- Stay in | 2017
- E-mail | ccychenyu@gmail.com
- Homepage | www.chenchenyu.com
Education
School of The Art Institute of Chicago 2014
Bachelor of Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
2017 The Fall (advance copy), The New Normal Beirut, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Lebanon
2016 The Fall, The Crash, The Series, Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Taiwan
2016 The Fall (advance copy), PRESS-REPEAT >< In/habit Art Series, Chicago United States
2016 The Fall (advance copy), Resident Video series at Facets.org2016 The Fall (advance copy), II FICAE - Diseases International Short Film and Art Festival, Valencia Spain
2016 The Fall (advance copy), Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal2015 The Fall (advance copy), Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel Germany2015 The Fall (advance copy), NewFilmmakers Film Festival, New York United States2015 The Fall (advance copy), 38th Denver Film Festival, Denver United States
2015 The Fall (advance copy), Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung Taiwan
2015 From The Ground Up, Group show, with Laurie Palmer, Linsey French, Sarah Ross, Alix Shaw, Samantha Yiyao Chao, and Nathan Braunfeld, SAIC Neiman Center, Chicago
2015 The Fall (advanced copy), Time Art Festival, School of The Art Institute MFA/BFA show, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
2015 O and TJ’s Adventure at Camp-Hug-a-Thug, Inside/Outside, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago Collaborative video work with Camille Laut and two incarcerated juveniles from Illinois Youth Center of Chicago
2014 Chair Fortification, THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED!!, Brussels
2014 Paper Choreography, One Thousand Night and One Night Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade, Watermill Center, New York
2014 Corner, One Thousand Night and One Night Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade, Watermill Center, New York
2014 Motion Production, STUFF ON STUFF ON STUFF, Tritriangle Gallery, Chicago
2014 Motion Production, Re/modeled + Re/leased, The Gallery, Beijing 2013 Four Tasks, School of the Art Institute Accreditation Exhibition, Chicago 2013 Turn, School of the Art Institute Accreditation Exhibition, Chicago
Honors and Residencies
Residency
2014 Watermill Center Summer Program Residency
Honors
2016 Honorable Mention, Taipei Arts Awards
2015 Award Certificate of Merit, Rochester International Film Festival
2015 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Press
2015 Resident Video 11, interview by Facets.org
2014 Four Tasks, EMERGENCY INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice Vol.3
Lectures
2016 April Adaptability and Visulity: The Practice in Image and Digital Momentum, Cafe Philo, Chicago
2015 April Visiting Artist Talk, Media Practice with Snow Yunxue Fu, SAIC
Experience and Lectures
2015 Dec Jury, Photography Contest, Chicago Taiwanese Architecture Institute
2015 Nov-Dec Teach video production class, at Jacob Beidler Elementary School with Center for
Community Art Partnership,Columbia College
2015 June Production Assistant, Natural Life, Film by Tirtza Even
2015 Jan-MayTeaching Assistant, Photography Course with Hyounsang Yoo and Sanaz Sohrabi, SAIC
2014 Sep-Dec Volunteer participant, 'SAIC video course with Tirtza 'Even and Illinois Department of Juvenile
2014 Oct Sound Mixer, Remote Embodiments, film by Danièle Wilmouth and Anke Loh, Chicago
2014 Nov Film set Construction Manager, Ordinary Love, film by Liang-Hsuan Chen, Chicago
2014 Sep-Dec Trainer, Equipment authorizing in Media Center, SAIC
2014 July-Aug Trainer, Technical and Logistics assistant, Watermill Center, New York
2012 July Volunteer artist assistant, Chicago Public Art Group, for Julia Sowles-Barlow, Chicago
School of The Art Institute of Chicago 2014
Bachelor of Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
2017 The Fall (advance copy), The New Normal Beirut, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Lebanon
2016 The Fall, The Crash, The Series, Taipei Arts Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Taiwan
2016 The Fall (advance copy), PRESS-REPEAT >< In/habit Art Series, Chicago United States
2016 The Fall (advance copy), Resident Video series at Facets.org2016 The Fall (advance copy), II FICAE - Diseases International Short Film and Art Festival, Valencia Spain
2016 The Fall (advance copy), Lisbon International Film Festival, Lisbon Portugal2015 The Fall (advance copy), Kasseler Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel Germany2015 The Fall (advance copy), NewFilmmakers Film Festival, New York United States2015 The Fall (advance copy), 38th Denver Film Festival, Denver United States
2015 The Fall (advance copy), Kaohsiung Film Festival, Kaohsiung Taiwan
2015 From The Ground Up, Group show, with Laurie Palmer, Linsey French, Sarah Ross, Alix Shaw, Samantha Yiyao Chao, and Nathan Braunfeld, SAIC Neiman Center, Chicago
2015 The Fall (advanced copy), Time Art Festival, School of The Art Institute MFA/BFA show, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
2015 O and TJ’s Adventure at Camp-Hug-a-Thug, Inside/Outside, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago Collaborative video work with Camille Laut and two incarcerated juveniles from Illinois Youth Center of Chicago
2014 Chair Fortification, THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED!!, Brussels
2014 Paper Choreography, One Thousand Night and One Night Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade, Watermill Center, New York
2014 Corner, One Thousand Night and One Night Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade, Watermill Center, New York
2014 Motion Production, STUFF ON STUFF ON STUFF, Tritriangle Gallery, Chicago
2014 Motion Production, Re/modeled + Re/leased, The Gallery, Beijing 2013 Four Tasks, School of the Art Institute Accreditation Exhibition, Chicago 2013 Turn, School of the Art Institute Accreditation Exhibition, Chicago
Honors and Residencies
Residency
2014 Watermill Center Summer Program Residency
Honors
2016 Honorable Mention, Taipei Arts Awards
2015 Award Certificate of Merit, Rochester International Film Festival
2015 James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Press
2015 Resident Video 11, interview by Facets.org
2014 Four Tasks, EMERGENCY INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice Vol.3
Lectures
2016 April Adaptability and Visulity: The Practice in Image and Digital Momentum, Cafe Philo, Chicago
2015 April Visiting Artist Talk, Media Practice with Snow Yunxue Fu, SAIC
Experience and Lectures
2015 Dec Jury, Photography Contest, Chicago Taiwanese Architecture Institute
2015 Nov-Dec Teach video production class, at Jacob Beidler Elementary School with Center for
Community Art Partnership,Columbia College
2015 June Production Assistant, Natural Life, Film by Tirtza Even
2015 Jan-MayTeaching Assistant, Photography Course with Hyounsang Yoo and Sanaz Sohrabi, SAIC
2014 Sep-Dec Volunteer participant, 'SAIC video course with Tirtza 'Even and Illinois Department of Juvenile
2014 Oct Sound Mixer, Remote Embodiments, film by Danièle Wilmouth and Anke Loh, Chicago
2014 Nov Film set Construction Manager, Ordinary Love, film by Liang-Hsuan Chen, Chicago
2014 Sep-Dec Trainer, Equipment authorizing in Media Center, SAIC
2014 July-Aug Trainer, Technical and Logistics assistant, Watermill Center, New York
2012 July Volunteer artist assistant, Chicago Public Art Group, for Julia Sowles-Barlow, Chicago
- Works
THE FALL, THE CRASH, THE SERIES_The Fall (advance copy) , Video/Documentary , Duration: 25 min 40 sec
Format: Color video, 2016
Crashes Without Interval , Dimensions Variable ,2016
The Fall (advance copy) and Crashes without Interval are two artworks included in The Fall, The Crash, The Series, and they showcase the artist’s attempt to use different approaches to interpret and respond to the phenomenon of digital industrial globalization in today’s world. Editing and collaging images of plane crashes, recycled materials,
Foxconn workers jumping off of the company’s building, Chen-Yu CHEN uses the metaphor of falling to question one of the greatest belief systems in our contemporary society, which has to do with how capitalism is vanquishing spatial barriers and has accelerated the formation of the new order for labor time and energy. Using the technique of image developing, the found images are fixed on aluminum plates, which reflect the accelerated speed that the contemporary society is facing, particularly in regards to compressed space and materiality. At the same time, the artwork also shows Chen’s own response to the images. Small models of a large production system or fabricated monuments of layers of logistic flow that have lost its purpose are presented (or are temporarily arranged)
in the artworks of this series.
CHAIR FORTIFICATION _Color Video, Duration: 8 min 30 sec, 2014THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED !!! at Bains Connective, Brussels, Belgium, 2014
How do we participate through the absence from the scene? How does scenes function from locations to everyone’s screen? Through strategies of re-enactment, “Chair Fortification” reconstructs one of the icons form 318 student protest in Taiwan and brings out questions about social participation through electronic technology. Being physically absent from the event, how can participants extend and transform the experience through
aesthetic? The form and strategy have been carried as a delayed residue from the protest, moving in and out of various spaces. Thinking of locality, real-time and delay participation, and Internet memes, this video work is in conversation with tactical strategy of functionality and aesthetical decision in between social and exhibited spaces.
CORNER _Performance/Installation, Duration: 3 hours , Performer: Chen Chenyu, Luis Carlos Villar Bermudez, Thiago Jansen
Materials: PVC pipe, yarn, 2014
performance documentarion; at Watermill Center Summer Gala- “One Thousand Nights and One Night | Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade”
Materials: PVC pipe, yarn, 2014
performance documentarion; at Watermill Center Summer Gala- “One Thousand Nights and One Night | Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade”
2014 One Thousand Nights and One Night | Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade at Watermill Center, New York United States
- 2014 Discover Watermill Day, at Watermill Center, New York United States
- 2014 Discover Watermill Day, at Watermill Center, New York United States
performance documentarion; at Watermill Center Summer Gala _ “One Thousand Nights and One Night | Sleepless Nights of Sheherazade”
In this performance/installation piece, performers repeat one single action with different experiments of body movements. Through these experiments, performers explore body’s relationship with materials(pipe) and space, in response to drawing and dancing. Performers follow a score; “Keep the pipe with a certain angle, the angle associate with your height. Navigate through this space created by material, body and gravity, and leave a line of yarn on the ground as a drawing of map.” The action is at the blurry boundary between choreography and performance. Performers repeat this staged action, a hybrid form of dance, sculpture and drawing. There is a very interior and contained quality in the relationship between the performer and the pipe. This relationship creates a continuous enclosed space between the woods, and the yarns compress and flatten these spaces down on the ground. This line
is a trace of a point in motion, formed by various angle at different time. These series of
repeated action become a drawing, an insertion of a spider-web like line into time and three-dimensional space at this site. The continuous movements, the gravity on material and body, and the trace of line, the elements in this performance piece are in conversation with dance, drawing, and map making.
MOTION PRODUCTION _Colored video / 3D Animation , Duration: 6 min 40 sec, 2013
2014 STUFF ON STUFF ON STUFF at Tritriangle Gallery, Chicago, United States
- 2014 Re/Modeled + Re/Leased at The Gallery, Beijing, China
The video is in response to energy, image, and the performative motion in production. The imagination of images and natural resources stimulates production as well as performance with the actions of spinning, compressing and shooting, which transform energy and shapes in different spaces and media. The video is to discuss how these motions of performative productivity respond to the making as well as receiving of images.
CHICAGO COMPOSITION n500e100 _ Video Installation , Material: video projection, mirror, 2012documentation of the video installation
CHICAGO COMPOSITION n500e100 _ Video Installation , Material: video projection, mirror, 2012documentation of the video installation
Inspired by the musicians Steve Reich, and historian and social theorist Michel de Certeau, “Chicago Composition n500e100” is a video installation that experiments with composing people’s movements in the city through video. Downtown Chicago is an interesting area with its layers. Boats on Chicago River, pedestrians on Riverwalk, cargo
truck in Lower Wecker, to Chicago El, the elevated train, these elements form a wave in vertical.
In the installation, video projection is deconstructed by mirror’s reelections, and the common used of square video format is broken into dispersed elements.
The video installation plays with pedestrian’s movements, and turns them into notes and sentences. By using mirrors to deconstruct the moving image, the vertical and horizontal movements start repeat in rhyme and appear in different sections of the installation. If urban plan is to have a steady and smooth flow of the city, this installation bring up another possibility to view this mobility. It tunes the speed and let the \movements and city’s infrastructure to meet in various forms and phases, a different way how the city sounds in image.
In this performance/installation piece, performers repeat one single action with different experiments of body movements. Through these experiments, performers explore body’s relationship with materials(pipe) and space, in response to drawing and dancing. Performers follow a score; “Keep the pipe with a certain angle, the angle associate with your height. Navigate through this space created by material, body and gravity, and leave a line of yarn on the ground as a drawing of map.” The action is at the blurry boundary between choreography and performance. Performers repeat this staged action, a hybrid form of dance, sculpture and drawing. There is a very interior and contained quality in the relationship between the performer and the pipe. This relationship creates a continuous enclosed space between the woods, and the yarns compress and flatten these spaces down on the ground. This line
is a trace of a point in motion, formed by various angle at different time. These series of
repeated action become a drawing, an insertion of a spider-web like line into time and three-dimensional space at this site. The continuous movements, the gravity on material and body, and the trace of line, the elements in this performance piece are in conversation with dance, drawing, and map making.
MOTION PRODUCTION _Colored video / 3D Animation , Duration: 6 min 40 sec, 2013
2014 STUFF ON STUFF ON STUFF at Tritriangle Gallery, Chicago, United States
- 2014 Re/Modeled + Re/Leased at The Gallery, Beijing, China
Stills from video
Stills from video
The video is in response to energy, image, and the performative motion in production. The imagination of images and natural resources stimulates production as well as performance with the actions of spinning, compressing and shooting, which transform energy and shapes in different spaces and media. The video is to discuss how these motions of performative productivity respond to the making as well as receiving of images.
CHICAGO COMPOSITION n500e100 _ Video Installation , Material: video projection, mirror, 2012documentation of the video installation
CHICAGO COMPOSITION n500e100 _ Video Installation , Material: video projection, mirror, 2012documentation of the video installation
Inspired by the musicians Steve Reich, and historian and social theorist Michel de Certeau, “Chicago Composition n500e100” is a video installation that experiments with composing people’s movements in the city through video. Downtown Chicago is an interesting area with its layers. Boats on Chicago River, pedestrians on Riverwalk, cargo
truck in Lower Wecker, to Chicago El, the elevated train, these elements form a wave in vertical.
In the installation, video projection is deconstructed by mirror’s reelections, and the common used of square video format is broken into dispersed elements.
The video installation plays with pedestrian’s movements, and turns them into notes and sentences. By using mirrors to deconstruct the moving image, the vertical and horizontal movements start repeat in rhyme and appear in different sections of the installation. If urban plan is to have a steady and smooth flow of the city, this installation bring up another possibility to view this mobility. It tunes the speed and let the \movements and city’s infrastructure to meet in various forms and phases, a different way how the city sounds in image.
