LiChun Tseng
Born: Taipei, Taiwan, 1979
Living and working: Rotterdam&Utrecht, Netherlands, 2007
Lichun Tseng is a Taiwanese artist based in the Netherlands. In her works, she is interested in searching for the experience of the vital dimensions of life, absorbing and partaking in it, grasping its wholeness; in which exploration and reflective contemplation are profound mental drives. She approaches her research and practice mainly with 16mm film, installation, and performance in the last years. She is a member of Filmwerkplaats, an artist-run film lab in Rotterdam.
EDUCATION
2007 – 2009 AKV | St.Joost | Master of Fine Arts ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
1998 – 2002 NTNU | Bachelor of Fine Arts Taipei | Taiwan
FILM FESTIVAL
2021
Remnant from echo and shadow | when the light hits just right | Vaasa | Finland
Lang | when the light hits just right | Vaasa | Finland
2018
The Captured Light of an Instant | PRISME #1 | Nantes | France
Xun | screening _ Train of Shadows, MARFICI | Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata | Argentine
Xun & Lang | CROSSROADS 2018 | San Francisco Cinematheque | SF Museum of Modern Art/ USA
The Captured Light of an Instant | Lab program | 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | Germany
2017
Lang & Xun & The Captured Light of an Instant | Back to the future: Project! | Rotterdam | Netherlands
the captured light of an instant & Balga | underdoxfestival | Munich | Germany
the captured light of an instant | supernormalfestival | curated by Marcy Saude: This Land Is | UK
the captured light of an instant | 46rd International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2016
Flow | filmwerkplaats film program | Cine Esquema Novo 2016 – Arte Audiovisual Brasileira | Porto Alegre | Brazil
Flow & Balga | filmwerkplaats film program | Dobra Film Festival | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil
Balga | the Independent Film Show 16th edition | Napoli | Italy
2015
Hometown | 44rd International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2014
Flow | 30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival | Hamburg | Germany
Balga | filmwerkplaats film program | (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico | Spain
Flow | 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2013
Flow | TIE film festival | Colorado Spring | USA
Flow | Views from the Avant Garde | 51st New York Film Festival | USA
Balga | Views from the Avant Garde | 51st New York Film Festival | USA
2012
Ning | 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam | Netherlands
PERFORMANCE
2021
Ebb and flow | with Robert Kroos | Process Festival | Riga| Latvia
2019
Decomposed landscapes | with JiYoun Kang | SOUND//VISION | IFFR | Rotterdam
2018
Decomposed landscapes | with JiYoun Kang | PRISME #1 | Nantes | France
Particle | Performance with Irene Murphy | The GuestHouse | Cork | Ireland
Decomposed landscapes | with Shapednoise | Klankvorm #5 | Rotterdam
2016
light leaks | collective performance with Esther Urlus, Nan Wang and Ji Youn Kang | Bain de Minuit#2 | Nantes | France
light leaks | collective performance with Esther Urlus, Judith v/d Made, Nan Wang and Ji Youn Kang @ IFFR sound//vision 2016 | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2015
unnamed | Schalten und Walten & Undo film | Cologne | Germany
2014
(un)FOLD(ing)EVEN(ing) | film projection | De player | Rotterdam | collaborated with Jutu van der Made
SCREENING (selection)
2019
Hometowm | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | San Francisco | USA
The Captured Light of an Instant | Osmosis Audiovisual Media festival | Taipei | Taiwan
The Captured Light of an Instant | Wild Rhizone – Taiwan Biennial | TaiChung | Taiwan
2018
Balga & Flow & Xun & Lang | Praça da Alegria FC | Porto | Portugal
2017
Balga | SSSLLL – Passing Through: We Are Not Done Yet | LabLabaLaba | Jakarta | Indonesia
the captured light of an instant | Eye on Art | EYE film museum | Amsterdam | Netherlands
the captured light of an instant | LaboBerlin Opening | Germany
the captured light of an instant | De liefde voor celluloid | Den Haag | Netherlands
2016
Neither a tree nor a grass | 光離作用 light pollution | Taiwan Annual 1st | cinema | Taipei, Taiwan
jianjian | bains argentiques – International Artist-run Film Labs meeting | Nantes | France
Flow & jianjian | Tactile cinema – Filmwerkplaats program | SIGN gallery | Groningen | Netherlands
2015
Flow & Balga | filmwerkplaats film program | Zagreb | Croatia
Flow | Frenkel Defects III | A traveling screening series of contemporary experimental 16mm films Curated by Mariya Nikiforova & Kevin Rice | USA
Balga | filmwerkplaats film program | Mire | Nantes | France
Flow & Balga | PLASTIK artists’ moving image festival | PHENOMENAL LOVE | Cork | Ireland
Flow | filmwerkplaats film program | 16th dresdner schmalfilmtage | Dresden | Germany
2014
Flow | filmwerkplaats film program | black hole cinematheque | Oakland, California | USA
Flow | filmwerkplaats film program | Echo Park Film Center | Los Angeles, California | USA
Flow | filmwerkplaats film program | Undo Film | Cologne | Germany
Balga | Layers Shiny Moments | worm | Rotterdam | Netherlands
Balga | filmwerkplaats film program | Guesthouse | Cork | Ireland
2013
Sight of sound. filmwerkplaats project | worm | Rotterdam | Netherlands
Balga | kunstrand | Dordrecht | Netherlands
Passage.Hval Station | sub-urban video lounge | Rotterdam | Netherlands
EXHIBITION (selection)
2016
jianjian | Close-Up exhibition | EYE film Museum | Amsterdam | Netherlands
2015
Test | 16mm projection & installation | theGuestHouse | Cork | Ireland
ebb+flow | light box installation | Tom Barrys | Cork | Ireland
2014
permanent or in flux | film installation | kunstvlaai 2014 | Amstelpark | Amsterdam
Moment II | film installation | Riders of the Cold | Mafkees | Rotterdam
2013
Moment | film installation | kunstlerhaus. passage gallery | Vienna | Austria
2012
Projection & reflection | video installation | Sub urban video-lounge | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2011
open studio: Fu | artsource | Fremantle | Australia
open studio: beyond the beyond.pica | PICA | Perth | Australia
2010
Pretorialaan 41 A2 | Kus & Sloop | Rotterdam | Netherlands
beyond the beyond | andergrond | Den Haag | Netherlands
untitled | aanschouw presentation | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2009
rhythm float… | paraplufabriek | Nijmegen | Netherlands
“BAT REEL3” | SM’s – Stedelijk Museum | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
“BAT REEL2” | Veemvloer | Amsterdam | Netherlands
“BAT REEL” | Novylon | Antwerpen | Belgium
“Oh Dear Delighted Moment” | Kop | Breda | Netherlands
2008
Private viewing | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
‘Debuut’ Zomerexpositie 2008 | MIKC | Delden | Netherlands
8 easy pieces | STOK-Kruithuis | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
Performance Night | in stichting KOP | Breda | Netherlands
2007
Art in public space | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
2006
HweiLan International Artists Workshop | Old winery | HweiLan | Taiwan
RESIDENCY
2018 TheGuestHouse | Cork | Finland
2018 Filmverkstadens | Vaasa | Finland
2015 TheGuestHouse | Cork | Ireland
2013 Cill Rialaig | Ireland
2011 Asialink Visual Arts Resident (PICA & Artsource) | Perth & Fremantle | Australia
2008 Ozu Residence | Sabina | Italy
2008 Casaterra.residency 2008 | Puglia | Italy
2008 Hval Station Residence | Hønefoss | Norway
GRANT
2016 Nedelands Filmfonds, Ontwikkeling – New Screen NL_Filmisch experiement ( The captured light of an instant )
2016 Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK) Rotterdam, Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling ( The captured light of an instant )
2015 DKC Rotterdam Visuele Kunsten (Cha project)
2013 DKC Rotterdam Visuele Kunsten (jianjian)
2012 DKC Rotterdam Bewegend Beeld (Flow)
2011 The Taipei Department of Cultural Affairs & The Australia Council for the Arts (AIR.Australia)
COMMISSION
2021 Film making | Shunyata | Klankvorm | Rotterdam
2021 Trailer making | When the light hits just right | festival | Vaasa | Finland
2021 Music video | FehlerKuti_All Ausländer Go To Heaven
2017 Film making | Automated Landscapes | Het Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam / Netherlands
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP TEACHING
2019 Through the elements, beyond the self -Reflective and artistic meditation combined | with Marnix Van Rossum | Rotterdam
2018 (in)visible emulsion – 16mm film workshop | Klubvizija SC | Zagreb | Croatia
2018- 16mm Introduction workshop | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2018 visible/invisible _ BLUE | Filmverkstaden | Finland | Collaborated with Rebecca Erin Moran
2017 Brush meditation workshop series | Rotterdam | Netherlands (ongoing)
2015 Guan _ film workshop | Klubvizija SC | Zagreb | Croatia
2012 Ziran retreat: brush meditation | Limburg | Netherlands
2012 Rhythm of breathing – Qi Meditation and Brushwork | collaborated with Khing Njoo | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2012 ink-painting workshop: nature | Voorschoten | Netherlands
2010 – Toward Ziran: Brush meditation | Rotterdam | Netherlands (ongoing)
2008 being here? there? where? | AKV/ St-Joost | ‘s-Hertogenbosch | Netherlands
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WORKSHOP & COURSE ATTENDING
2021 Yin Yoga teacher training 200hr | Yagoy | Amsterdam
2019 Vipassana ten days meditation course | De Glind, Amersfoort
2018 Natural building course | Keela Yoga farm | Portugal
2018 Permaculture design course | Terra Alta | Sintra | Portugal
2017 Contact printing in color workshop by Paolo Bernardini | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2017 FWP colour processes workshop by Esther Urlus | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2017 Cinema of the senses:16mm film | smell workshop by Klara Ravat | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2016 REMI: Handmade Emulsion Workshop by Lindsay McIntyre | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2016 REMI: Projector as an instrument workshop by Floris Vanhoof | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2015 Invisible Architecture | Experiential sound workshop by Christian Galarreta & Janneke van der Puntten | Maastunnel | Rotterdam
2015 LIFT OFF: A 16mm emulsion lift workshop by Taylor Dunne & Eric Stewart | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2014 Reshaping & Lighting Film Emulsion by Kevin Rice (USA) | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2014 ChromaFlex 16mm color workshop by Richard Tuohy (Nanolab-Australia) | Filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2013 sound workshop by Henk Bakker and Lukas Simonis | worm | Rotterdam
2013 sound workshop by Nenad Popov | worm | Rotterdam
2013 film workshop : Uncontrolled Vision by Makino Takashi (JP) | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2012 subtle listening | STEIM | by Kim Cascone | Amsterdam | Netherlands
2012 workshop Ableton Live by Radboud Mens | worm | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2012 16mm pinhole film workshop by Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr (Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam
2012 1-day workshop 16mm film developing with instant coffee | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2012 handmade emulsion by Robert Schaller and Alex Mackenzie | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2011 film workshop by Tomonari Nishikawa | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2010 d-i-y dolly track system & film grip workshop by Allen Kemp | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2010 The”phenomenological hunting apparatus” by Robert Todd | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2010 introduction of d-i-y way of 16mm filming | filmwerkplaats | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2009 worm- speelfilm project – CTRL ALT ESC-APE from R%tterdam | Rotterdam | Netherlands
2012 workshop Ableton Live by Radboud Mens / worm / Rotterdam / Netherlands
2012 16mm pinhole film workshop by Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr (Echo Park Film Center (EPFC)/ filmwerkplaats / Rotterdam /Netherlands