The Art of Living is a series of collaboration between New York-based SCREEN and Beijing-based I: project space, a group of young artists in New York, Berlin and Beijing will respond with images and links to a questionnaire on their living and working conditions. This survey will be published onSCREEN’s website and I: project space’s Wechat channel. The season will then culminate in a three-city screening series curated around the theme of stories of survival.
SCREEN is a New York-based curatorial collective and media art platform that fosters critical voices and new forms of exhibition for media-based practices.
I: project space is a Beijing-based platform for international art discourse and exchange, which also hosts a residency program.
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* All images in this interview are drawings by Musquiqui Chihying.
Where are you now?
Who do you share those places with?
What other kinds of work do you do?
What do you spend your money on?
A plan to get rich?
What’s that one thing you need to be productive?
What are the three most important objects in your studio?
How do people react when you tell them you’re an artist?
How do you get your best ideas?
What do you do when you aren’t working?
What keeps you up at night?
A way to make time for yourself?
Show us what you think of the art world.
Advice to someone just beginning to study art?
Musquiqui Chihying (b. 1985 Taipei) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany and Taipei, Taiwan. He works in multimedia, merging video, photography, and installation. The relationship between the human body and public domains as well as how capital production twists everyday routine is central to his practice.
Musquiqui graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts in 2008 and acquired the diploma of Meisterschüler at the University of Art Berlin in 2015. He has participated in several international exhibitions, such as Through the Looking-Screen, Gallery 175, Seoul (2015); Social Factory, the 10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2014); Place an Image / Place in Image, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (2014); 2012 Taiwan Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2012).
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