Yu-Ting Tsai (Taiwan) is an artist whose practice moves across nature, history, technology, and corporeality. Trained initially in Mechanical Engineering and later in new media art, he integrates technological systems within installations, moving-image works, and mixed-media practices. Drawing from personal experience, his work explores relationships between selfhood, spirits, places, and histories. Through topological approaches to narrative, he creates multiple points of entry where fiction intersects with historical research and lived experience, generating layered worlds in which fact and imagination coexist. In his video works, Tsai often appears within the frame as both observer and participant, unsettling fixed distinctions between subject and narrative, presence and documentation.
During his residency, Yu-Ting will explore how traditional beliefs can be reinterpreted within contemporary urban contexts. Inspired by the ways mascots, rituals, and performances embody deities, spirits, and collective memory, he approaches the modern city as a site where collective consciousness takes shape through everyday encounters. Through walking, dialogue, and on-site research, he will observe urban rhythms and gather local folktales, memories, and personal exchanges, combining these materials with speculative and fictional narratives. Walking serves both as a methodology and a form of exchange, enabling an investigation into how histories, emotions, and contemporary mythologies continue to circulate through urban life.
Recent exhibitions and presentations include: Black Water, Taiwan Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2025); Seeking for Absent Forms in Forests, solo exhibition, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2024); The Prisoners’ Dilemma of Memory, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), Taiwan (2026); Ars Electronica Festival, Ars Electronica POSTCITY, Austria (2025); and PROYECTOR – Ecos de Taiwán, Cuartel de Artillería Murcia, Spain (2025).
Yu-Ting was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and is currently based in Taipei.
With support from:
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
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