of Kaohsiung Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016 Studio Myan Myan - Goodnight, Mon, Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Yang's Ensemble - Phaedra's Love, National Theater-Experimental Theater, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 ai-ai / an ambiguous time, Wingrow Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Weng Weihsiang Solo Exhibition, Cinema Park Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Landscape of Spectacle, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Young Star New Vision, Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 yǐ shǔ yí shù yí shú yí shū yī shù yǐshū yì shù, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Mercedes-Benz -The Avant/Garde Diaries, Huashan1914 Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Kaohsiung-Fine Arts: Sprout．Young, Da-Dong Arts Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2012 The Digital Mapping of Inner Landscape, Art stock20, Taichung, Taiwan
2010 Time Unfrozen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 The 7th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Broadway Cinematheque, Hong Kong, China
2010 Reshaping History - China art From 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
2010 Beyond The Mirage: New Media Art Exhibition, Honggah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 The 14th Busan International Film Festival, Busan Cinema Center, Busan, Korea
2009 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung, Taiwan
2009 Kaohsiung Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2009 MVRDV - The Vertical Village, Dept. of Architecture TamKang University, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Grooving - New Wave of Taiwan Contemporary Art, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 The 5th Taoyuan Creation Award, Taoyuan Department of Culture, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2007 Microanalysis of Everyday Life, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition & Symposium, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
2006 Video Art Festival, Nagano-ken, Japan
2006 Music Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Grants & Awards
2019-2021 Studying Oversea Scholarship, Taiwan Government Ministry of Education , Taiwan
2018-2019 RISD Grad Fellowship and Assistantship Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2013 Taishin Arts Award, Award Selected, Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 Kaohsiung Award, First prize , Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2007The 5th Taoyuan Creation, Award Selected, Taoyuan Department of Culture, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2007 The 12th Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City, Honorable Mention, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 Music Film Festival, Award Selected, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Award Selected, Shanghai, China
Contact
︎︎︎studiowengweihsiang@gmail.com ︎︎︎instagram