Artist Talk Shu Lea Cheang, Dondon Hounwn, Ping-Yi Chen On Hagay Dreaming

Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang (b.1954) is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending, gender-hacking art practices. Celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998-1999), the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Cheang represented Taiwan with the mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Crafting her own genre of Sci-Fi New Queer Cinema, she has made four feature films: FRESH KILL (1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). In 2024, she received the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. In 2025, she will have a survey show at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Dondon Hounwn

Truku artist Dondon Hounwn (b. 1985) was born in the Dowmung tribe in Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan. Hounwn’s work cuts across media, generational and cultural lines, blending ancestral knowledge with avant-garde, cross-gender aesthetics. An inheritor of tribal ballads, instruments and rituals, he works in performance, installation, video and environmental theatre. In 2015, Dondon Hounwn founded Elug Art Corner where indigenous youths research Truku cultural heritage. Since 2023, Dondon Hounwn holds the annual GAYA Cosmos gathering with artists and researchers in exploring Gaya living principles.

Ping-Yi Chen

Ping Yi Chen (b. 1986) has worked at the Digital Art Center Taipei, the National Taiwan Science Education Center, and C-LAB Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, serving in roles such as international collaboration officer, producer, and collaborative curator. Chen is dedicated to interdisciplinary projects that integrate art, technology, and science. Recently, Chen has been involved with Dimension Plus Taiwan on research projects in technology and art. Since 2021, Chen has been the producer of Hagay Dreaming.

These performances are part of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival running across London from 12 March to 8 April 2025. Built on the values of creation, transmission and education, this wide-reaching celebration of choreography features 15 modern and contemporary dance performances highlighting both major repertoire works and new productions.

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