Since 2021, Critical Path has partnered with Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) – 臺灣當代文化實驗場 – and the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, Australia – to co-organise the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program.
In 2024, the third year of the exchange program, Critical Path will support 2 Australian based artists to travel to Taiwan to work with 2 Taiwan based artists and continue their collaborative interrogation of choreography and technology.
This year’s exchange program will conclude with 2 presentations in Taiwan. The preview performance will take place at DOME 2.0 onsite at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei and the premiere season will be announced in late September. The artwork will continue as an installation on display for 1 month following these live presentations.
The collaborating artists are:
- Roslyn Orlando
- Nasim Patel
- Tian Zi-Ping (田子平）
- Lee Ming-Chieh (李明潔)
Artists pictured: Roslyn Orlando and Lee Ming-Chieh (李明潔). Image courtesy of M@.
This program is hosted by Critical Path’s resident artist and curator interrogating technology and choreography – M@ aka Matt Cornell – who will continue to work from C-LAB in Taipei alongside C-LAB curators Wu Darken and Cicia Wang, and project manager Cindy Lin 林欣怡, on this multi-year exchange.
More info on the 2024 mentors:
Eisa Jocson: exposes body politics in the service and entertainment industry as seen through the unique socioeconomic lens of the Philippines. She studies how the body moves and what conditions make it move – be it social mobility or movement out of Philippines through migrant work. In all her creations – from pole to macho dancing and hostess to Disney princess studies – capital is the driving force of movement pushing the indentured body into spatial geographies.
Su Yu-Hsin (b.1989) is a Taiwanese artist and filmmaker currently based in Berlin. She approaches ecology from the point of view of its close relationship with technology. In her film and video installations, her artistic research reflects on technology, ecology, and the critical infrastructure in which the human and non-human converge. Her analytical and poetic storytelling focuses on map-making, operational photography, and the technical production of geographical knowledge. Su has participated in group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2021), Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2021), Taipei Biennial (2020), ZKM Karlsruhe (2020), Kyoto Art Center (2020), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (2020), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2019), and Junín Contemporary Art Museum (2018). She was a finalist in the 8th Huayu Youth Award (2020) and LOOP Barcelona Discover (2018).
Additional special thanks to 2022 and 2023 mentor Linda Dement who will rejoin the program in 2025.
More info on the 2024 artists:
Tian Zi-Ping works mainly focus on the reflection towards the technical production and media era, and also attempt to achieve the multi-perspective artwork through the creative process. Tian shifts between roles of audio visual technician, visual designer, and executive producer of new media devices at exhibition and theatre.
Lee Ming-Chieh is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan. Her recent artworks are focusing on the phenomenon of “Nomadicity of current generation” that people long for moving and yet search for sense of security in it at the same time. She usually focused on the dynamic of body, objects and things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity of body and space.
Roslyn Orlando is a multidisciplinary artist working across live performance, video, text and experimental music. She is interested in the ways new technologies produce language, communication and meaning. Her work explores how these networked systems infiltrate, co-opt and disrupt our ontologies, emotional transmissions and experiences of time, memory, death, desire, friendship and other socially formed cognitions.
Nasim Patel is an artist engaging with diasporic identities, technologies and the Anthropocene through rap, digital work, game development, performance, and writing. He has worked with artists such as Jo Lloyd, Matt Cornell, and Chris Chua, with whom he helped develop the interactive video game performance ‘BeatStorm‘. Nasim’s major two recent works ‘non-paradise’, a short film commissioned through the Sydney Opera House’s Shortwave program, and ‘Equivalent Voids’, created as an outcome for The Grimwade Collection Miegunyah Student Project Awards 2023, both explored the universality of desert spaces, parallels between void spaces and digital environments, and the particular experience of the early migrant cameleers in Central Australia. He is currently working with producer Tom Benter on a collaborative debut rap album, titled ‘Freckles on My Ancestor’s Face’
To read about 2nd year of the exchange program (2023) please click here.
To read about year 1 of the exchange program (2022), please click to download the wrap up (PDF A2) poster for 2022 or email [email protected] to collect a printed poster for your wall.
And click below to read about the specific Labs of 2022.
Physical Futures Digital Exchange Residency
This exchange is digitally hosted on data servers sit atop unceded lands of displaced first peoples, and the connecting fibre-optic submarine data cable runs through the lands and waters of many displaced first peoples across what recently became known as East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Both the Critical Path Drill Hall dance studio and CLAB campus are former military research sites that sit atop lands of displaced first peoples and we acknowledge their ongoing connection and custodianship.
Principle on-going project partners:
The 2024 iteration of this project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Critical Path is supported by:
