Weng Wei Hsiang 翁偉翔 is a media artist and researcher currently based between Taipei, TW and London, UK. His practice investigates the intersection between artificial and natural systems to examine how we, as humans, share, co-produce and sense time and space. Employing 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 designs 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 nature.
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 the Asian Art Biennial, Boston CyberArts, and the Avant-Garde Diaries by Mercedes-Benz.
Much of his recent work and research has focused on the concept of man made boundaries as the main field of interrogation. He designs 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 nature.
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 the Asian Art Biennial, Boston CyberArts, and the Avant-Garde Diaries by Mercedes-Benz.
Education
2019-2021
MA in Information Experience Design - Experimental Design , Royal College of Art
2018
Digital + Media, Landscape Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design
2006-2009
MFA in Media Art, National Taiwan University of Arts
Selected Exhibitions, Commissions and Projects
2021
Satellite Event - The End of the End of the World, Menier Gallery, London, UK
In Limine, Wormwood Scrubs, London, UK
2019
Aerocene, Olympiapark, Munich, Germany
2018
New User, Boston Cyber Arts, Boston, USA
2016
Transition of Times - 20 years of Kaohsiung Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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
Weng Weihsiang Solo Exhibition, Cinema Park Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
Landscape of Spectacle, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Young Star New Vision, Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
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
Kaohsiung-Fine Arts: Sprout．Young, Da-Dong Arts Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The Digital Mapping of Inner Landscape, Art stock20, Taichung, Taiwan
2010
Time Unfrozen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
The 7th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, Broadway Cinematheque, Hong Kong, China
Reshaping History - Chin art From 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
China Beyond The Mirage: New Media Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
The 14th Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts , Taichung, Taiwan
Kaohsiung Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
MVRDV - The Vertical Village, 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, Taiwan
Microanalysis of Everyday Life, NTUA, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Shanghai, China
Video Art Festival, Naganosinai, Japan
Music Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
Grants & Awards
2019-2020
Studying Oversea Scholarship, Taiwan Government Ministry of Education , Taiwan
2018-2019
RISD Grad Fellowship and Assistantship Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2013
Taishin Arts Award, Award Selected, Taishin Bank Foundation of Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
Kaohsiung Award, Winner , Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2007
The 5th Taoyuan Creation, Award Selected, Taoyuan Department of Culture, Taoyuan, Taiwan
The 12th Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City, Honorable Mention, Taichung, Taiwan
2006
Music Film Festival, Award Selected, Taipei, Taiwan
The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Award Selected, Shanghai, China
Contact
︎︎︎studiowengweihsiang@gmail.com ︎︎︎instagram