Fact Residency: Tianzhuo Chen
Fact Residency: Tianzhuo Chen
Tianzhuo Chen explores the connections between the physical limits of the human body and the potential, through performance, for emotional and spiritual transformation.
In all of his work, Tianzhuo Chen explores the connections between the physical limits of the human body and the potential, through performance, for emotional and spiritual transformation. Deeply influenced by his Tibetan Buddhist beliefs, in the context of his work this liminality manifests as a continuous dialogue between the mortal and the divine, a relationship which is brought to vivid life in the worlds Chen creates. In The Dust the ceremonial instruments used to establish these lines of communication between gods and humans are themselves elevated to protagonists, granted agency in the video work’s disembodied narrative, while in Trance gods and humans exist in the same aesthetic realm, moving to the same rhythm.