DIRECTORY 2025

Chu Ling-Jung | Performance

Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung's diverse creative forms include performance art, video, and found objects. Through these mediums, she explores and presents the phenomena of the body in predetermined life events.

Chu Ling-Jung attempts to reflect on her own external heterogeneity through bodily performance and physical transformation. She believes that by establishing shared life experiences with the audience, the resonance created through the presentation of art appears to enable both herself and the viewers to engage in each other's sensory worlds mutually. In her view, this sensory interpretation of art by the viewer is akin to achieving an enlightenment-like realization. She believes that the interweaving of human thoughts and the overlapping of life experiences in artistic expression represent her vision and ideals for the world of art.

She uses chapters from dramatic concepts to present her work, a method of 'dramatizing' predetermined events in her life through performance. She arranges the content of each performance art piece by dividing it into chapters, linking these together to create a 'dramatic' performance work. In this process, she layers the narrative through changes in her physical appearance and adjustments in her performance form, extending the plot through articulating her actions. By utilizing various objects and tools to deform the body, this performance controls and resists the inherent physiological phenomena of the female body.

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