Intro for the Chaos - Chung-Han Yao

2025-03-08 to 2025-06-29

Introduction

Text / Jut Art Museum

Order is built out of chaos, as much as chaos is produced out of order. Therefore, order and chaos stand in a symbiotic relationship to each other. Humankind has been trying to strike a balance between the two. Is coexistence with chaos our only way to survive?

This exhibition is a collaborative project by Taiwanese new media artist Chung-Han Yao and freelance theater producer Neo Wu. The two indefinable “creators” worked together via a long-term, close dialogue. They went through myriads of soul-searching questions, assumptions, deconstruction, and reorganization of their creative endeavor, and eventually shattered common stereotypes about transdisciplinary collaboration by means of co-creation. Besides, they invited image creators and performing artists to participate in different works that collectively transform the venue of the Jut Art Museum into a chaotic world brimful of installations, sounds, images as well as light and shadow. Moreover, this exhibition includes four brand new in situ works that bear the signature of Yao’s audiovisual installation series. We expect the visitors to see the hidden journey of creation beneath the appearance of these works – and therein lies the charm of this exhibition.

The Jut Art Museum not only continues to ruminate upon the relationship between human beings and spaces in the spirit of transdisciplinary experimentation, but also contemplates how people should conduct themselves in the turmoil of social change through contemporary artworks. This exhibition beckons, inviting you to the venue arranged in a disorderly, random, and open fashion, where you can listen to the prelude that Yao and Wu, as an artistic duet, composed for the chaotic world, in which you may find the rhythmic clues that guide you forward.

 

 

  • Exhibition｜Intro for the Chaos - Chung-Han Yao
  • Date｜2025.3.8(Sat.)-2025.6.29(Sun.)
  • Venue｜Jut Art Museum (No.178, Sec. 3, Civic Blvd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan)
  • Opening Hours｜TUE-SUN 10:00-18:00 (Closed on Mondays)
  • Admission｜General TWD 150, Concessions TWD 100 (Student, seniors aged 65 and above, and groups of 10 or more)
  • Free Admission for the disabled and a companion, children aged 12 and under (Concessions or Free Admission upon presentation of valid proof)
  • Student Day on WED｜Free Admission once on Wednesdays upon presentation of valid student ID

 

 

Artists

Artist｜Chung-Han Yao

Creation has become part of Chung-Han Yao’s quotidian existence. From seemingly broken fluorescent lamps to vigorously dynamic lighting, from deconstructed sound art to structural music production, and from proscenium-arch works to rumination upon the spatial dimension, what remains unchanged is Yao’s personal pursuit of possibilities for creation no matter how the forms of his works vary.

Yao has engaged in sound art creation since 2005. His chefs-d’oeuvre include the fluorescent lamp installation Scattered Coordinates and the series An Electronic Monster starting in 2017. He wears more than one hat as an artist, a sound creator, a DJ, and an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Shih Chien University.
 

Co-creator｜Neo Wu

Neo Wu graduated from the Department of Theater Arts, National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts). She worked as a performance administrative TA in the Department of Theater Arts and as a manager in the KdArts Culture Industry Innovation Incubation Center for almost 13 years, during which she partook in more than 100 public performances and counseled nearly 40 teams to start up their businesses or drama groups with a focus on artistic creation. Wu is now a freelance theater producer and the head of Artexpected Co., Ltd. which plans and executes large-scale performance events. Specializing in the integration of performance and production, Wu has been in recent years involved in various transdisciplinary projects and large-scale events on the theme of performing arts, along with many special performing arts projects in diverse non-exhibition spaces.

 

Exhibition Team

  • Exhibition Supervisors｜Aaron Y. L. Lee, Alex Y. H. Lee, Shan-Shan Huang
  • Exhibition Coordinators｜Tsuei-Yi Jang, Ying-Peng Chen, Yen-Hsiu Chen, Yu-Chen Tsai,  Chia-Ching Lin
  • Exhibition Creation Coordination｜Jui-Pin Tseng, Da-Yan Luo, Wei-Hsuan Huang, Kai-Cheng Cho 
  • Communications and Marketing Coordinator｜Chi-Yun Chang
  • Communications and Marketing｜Yen-Shan Li, Yu-Chin Liou, Yi-Ning Lin 
  • Public Service｜Tsung-Ping Hung, Pei-Chun Tsai
  • Administration Coordinator｜Hsin-Yi Lin
  • Visual Design｜Chen-Huang Chian
  • Lighting Design｜LighTemp

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