Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / MARCH 2022
I-Chi Lin
Taiwan
ichilin.org
About
My artistic interest lies in our fundamental existence as
human beings. The curiosity about “human” guides me
to look deeper into our own body, soul and spirit. Artistic
expressions are ways for me to connect to the source of
creativity, be it in the forms of visual arts, body movement or
performances.
Manipulating body, space and time, the intention of my
work is to create entrances and openings for people to
enter deferent levels of consciousness and I hope that by
embodying the experience that the environment and we are
one, eventually it will lead to the initiation of a healthier being
together and co-existence with the world.
Influenced by my conceptual art education in Europe as well
as inspired by the nature and culture in Taiwan. With the
background study of Anthroposophy, Zen Buddhism and
Improvisation art, I expand my explorations into different
areas between art and life, shifting my role between being
an artist, an art teacher, and an art-space facilitator, to share
and engage with people.
< AM I >
The project < AM I > is a series of exploration in which I-Chi,
Lin inquires the fundamental nature of human being and the
environment. The artist her”self” is the first medium and tool
that she started with. By looking into multiple personalities
she plays consciously and subconsciously in life, they cover
the spectrum from natural being to cultural being, from
unaware of the “self” to ideas and images the mind projects
onto the ”self”. Bringing all these observations into body
movements, drawings, and natural surroundings. The artist
moves from day to night, in snow and fire. The rhythm how
nature breathes reflects in the artist’s being and eventually
reveals a wider comprehension—the world is a unity, which
means light and darkness are two sides of one body, and the
physical and spiritual are depending on each other.