Yu Cheng-Ta at Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Yu Cheng-Ta at Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Yu Cheng-Ta is invited by Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin for participation in Flaneur Festival on 31 Aug, 2019. The festival is organised in cooperation with Flaneur Magazine, which current issue is devoted to Kangding/Wanda Roads that lead through the oldest part of Taipei and which can be understood as both the center and periphery of the city. Yu Cheng-Ta uses his research of the Taiwanese geisha Wong Xiangchan and his studies with masters of geisha body practices to transform into “Shasha”, who plans to welcome guests of the festival into her pop-up live piano karaoke bar where she will sing and invite others to sing along with her. This special performance will be presented on 31 August, 2019

Watermelon Sisters at Pompidou Centre

"Watermelon Love" at Pompidou Centre

Come explore the multi-faceted ideas and expressions of queer identity through seven videos made by international artists. The event brings together artists from different regions and contexts, including FAFSWAG, the Pacific LGBTQ+ collective from New Zealand, the artistic duo Watermelon Sisters created by Ming Wong (Singapore) and Yu Cheng-Ta (Taiwan), and the Berlin-based American artist Wu Tsang. Together these works examine the complex ideas of cultural, political and social movements through a queer prism. 

 Session hosted by Yung Ma (curator, Musée National d’Art Moderne) with the artists in attendance.

The exhibition event starts from 20:00, September 27, 2018 at Pompidou Centre.

TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

"Tell Me What You Want" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Yu Cheng-Ta’s synchronized four-channel video Tell Me What You Want (2015-2017) will be exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. The film screening will be followed by a talk between Yu Cheng-Ta and art critic Maria Bordorff.

Tell Me What You Want (2017) is a mockumentary in four chapters about desire, friendship, and negotiation between a foreign traveler and the local so-called ‘marketeers’ that he encounters on the street in Malate, Manila.

Using a fictitious name, ‘David’, Yu Cheng-Ta travels to Malate, shifting his identity between tourist, friend and artist, allowing him to get involved in ambiguous narratives and relations. In Malate, ‘tell me what you want’ is a common greeting referring to the transactional structures characteristic to the red light districts. By incorporating transaction as a concept for the production of the film, Yu Cheng-Ta delves into a blurred field of tourism, sex industry and performance.

The exhibition event starts from 17:00, September 26, 2018 at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.

 

Yu Cheng Ta at Centre Pompidou

Yu Cheng-Ta at Centre Pompidou

Yu Cheng-Ta’s synchronized four-channel video Tell Me What You Want (2015-2017) will be exhibited at Centre Pompidou followed by a reading performance.

The exhibition event starts from 19:00, September 13, 2018 at Petite salle, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Yu Cheng-Ta in “Film Screening II”

Yu Cheng-Ta in "Film Screening II"

Yu Cheng-Ta’s Tell Me What You Want (2015-17) is part of a group show of video artists “Film Screening II”, which also includes our current show artist Tao Hui, at Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong.

On view July 26 – September 6,  2018

Yu Cheng-Ta and Tsui Kuang-Yu in “BANGKOK BIENNIAL: Cinema Taipei”

Yu Cheng-Ta and Tsui Kuang-Yu in "BANGKOK BIENNIAL: Cinema Taipei"

“Cinema Taipei”, organized by Frankie Su, Jun Yang and Taipei Contemporary Art Center, is a screening project of Taiwanese contemporary art videos and films, at Cho Why (Chinatown Bangkok), as part of the Bangkok Biennial 2018.

On View July 1 – 29, 2018
Opening Event: June 30, 2018, 19:00 – 22:00

Yu Cheng-Ta in “2050. A Brief History of the Future”

Yu Cheng-Ta in "2050. A Brief History of the Future"

Yu Cheng-Ta’s video work Universes in Universe I: World Map (2010) has been selected in “2050. A Brief History of the Future” at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung.

On view March 24 – June 03, 2018 

Yu Cheng-Ta in Corporation with Ming Wong for Exhibition Opening

Yu Cheng-Ta in Corporation with Ming Wong for Spectrosynthesis Opening

“Spectrosynthesis – Asian LGBTQ+ Issues and Art Now” is the first survey exhibition in Taiwan featuring LGBTQ+ issues in Asia. Yu Cheng-Ta is invited for a live performance with Singapore artist Ming Wong at the opening.

Opening Date September 8, 2017
On View September 9 – November 5, 2017

Yu Cheng-Ta Tell Me What You Want

"Tell Me What You Want − A Solo Exhibition by Yu Cheng-Ta"

Yu Cheng-Ta’s latest film project Tell Me What You Want (2017) at Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

On view July 29 – September 17, 2017

Yu Cheng-Ta in “Broken Spectre”

Yu Cheng-Ta in "Broken Spectre"

If the (Island’s) Body Is a (Marginalized) Rice Dumpling Par Excellence (2017) by Yu Cheng-Ta in “Broken Spectre” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

On view July 1 – September 17, 2017

Yu Cheng-Ta in “Polyphonies”

Yu Cheng-Ta in "Polyphonies"

Ventriloquists : Liang Mei-Lan and Emily Su (2009) by Yu Cheng-Ta in “Polyphonies” at Project Room, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

On view October 19, 2016 – January 23, 2017