Performance Curators Academy

Chang I-Wen is an Associate Professor in the International MA Program in Studies of Arts and Creative Industries at Taipei National University of the Arts. She earned her Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds a Master of Arts degree in 

Art History from her current institution. Chang’s research interests are interdisciplinary and intercultural performance, indigeneity, and curating performativity. She is a dance scholar and performance critic, known for her book Beyond Dancing: Dance in Contemporary Art (Taipei: BOOKMAN BOOKS, 2022). She has co-authored several significant publications, including Inter-Asia in Motion: Dance as Method (New York: Routledge, 2024) and Networked Bodies: The Culture and Ecosystem of Contemporary Performance (Taipei: Taipei Performing Arts Center, 2022). Her articles appear in journals such as the Journal for the History of the Body, Arts Review, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Taiwan Dance Research Journal, Culturebot, and Curatography. Beyond her academic endeavors, she curated the exhibition Digital Corporeality at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) in 2021, and co-curated the 2022 Taiwan Art Biennial—Love and Death of Sentient Beings (with Manray Hsu) at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from 2022 to 2023.

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