Welcome Inscape Artists-in-Residence jade wong and Arthur Derksen and Jon Chen
Please join us in welcoming our new Spring-Summer 2024 Inscape Artists-in-Residence jade wong and Arthur Derksen and Jon Chen!
refrigerator hum (still), jade wong, 2024 (in progress)
8 min 31 sec
HD & 4K video, 35mm portraits on lenticular prints, laserjet prints of 35mm on 16mm loops, photographic prints on polystyrene
jade wong is a taiwanese-teochew artist, filmmaker, production designer, cook, and restaurant worker born and based in Seattle, WA. Their practice moves through experimental documentary, performance, object-making, and sound to explore the revelatory and healing potential of the senses. Deeply informed by their family’s history in restaurant work and in their role as a caretaker for their grandmother, they use filmmaking to navigate their positionality, autonomy, and history as a queer, second generation immigrant of the Taiwanese & Teochew diaspora in the U.S. Their projects are often malleable in form, concerned with the act of becoming an image, ︎an iteration, a gesture, ︎a memory.
During their residency, they will be filming new sections of refrigerator hum, a work in progress, using the studio space to create sets for re-enactment shots and to experiment with projection for expanded cinema performances.
Planar Instruments, Arthur Derksen and Jon Chen, 2023
Clay, Underglaze, Audio, MaxMSP, Speakers, USB Cords
Jon Chen is a digital, sculpture, and ceramics artist; using a variety of tools, their work navigates emerging worlds through the feedback loops between the skeuomorphic and imaginative. Arthur Derksen is currently researching relationships between computation and physical craft. They use speculative scenarios involving both physical and digital space to confound or reimagine the relationship between humans and machines.
Together, the artists work with computational tools, generative systems, community engagement, and world/myth-making to create sculptures, design interventions, ceramic objects, and simulations depicting speculative futures and radical retellings of the present. At Inscape, they plan to create a series of ceramic objects that center on the utilization of locally “foraged” materials, both natural and industrial. Anchored by interviews, workshops, and socially engaged sourcing of matter, they aim to redefine and document the surrounding coalescence of environment, culture, history, and change.
https://www.instagram.com/jon_chen_/
https://www.instagram.com/arthur_derksen/
