GlogauAIR resident from 01 October 2017 to 30 November 2017

http://jiajenlin.info/

During my time at this residency, I will develop a new project, “Funes’ Broken Mirror,” and to conduct research on related subjects and their visual representations—such as memories, modifications of objects and images, and our cyborg-perceptions and consciousness within this prevailing era of technology. “Funes’ Broken Mirror” explores the process of searching for and reconfiguring memories.
It will highlight how we can edit, override, and remap them into new terms and terrains through a variety of physical and visual experiences over time. This project is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ “Funes the Memorious” novella, in which he depicts Funes as a man who remembers everything and thus is incapable of thinking. Everything is forever imprinted in Funes’ mind as a vast mirror of the world. His most distant memories are as vivid as those of a moment ago. Based on this character, I start to imagine how the world will look from his perspective. Can we break this vast mirror and recompose the fragments into what we would like to see? In my studio, I will create a series of modular works composed of sculptures, videos, photographs, and sound elements.

I will reedit the images and videos I have collected from different manufacture and post-industrial sites. By transforming them into other formats and structures, I will explore different possibilities and metaphors to recreate both physical memories and the digital memories that I recorded while visiting these sites. Furthermore, I will look at how digital devices become essential to my thinking process and eventually embed them into my body of sensations during the moments of receiving or recalling information. Besides enlarging original images into installations,

I would like to edit those images, along with photographs of artwork, into a photo book. It will reflect how images and their content can be transported and altered throughout the processes and presentations.

Education
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in affiliation with Tufts University, MA, 2007 Concentration on Sculpture, Installation, and Multimedia
BFA, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan, 2002
Major in Western Painting

Solo Exibitions
Manufracture Series: Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
The Archival Body, Archetype Factory, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
We Might Have to Excise Your Lung, chashama 461 Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Mirror Therapy, Attic Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
Turn Around the Back, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany, 2012
We Lost Our Arms and Legs in Groups, Black and White Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2011
Flowing . Circulating, Power Space Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan, 2009
Manu-fractured, Taipei Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2009
Bow, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2008
Please Fold Up Along the Line, NTNU, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003
Display of Furniture, OSO Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002

Selected Group Exhibitions And Performances
Spring Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, 2017
Borderless: In Perspective, Lite-haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Manufractura, Hangar, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
Open Studio, chashama Studio at Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Open Studio, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 2014
Yǐ Shǔ Yi Shu Yi Shu Yi Shū Yī Shu Yǐ Shū Yi Shu, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
FSP/ Jerome Fellowship Artists on exhibition, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN, 2012-present
Deep Brain Stimulation, Ruin Academy, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Made in Taiwan-Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Enter-Exit-Enter-Exit : Experimental Body Exchange Project, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Lost in Digi-tration, Nanhai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Figure of Illusion–Japan Taiwan Exchange Exhibition, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan, 2011
She : Visions of Women by Taiwanese Artists, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY, 2009
2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea, 2009
Queens International 4, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, 2009
The Paradox of Water, The Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, 2008
The 13th Annual International Women’s Exhibition, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
Viridian 18th National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists, New York, NY, 2007
National Prize Show 2007, Cambridge Art Association, MA, 2007

Selected Grants And Honors
Brooklyn Arts Fund- Interdisciplinary, Brooklyn Arts Council, USA, 2016
Creation Grant in Fine Arts, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2015-16
International Cultural Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2016
International Cultural Exchange Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2015
International Residency and Cultural Exchange Grant, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, 2014
Creation Grant in Fine Arts, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, 2011
The Performing Arts Grant, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, 2011
FSP/ Jerome Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, USA, 2012
The First Place, The Paradox of the Water, The Westport Arts Center, USA, 2008
Jurors’ Recognition, SMFA Student Annual, SMFA, USA, 2007

Selected Residencies International Studio & Curatorial Program
L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain, 2015
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 2014
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, 2012
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia, 2010
Watermill Center, Watermill, NY, 2010
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2010