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2024 Jut Art Museum Off-Site Project: When Freedom Blooms into Dance

The “Off-Site Project” as a long-term artistic practice, is launched and run by Jut Art Museum. This project invites artists to create on atypical exhibition sites instead of in established venues of museums, whereby they can liberate themselves from spatial and institutional limitations, and meanwhile define the term “off” through their unique practices.

For the 2024 Off-Site Project “When Freedom Blooms into Dance” Jut Art Museum collaborates with artist Ling-Li Tseng and the design studio Serendipity Studio. Set within the bright, high-ceilinged hall of a corporate building characterized by its linear and logical design, this project prompts a re-evaluation of the intersections between “space and freedom,” “public and private areas,” and “control and open exploration.” 

By disrupting existing spatial designs and functional sections, Tseng and Serendipity Studio infuse the space with a fluid, sensory language, pushing the boundaries of spatial constraints and challenging the extremes of free movement within a limited environment.

When Freedom Blooms into Dance reimagines and duplicates the images of railings –typically employed to demarcate and control public and private areas – enlarging and flipping them to break through their given function within a limited spatial framework. By transforming these graphic, two-dimensional metallic lines into dynamic, three-dimensional sculptures, the project invigorates and redefines their original purpose while challenging the existing, fixed atmosphere of a space. This work invites a reflection on the delicate balance between limitation and freedom within architectural spaces, encouraging viewers to reconsider the interplay between restriction and liberation.
 

Creative Team

Ling-Li Tseng

Ling-Li Tseng specializes in spatial design and installation art, with works that are unlimited in style and scale. She graduated from the Department of Architecture at Tunghai University and completed her master’s degrees in Architecture and Design Technology at the Cooper Union and Harvard University.

In 2016, she co-founded Serendipity Studio with friends, fostering collaborative efforts among diverse creators. Currently, she serves as an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Architecture at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her interdisciplinary work and teaching bridge science, engineering, and art, striking a balance between the dreamlike and the pragmatic. She is passionately committed to inspiring public aesthetics.
 

Serendipity Studio

Serendipity Studio is a collaborative platform initiated in 2016 through the X-Site project, which believes that the design process embodies serendipity, discovering opportunities for creation from unexpected phenomena.

Continuing with the contemporary mobile nature, it connects educators, designers, artists, and craftsmen through the perspective of a co-creation platform. The team’s works primarily focus on spatial design, installation art, product design, and material research.

The project design of this work: Chia-Shu Wang
 

Works

《When Freedom Blooms into Dance》
Stainless Steel / 968 x 758 x 556 cm / 2024

Starting from the base site, this art work utilizes existing architectural components and the boundaries between public and private spaces to explore the relationship between architecture and freedom. At the end of the hall, a railing that divides control and freedom gradually expands outward, tilts, and then spirals upward, as if breaking free from its constraints, gracefully dancing in the high-ceilinged space. The transforming railing, like a sequence of overlapping dynamic images, ultimately forms a spatial sculpture. 

Originally a boundary object meant to obstruct, it has now transformed into a symbol of liberty.
 

• Date｜2024.8.31(Sat.)-2025.8.31(Sun.)
• Venue｜ Jut Headquarter Lobby (No.178, Sec. 3, Civic Blvd., Da'an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan)
• Opening Hours｜Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00, closed on weekends and national holidays.
• Admission｜Free

• Organizer& Coordinator｜Jut Art Museum

• Exhibition Team
  • Exhibition Supervisors｜Aaron Y. L. Lee, Alex Y. H. Lee, Shan-Shan Huang
  • Exhibition Coordinators｜Tsuei-Yi Jang
  • Assistant Coordinators｜Ying-Peng Chen, Yu-Chen Tsai, Yen-Hsiu Chen 
  • Exhibition Construction Support｜Shih-Yi Chen
  • Communications and Marketing Coordinator｜Szu-An Chen, Chi-Yun Chang
  • Communications and Marketing｜Yen-Shan Li, Yu-Chin Liou, Yi-Ning Lin
  • Public Service｜Tsung-Ping Hung, Pei-Chun Tsai, Shu-Wen Lin
  • Administration Coordinator｜Yun-Ting Fu
  • Visual Designer｜Chia-Shu Wang (Serendipity Studio)