Practicing Live

Yu Cheng-Ta (b. 1983) from Taiwan often involves verbal communication with the subjects and viewers in a playful manner to create the concept of "life theatre", that is, deliberately setting up real life situations as the shooting scenes. Yu Cheng-Ta earned both an undergraduate and a master's degree in fine arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts. He was a recipient of the Taipei Arts Award in 2008 and the Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. Yu participated in the 6th Taipei Biennial and was featured in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2009, he participated in the Biennial Cuvée 08 at OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. In 2012, he took part in the 5th International Biennial of Media Art at Experimenta in Melbourne, Australia, and Le Festival Made in Asia in Toulouse, France. In 2013, Yu held a solo exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, and took part in the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, as well as Queens International at Queens Museum in New York. In 2014, he held the solo exhibition "Practicing LIVE" at Taipei Fine Arts Museum and participated in the 10th Shanghai Biennial, the 2nd CAFA Biennial in Beijing, and Asian Art Week at the Asia Society Museum in New York. In 2015, he took part in the 56th Berlin International Film Festival Forum Expanded. In 2016, he exhibited in Gwangju City Museum of Art, and in Centre Pompidou. His new film project "Tell Me What You Want (2015-2017)" presented in Centre Pompidou in Paris and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 2018. Yu Cheng-Ta currently works and lives in Taipei, Taiwan.

2008 She is My Aunt | 2010 Ode to the Republic of China | 2011 Exploding Taiwan | 2012 Keywords about Living Room | 2013 The Letters | 2013 Fisherman's Wonderland | 2014 Public Service | 2015 Gray Shoes Company | 2015 It's So Reality | 2016 Booth Untitled | 2016 It's No Big Deal, It's My Job | 2017 Tell Me What You Want