We invited Wang Yu Wen & Lin Jui Yu from The Dulan Art Community, Taitung, Taiwan so introduce their method of working and exploring into the realms of social orientated art practices. For this they will conduce the following workshops which will conclude in a presentation of the results @ Forplay Society:
Workshop 1 – Free admission
Wang Yu Wen: Landscapes in the Hands
(2 sessions / 60 minutes per session )
14 / 01 / 2026 3.00 pm
16 / 01 / 2026 3.00 pm
Concept
This workshop centers on unconscious bodily gestures embedded in everyday life —moments often overlooked as the mind drifts elsewhere. By returning attention to the hands as sites of repetitive, tacit action, participants are invited to re-engage with their bodies and reframe perception through image-making.
Using plant-based dye development techniques, participants draw their own hands and transform these drawings into collective visual traces. The resulting images are later assembled into a moving-image work, emphasizing shared embodiment and the politics of attention.
Process
1. Screening of excerpts from plant-dye animation works created in Taiwan
2. Introduction to plant-based dye development techniques
3. Hand-drawing session
4. Post-production and compilation of images into a video work
Workshop 2 – Free admission
Lin Jui Yu: Co-Twisting
(2 sessions / 60 minutes per session )
15 / 01 / 2026 3.00 pm
17 / 01 / 2026 3.00 pm
Concept
Thread-making becomes a metaphor for encounter. A single fiber cannot form a thread alone; twisting requires relation, friction, and difference. Same-fiber, doubleply, or mixed-material twists reflect the varied conditions under which people meet —without hierarchy or judgment.
The workshop introduces natural fibers traditionally used on Taiwan’s east coast— such as paper mulberry, shell ginger, screw pine, and ramie—and co-twists them with materials gathered locally in Kochi. Through tactile engagement, participants experience material difference as a form of dialogue.
Process
- Introduction to natural plant fibers from eastern Taiwan
- Co-twisting Taiwan fibers with locally collected materials
- Creation of a collective installation work as part of the residency outcome
The workshops are supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, C.Rockefeller Center and Netzwerk Medien Kunst.