Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH 2023
Yu Dien Chen
Taiwan
www.vimeo.com/yudienchen
About
Born in 1990, Yu-Dien Chen is a performance maker working
across the forms of theatre. His works have diverse themes,
including directing traditional Chinese opera, magic, and
theatrical installation. He considers the theater space as the
environment and pays attention to the "vulnerability" people
display. His works emphasize sensual feelings, focusing on
perceptions beyond speech and often revealing emotional
tension within the intricate structure to shake reality with
the co-existing body experience. His works have been
participating in the Festival OFF Avignon, Taipei Arts Festival,
Taipei Children's Arts Festival, Taipei Performing Arts Center,
National Taichung Theater, and National Kaohsiung Center
for the Arts.
On a snowy day, the steps outside the blue and yellow house
are all covered by snow, and everyone must diligently clean
once again when they come in and out.
The Snow.
Naturally, cover the traces made by everyone, and thanks
for covering the footprints that I set my foot on by staring at
myself from outside my room for a long time. Now the prints
of the two positions come to one, returning to myself. It's
time intending to go back up.
Ten things that occur in Arteles:
Human-Nature-Human
1 Keep watching the wind and snow; paint the side of the
pine tree white.
2 Finnish Sauna
3 Re-acquaint myself with my language, such as "xiāng."
4 Me being too polite.
5 Pay attention to my creative value.
6 Know the beauty of communal.
7 Leaving is a metaphor, like a death, my scent will disappear
here.
8 Cooperate with nature, cooperate with animals.
9 Finished reading a novel named Dans les forêts de Sibérie.
10 Completed a script and kept writing more after Arteles.