Artist talks: Sonam Chaturvedi and YuJun Ye
Artist talks organized by the Studio Art and Intervention | Environment. As slow as possible (asap): ecologies of time in late-capitalism by Sonam Chaturvedi/India and Artistic Action as a Strategy for Self and Social Practice by YuJun Ye/Taiwan.
About the artists and their talks:
Sonam is an artist based in New Delhi engaged in education, place-making, and situations of associative thinking and collaborating.
She will talk about her artistic practice that is shaped through an intersection of mediums: time (vending) machine, video art, artist books, community art, artist gatherings, artist initiatives, overnight jamming sessions, multi-sensorial collaborative lexicons, setting up automated phone call and messaging groups, and so forth. Her artistic research lies in understanding the ecology of Time, how it has shifted through the usage of digital technologies and social platforms, to question capitalism by embracing slowness, intimacy, and building communities and networks in South Asia through collaborations.
This Talk will start with Ye Yujun's early personal work in Paris, covering her journey from self-awareness to intervention in public spaces, responses to immigration issues, personal self-recognition through public space creation and curating, as well as social intervention and responses. The discussion will also include her curation of the Guashanli Art Festival in 2019, as well as her more recent explorations into shamanic creative and curatorial practices centered on healing. Ye believes that whether in creation or curation, both serve to heal the creator, the participants, and the land, while also allowing the land to heal society and enhance spirituality.
YuJun Ye: Artist, Curator, Owner of instant 42 art space, and Founder of Baguashan Power Art Festival.
Ye studied in France receiving a Diplôme National Suprieur Expression Plastique from Ecole Nationale Supérieur d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and a Master’s degree in Art et Media Numérique from Paris 1 Sorbonne. Ye has often been involved in cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists. The forms of her works are mainly of performance arts, video installations, and sound performances, focusing on private and public spaces of bodies and public relations and immigration issues. 2013 Ye and French artist Alexis Mailles created instant 42 art space in New Taipei City, Taiwan; In 2017, she moved instant 42 back to her hometown-Changhua.
Artist-in-Residency by Medo Art Space & ACAR
Sponsored by Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport