江峰 JIANG FENG
The Artist
江峰 Jiang Feng is a non-gendered (thus referred as ‘they/their’ as a non-gendered pronoun) and multi-disciplinary artist working across-genres in movement/dance, theatre, performance art, voice, text, modeling, film, photography and theory.
They attained their B.A. in English and Chinese literature from National Taiwan University in 2016. In 2019, they graduated with an M.F.A. degree in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute. They are the receiver of the R.O.C. Government Fellowship to study and research dance abroad and “Grants for 20-40-Year-Old Writers” from the Ministry of Culture in Taiwan. In September 2019, their new work "臺彎 Bent-Tai(www)" won the "Genuinely Fringe" award, the third prize, in Taipei Fringe Festival.
The fundamental inspiration for Jiang Feng’s work surrounds love: its beauty and complexity, engaging questions of gender, sexuality, sex, and race. Furthermore, as an interdisciplinary artist, they turn to the tools offered by multiple media to enrich and deepen their work while looking to their own practice as a process of healing and questioning. Setting out to disrupt, they always want to create something different from what people have seen before by challenging social norms and perceptions of them. His intent is the creation of a healing space for people who endure discrimination. Their work offers the audience empathic experiences of the tactile and aural sensation with the sensual choreography of the body and skin, re-imagining and re-defining sexuality and its consumption through the screen.
Their performance works have been presented at various venues, including Itinerant Performance Art Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, "Thinking Its Presence" conference hosted by the University of Arizona, Exponential Festival, Dance Research Forum Ireland, HOT! Festival at Dixon Place, New Work Series at Tada! Theater, Gibney Dance, La MaMa Galleria, Waxworks at Triskelion Arts, BAAD!, Hudson Guild Theater, and Odyssey Dance Theater in Singapore. Furthermore, their works have been shown in Germany, Bulgaria, and Hungary in various artistic scenarios. In Taiwan, he has worked with emerging choreographers Shiou Fen Li and KoYang Chang, and has performed at the National Theater and Concert Hall, NTU Center for the Arts, Nadou Theatre, Treasure Hill, Venue, amongst other venues.
Organ Play 器官嬉戲
(HD digital, 7:15 min, 2019)