Daphne Ting-Yu Chu
[London, United Kingdom]
Art Yourself Atelier is honored to present a distinctive online solo exhibition 『The Space in Between』of Daphne Ting-Yu Chu, a London-based interdisciplinary artist who employs light, sound, and tactile experience to re-imagine space as a feminine, poetic and fluid phenomenon. Daphne’s oeuvre ranges from live performances, interactive installation, audio-visual arts, and spatial experience.
《In the Light of Perception: Phenomenology of Space in Daphne Ting-Yu Chu's Interactive Art》
Date: 2024.06.29
From a locale as private as a personal chamber to the public, a grand venue like the Las Vegas arena, Daphne’s light performance has been staged in a wide range of spaces. To go through Daphne’s complete
oeuvre, I guess the metaphor of a powerful eyeball immediately becomes apt. It seems that nocturnal vision and daytime vision are both at work here, allowing the artist to stay sensitive to the slightest
alteration in the dim light while also capable of composing epic light performance with theatrical brightness and contrast, illuminating the complexity within the light and our experience with the space.
In Daphne’s installation, the set boundary of space is distilled as she enables the light to swim beyond a mere dialectic of light and shadow. As the composed light moves in a fluid, choreographical
progression, the visible air takes on the motion of an undulating wave, expanding, shrinking, and eroding what was conceived as firm and non-movable. Indeed, modern and contemporary art history does not
lack re-visualization of space. A phenomenology of the newly transformed urban space of Paris is central to Charles Baudelaire, and following his flaneur protagonist, scholar Lauren Elkin discusses
flaneuse, the feminine form of an idly city wanderer, emphasizing how females experience the urban space differently. Daphne Ting-Yu Chu, along the lines of phenomenology, is also a researcher in the
Interactive Architecture Lab. Her research focuses on the disconnection between mind and body in tangible physical space and inquires how perceptions change along with bodily movements.
What is also distilled in Daphne’s fluid space is the demarcation of different sense faculty. Contrary to the habitual categorization of visual, acoustic, and tangible, Daphne’s immersive installation is
all of the sensible at once, inseparable, mystically affluent. Eyes, ears, and skins are summoned in the immersive viewing experience of her work till the skins become the new receptor of light and the
eyes turn into a swinging organ along the composed performance. What Virginia Woolf has imagined on the street of London as “a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye" has found its resonance in
Daphne’s work. In the undulating waves of light, the viewers have tenderly projected far away into the early stage of existence when our senses were still non-alienated from our body, were at peace with
us in the clear liquid, in other words, an existence of innocence, of abundance, reminiscent of a long-lost totality.
— Luxi He, Curator / Writer / Co-founder of AYA
About the Luxi He:
Luxi is China-born, LA-based curator focusing on young and emerging artists from under-represented groups and artists in diaspora. Centered on the theme of interdisciplinary new genre, of migration
and displacement, her curating experience ranges from solo and group exhibitions at Lorin Gallery, Los Angeles, Future Fair, New York, to themed virtual exhibitions at Art Yourself Atelier. She has
worked with artists from multiple genres including photography, motion pictures, video arts, paintings, sculptures, installation arts, and fabrication.
Apart from working as a curator, she’s also a contributing writer to the New York-based fine art photography publication Musée Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar Art, China, for which she drafts art
reviews. Luxi’s in-depth, long interview with artists and gallerists can also be read in the interview column at Art Yourself Atelier.
About the Solo Exhibition
In our hyperconnected world, where physical presence and virtual exploration intersect, "The Space in Between" explores the dynamic interplay between tangible physical space and intangible perceived
spaces. It comprises three interconnected audiovisual projects by new media artist Daphne Ting-Yu Chu based on her research on the disconnection between mind and body in spatial experience. She tells
stories about space from the sensory perspective, encouraging audiences to question the nature of reality and embrace the inherent complexities of existence.
Each project uses different methods to present the fluidity of our perception. Through the amalgamation of light, sound, and projection mapping, it highlights the ever-changing relationship between mind,
body, and environment, prompting reflections on how our sensory inputs continuously redefine our experience.
Artist's Biography
Daphne is a London-based new media artist and lighting designer for interactive installations, spatial experiences, audiovisual arts, and live performances. She has participated in over 200 lighting
productions and exhibited her personal artworks on the global stage. They have been showcased in over 50 cities worldwide, spanning prestigious arenas such as MGM Grand Garden Arena (Las Vegas), The O2
Arena (London), AccorHotels Arena (Paris), Qudos Bank Arena (Sydney), Singapore National Stadium, Stadium Negara (Kuala Lumpur), Nest-type Beijing Olympic Stadium, in addition to galleries and art
festivals including Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), the London Festival of Architecture, Artsect Gallery (London), Five Art Gallery (Taipei), Ugly Duck Gallery (London), Collect Art Gallery (Tbilisi),
and more.
Her works combine visual/ sound art and technology to create interactive and immersive experiences. As a former researcher in the Interactive Architecture Lab, her research explores the disconnection
between mind and body in tangible physical space and perceived space. She is interested in creating shifting perceptions of fluid space in continual flux through sensory perception to reshape people's
experiences.
Her Past Art Exhibition Experience
2024 · London, UK
"About Time", ASC Gallery
2024 · London, UK
"Violent Bodies", Ugly Duck Gallery
2024 · Tbilisi, Georgia
"Digital Art Exhibition", Collect Art: Art Gallery
2024 · London, UK
"An Undefined Covariable", ArtSect Gallery
2023 · London, UK
"Bring into Existence", Here East
2022 · London, UK
"DFPI Project Fair", Here East & Studio Wayne McGregor
2022 · London, UK
"The Fifteen Show 2022", 22 Gordon Street
2022 · Linz, Austria
"Welcome to Planet B", Ars Electronica Festival
2022 · London, UK
"London Festival of Architecture", Here East
2022 · London, UK
"Interactive Architecture Lab Project Fair", Bloomsbury Theatre
(please find more showcases on the artist’s website)
Her Study Experience
London · University College London, The Bartlett School of Architecture | Graduation Dec 2022
MArch in Design for Performance & Interaction
Taipei · EC Design School | Graduation Nov 2019
Certificate in 3D Animation, Creative Coding, Motion Graphics
Taipei · Shih Hsin University | Graduation Jun 2016
BA in Journalism
Her Bibliography
Featured in Book “Collected Light Volume Two”
Light Collective, will release on Nov 20, 2024
Review from "SWANFALL ART Magazine" (link)
Review from "Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation" (link)
Featured in magazine "Artist Talk Magazine Issue 30" (page 97)
Featured in book "101 Contemporary Artists and More VOL 5" (page 164)
Featured in magazine "Collect Art Magazine Issue 39" (page 5)
Interview and Review from "Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine" (link)
Review from magazine “AVL WORLD Magazine: NOVEMBER 2023" (page 42)
Interview and Review from "TPi Magazine"
Enlightening Narratives: Daphne Ting-Yu Chu Explores Storytelling Through Light
(link)