Jen-hwang Ho


  1. How would you differentiate and connect the ‘I’, ‘We’ and ‘They’ in your work?

‘They’ is ‘We’, and ‘I’ is one of ‘We’. All the works are generated by people who engaged, interacted, responded, and who were affected and displaced.

 

2. How would you define ‘body’ in relation to the multiple forms of presence, interaction and spatial condition in contemporary cities?

Body is the medium of what we think and what we do. (mmm…of course, what we eat) The way we shape ‘body’ reflects all the ritual, politics, economics, social class, and culture. Body was once expelled from Architecture, and seems it’s time to re-link….

 

3. How would you respond to the concepts: ‘the space is a medium of the body’ and ‘the body is a medium of the space’?

Palace museum of Chinese courtyard houses are the exact examples, so as to Château de Versailles. Body and Space are the measurement and orientation for each other.

 

4. How would you orchestrate the ‘I’, ‘We’ and ‘They’ across two physical contexts (such as this year between Taipei and The Hague)?

Many of ‘I’s with complexity, trust, and dialogue= ‘We’. ‘We’= ‘They’ without boundary. By looking into the measurement of bodies in space in both Taipei and Hague, the exhibition in which the collected data were intentionally manipulated and represented blends the three phrases in two places.

 

5. How would you connect the process of making/doing/auctioning (which may take on different forms) with the process of experience and the construction of new identity?

The Shift/Shifting between identities of ‘I’, ‘We’, and ‘They’ will be conducted in a series of process of reflection and projection made by simulation of inter-displacement of social roles.

 

6. How would you gauge the tension between your work’s specificity and the possibility of indeterminate participatory input that jointly shapes the work in its process?

Process is the work itself. The finalized status of the work is open and up to indeterminate participatory input.