In today’s globalized artistic exchange, how can artists situate themselves within transnational productions and engage in meaningful dialogue with creators from different cultural backgrounds? This panel discussion brings together artists Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) and Ming-Chen Lee, who will share their creative journeys and reflections on international co-creation. Through the interplay of art installations and the physical, and the evocation of identity through food, the two artists initiate cross-linguistic and cross-cultural conversations. Moderated by River Lin, the discussion will focus on how artists negotiate cultural differences, develop shared languages, and navigate mishearings, misreadings, and cultural collisions to open up new creative possibilities.
Speaker｜Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
Anchi Lin (Atayal name: Ciwas Tahos), based between Taipei, Taiwan, and Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, is a new media and performance artist of Atayal/Itaṟal and Taiwanese Hōk-ló descent. Ciwas's body centered practice weaves the Indigenous Atayal worldview through performance, moving images, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation to claim a self-determined queer space, Her work is an exploration of cultural and gender identity, using her body as a medium to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement to seek out new forms of understanding. Ciwas’s most notable art project is mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi (Finding Pathways to Temahahoi).
Speaker｜Lee Ming-Chen
A graduate of the Taipei National University of the Arts, Lee Ming-Chen is a director, performer, and visual designer whose practice spans theater-making, interdisciplinary collaboration, and ceremonial curation. Since 2009, he has performed under the name Style Lab, while also serving as a guest director, collaborator, and consultant in projects across contemporary performance, visual art, and audiovisual media. Lee’s work adopts theater as both medium and method, drawing on collective improvisation and everyday experience to explore the polysemy of phenomena and their synesthetic connections. His pieces reflect and respond to shifting Taiwanese identities and the entangled realities of the Anthropocene.
Host｜River Lin
Working across the contexts of theatre, dance, Live Art, visual art and queer culture, River Lin is an artist-curator based in Paris and Taipei. He’s initiated and directed several projects at Taipei Performing Arts Center including ADAM(since 2017), Camping Asia (since 2019). Since 2023, he has served as Curator of Taipei Arts Festival. Currently he is also Guest-Curator of 2025 Biennial de la Danse de Lyon, Co-Curator of Indonesia Dance Festival, Guest-Editor at OnCurating Journal and Curatorial Board at Curating in Performing Arts, the University of Salzburg.
