2025.6.13 Fri. ICA Kyoto TALK 057 “LIQUEERED: Performance in the Expanded Field of Liquefied Queerness” to be held.
Speaker: Yu Cheng-Ta (Artist/ Taipei, Taiwan)
2025.06.02
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ICA kyoto TALK 057
Moderator： Takuya Tsutsumi (Program Director, ICA Kyoto)
Interpreter： Huang Mu Wei
*Chinese>Japanese consecutive translation available
This talk reflects on Yu Cheng-Ta’s artistic journey since 2008, tracing his shift from video art to performance while exploring how game structures and reality show frameworks break the boundaries of identity and form. The artist shares how “liquefaction” becomes a method for transforming queerness from a theme into a fluid performative practice, extending into cross-disciplinary explorations of self and alter-ego in his recent works.
Venue： Former VOXhall（5F VOX bldg., 44 Daikoku-cho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto)
Capacity： Approx. 40 persons / Advance booking is not required
Admission： Free
Organaized by： ICA Kyoto, Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Cooperation： Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)
Yu participated in many international art festivals, including: Taipei Biennial, Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion, Aichi Triennale, Performa Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Berlin International Film Festival, Asian Art Biennial, among others. Also, he held solo screenings at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, as well as solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.
LIQUEERED: Performance in the Expanded Field of Liquefied Queerness
Speaker： Yu Cheng-Ta (Artist / Taipei, Taiwan)Moderator： Takuya Tsutsumi (Program Director, ICA Kyoto)
Interpreter： Huang Mu Wei
*Chinese>Japanese consecutive translation available
This talk reflects on Yu Cheng-Ta’s artistic journey since 2008, tracing his shift from video art to performance while exploring how game structures and reality show frameworks break the boundaries of identity and form. The artist shares how “liquefaction” becomes a method for transforming queerness from a theme into a fluid performative practice, extending into cross-disciplinary explorations of self and alter-ego in his recent works.
Event Details
Date： June 13 (Fri.), 2025, 18:30-20:30Venue： Former VOXhall（5F VOX bldg., 44 Daikoku-cho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto)
Capacity： Approx. 40 persons / Advance booking is not required
Admission： Free
Organaized by： ICA Kyoto, Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Cooperation： Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)
Yu Cheng-Ta
Yu Cheng-Ta is a performance and multimedia artist hailing from Taiwan. His work consistently delves into the intersections of identity, language, politics, cultural amalgamation, and media interfaces. Through whimsical performances, he navigates the ever-evolving realm of contemporary media to examine the metamorphosis of “’self”’ and “’identity.”’ Since 2017, he has ventured into exploring the performative aspects of gender, contemplating both individual and collective identity, as well as the pivotal political role played by queer imagination within a media-dominated society through his event-based projects. He also formed a duo called “Watermelon Sisters” with Singaporean artist Ming Wong. In 2019, he created a fictional character known as ‘FAMEME,’ employing a dual identity as the cornerstone for his cross-disciplinary art practice.Yu participated in many international art festivals, including: Taipei Biennial, Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion, Aichi Triennale, Performa Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Berlin International Film Festival, Asian Art Biennial, among others. Also, he held solo screenings at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, as well as solo exhibitions at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.