REALM OF VANISHING BODIES

The rapid advancement of digital technology profoundly affects our lives and societal and cultural development. Individuals with similar traits or goals tend to form groups, while differences among these groups contribute to social fractures and structural changes, creating a sense of uncertainty. The rapid pace of information exchange and the digital interconnectedness of our era highlights the tension between shared human experiences and fragmented identities, raising questions about collective consciousness and individual autonomy in an increasingly complex society.

In this context, emerging groups or individuals strive to find their own identity, attempting to understand how they are subsumed into a specific voice. This is not only a reflection of personal experience interacting with worldviews and emotional conflicts, but also demonstrates how media-driven narratives become tools for capturing public attention. In such an atmosphere, people begin to ask: "Who is arguing about what? What are each other's experiences and perspectives?" These social conflicts and divergences, articulated through personal descriptions, resemble a series of overlapping sketches, each portraying an independent truth. 

In facing such diverse and complex contexts, how do we address the conflicts and challenges of understanding brought by cultural differences? It is like a transparent mirror that stands between the self and life, reflecting an image that transcends time and space, inspiring and guiding us to examine ourselves. It compels us to consider how to respond to the extension of our "external image" and "internal image," and even pushes us further to redefine the layered relationship of "Who are you | Who am I." 

Realm of Vanishing Bodies is a curatorial workshop project practicing bodily movement, aiming to break boundaries and connect across disciplines, searching for a link between self and ideology. The public is invited to participate in workshops, entering the place where body and sound intersect. Here, time and space shape a public experimental field that transcends different disciplines and borders. It seeks to highlight problems from diverse perspectives, approaches reflection and questioning with an open mind, and connects personal daily life with broader social dialogue.

These varied perspectives offer us an opportunity to break through the inertia of social structures, and over time, the audience and workshop facilitators gradually establish an interconnected bodily relationship in the "connection between here and there."

Ya-Wen Fu  was born in Taiwan in 1980 and currently lives and works in Taiwan and Germany. She completed her diploma and Meisterschüler studies in Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). Her curatorial practice includes projects such as Elsewhere is Nowhere at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna (2017), as well as f(r)iction in between at the Werkschauhalle of the Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei (2018). Since 2007, she has also served as the director of tamtamART TAIWAN/Berlin. 

Her works have been shown at numerous renowned institutions. Solo exhibitions include NON-BODY (2025) at St. Elisabeth Church in Berlin-Mitte and so absurd (2023) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. She has also participated in many group exhibitions, including: 21st Media Art Biennale WRO Qualia (2025); Institut français Berlin – Les Vitrines (2024); Schlossmediale Werdenberg Echo (2022), Switzerland; Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021); smac – State Museum of Archaeology Chemnitz (POCHEN Biennale 2020); CYNETART Festival at HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts (2020); Tainan Art Museum II, Taiwan (2019); Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2019); ZKM | Center for Art and Media (2018); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2017); and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón (2014). 

In 2021, she was awarded the Project Scholarship by the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation, and in 2018, she won the Art Prize "A-i-R CYNETART 2018".