Using sound as primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction, narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds. Mixing with other art mediums and artistic disciplines, Hsu creates installations, performances, audio documentaries, electroacoustic music, and more. She also collaborates with dance theaters and films as a sound designer/composer.
Her work has been shown at Taipei Artist Village, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taitung Art Museum, ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project (Taiwan), Taipei International Documentary Festival, Asian Meeting Festival (Japan) in Taipei Arts Festival, Festival Film Dokumenter (Indonesia), Toyama Glass Art Museum (Japan), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (Australia), Fremantle Arts Centre (Australia), Lacking Sound Festival and On-Site (Taiwan), Liquid Architecture (Australia), Arte Radio (France), Resonance fm (UK), among others.
Exhibition (selected)
2022 “Relight + MUSIC 2”, ALIEN All-Day Lounge, ALIEN Art Centre, Kaohsiung
2021 Relight + MUSIC, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
2020 Roaming Through, Taitung Art Museum, Taiwan
2020 NoWhere, 49.4 multi-channel sound work, Taiwan Sound Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 CONNECT, InnerSpace – 2019 TAV Art Project, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Blacksmith Project (Solo exhibition), Open Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Blacksmith Project: work in progress, 2019 Season 2 Residency Artists Exhibition at Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Disappeared Sounds of Taipei, Taipei Literature Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 illusion I, Lightning Whelk group show, The Castle Rockaway, New York, US
2018 Waterland, Taipei International Documentary Festival, Taiwan
2017 Laundry Rhapsody, 2017 Taiwan Women Theatre Festival, National Theatre, Taiwan (In collaboration with Shih-Chi Wang and Kai-Ting Yang)
2016 Waterland (Solo exhibition), Taipei Artist Village – Barry Room, Taiwan
2015 Waterland (Solo exhibition), Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia (May)
2013 Revitalization of Chiayi Sound Project, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (May-Aug) (In collaboration with Yannick Dauby and Wan-Shuen Tsai)
2012 Revitalization of Chiayi Sound Project, under Re-envisioning Society series, The Cube, Taiwan (In collaboration with Yannick Dauby and Wan-Shuen Tsai)
2012 Sounds Delicious, Cheng-Long Wetlands International Art Project, Yunlin, Taiwan
2010 Timeless Rain, Chasing Oneders Exhibition (Feb), Formosa Exhibition (Jul), London, England
Performance (selected)
2021 Lacking Sound Festival #119, Venue, Taiwan
2020 Relight+MUSIC, zhēnzhēn Stained glass lab
2019 DaxiDaxi, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2019 SLEEP79, C-LAB, Taipei, Taiwan
2016-2019
Gui Shu (Belong), Steamworks, Director: Sally Richardson – 2019 Premiere at PICA, Perth, WA
2018 Noise Assembly, Asian Meeting Festival (AMF) & Taipei Arts Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Liquid Architecture 2015 Perth (NEAF), Perth, WA
2015 Creative Research Into New Genres of Experimentation (CRINGE) Festival , Perth
Album
2020 Relight+MUSIC, In collaboration with zhēnzhēn Stained glass lab
（Relight+MUSIC got the Silver Prize of Toyama International Glass Exhibition）
2017 Rooty Mental, In collaboration with A Root, Taiwan
Learn more about Yenting Hsu: http://www.suotsana.net/