Boundaries: Tsàu-Kha

Artists: Yen-Tzu Chang × Zo Fan

Date｜2025.12.27-2026.03.01 closed on Mondays, no public admission on the days of the performances.

Opening｜2025.12.27 (SAT.) 14:30

Special Performance｜2025.12.27(SAT.) 15:10 (guests only)、16:10

2025.12.28(SUN.) 14:10、15:10

* Please collect a numbered ticket on site and queue for entry.

Venue｜U-108 SPACE

Visitor Guidelines

✽ This artwork contains visual content that may cause discomfort for some viewers. In order to respect the artistic creation, the work is presented in its original form. Viewers are advised to exercise discretion based on their own condition, and children are recommended to view with adult supervision.

1. The work is presented in scheduled sessions. Please refer to the session timetable. A maximum of 40 visitors is allowed per session.
2. During the performance, we suggest moving freely to experience the immersive work from multiple perspectives.
3. Please remove your shoes before entering and place them in the shoe cabinet.
4. The exhibition space is dimly lit; please watch your step.
5. Photography and video recording are welcome. Please do not use flash.
6. This is an immersive installation. If you experience discomfort due to sound or visual effects, please proceed at your own discretion.
7. To protect the special flooring, only manual wheelchairs are allowed. Strollers and electric wheelchairs are not permitted.

Screening Schedule

• Each session lasts approximately 30 minutes, with a maximum capacity of 40 visitors. Please line up and enter according to the designated session schedule.
• The first 8 minutes of each session are reserved for artwork interaction, during which free entry is permitted. The video duration is 17 minutes. After the interaction period ends, entry will no longer be allowed. Re-entry is not permitted once visitors leave during the session.

About the Exhibition

Boundaries: Tsàu-Kha

Boundaries: Tsàu-Kha  takes the traditional Taiwanese kitchen as its starting point to explore women’s autonomy and paradoxical circumstances within everyday spaces. The kitchen may appear to be a domain women can control, but it often exists primarily to serve others, which reflects a latent spatial power structure. Drawing on stories about the East Asian folk belief in the Kitchen God, the work reimagines the traditionally male deity as a female figure, symbolizing the mother’s dual identity as both guardian and overseer within the family, and portrays the complexly entwining deep affections and constraints in mother-daughter relationships. Through the traditional space of the “tsàu-kha” (“kitchen” in Taiwanese), it connects audiences’ emotions and cultural experiences, uncovering new perspectives within this familiar space and prompting a re-examination of family and self.

This is a transnational collaborative interactive new media artwork co-created by Taiwanese artist Yen-Tzu Chang and Singaporean artist Zo Fan. A site-specific work designed for U-108 SPACE, this immersive surround installation creates an experience of “boundaries” where sound crosses the space from afar to near, while texts drift and flow within. Musical theater performer Janis Wang takes the audiences into the love and tension between mother and daughter through lyric composition and singing. Technologically, the work integrates AI generated images, real-time text recognition, and a surround sound system. Through writing, the audiences take part in the creative process. Family memories that are difficult to talk about, observations of mothers, or the struggles of motherhood are recognized by the AI system, with the writings then matched with corresponding images and sounds from a database. Each iteration of the performance is unique because of the writings contributed by different audiences, transforming the work into a fluid narrative that explores how women redefine their spiritual domains within constraints.

Artists

Yen Tzu Chang

Yen-Tzu Chang is a new media art theater director, artist, and sound artist based in Taiwan, whose practice integrates art, programming, and diverse media technologies. Her work has been featured at international conferences and art and music festivals. She debuted her new media dance performance, The Mirage Replicas 2.0, at the opening of Ars Electronica Festival 2023 and has also exhibited/performed at roBOt 08 Festival, Linux Audio Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Digital Design Weekend in London, Most Wanted: Music in Berlin, etc.

In recent years, Chang has been selected as a resident artist by various renowned organizations in Taiwan and abroad, including Hangar in Barcelona, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Australia, and Arts@ITRI at the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan.

Zo Fan

Zo Fan is a Singaporean Hakka director and multimedia artist currently based in Paris. 
Drawing from classical music, cinema, and photography, she has forged the multidisciplinary endeavor “#OwnYourRoots”, a visual experimentation that translates ancestral wisdom into a futuristic language. As a contemporary cultural alchemist, her art practice is rooted in Singapore’s multicultural landscape and the electrifying heritage of Paris. Her work has garnered recognition from international organizations, including VOGUE Italia, South Korea's media powerhouse CJ Entertainment, the European Capitals of Culture, and the Singapore National Olympic Council. 

Her first solo exhibition in France opened during the European Heritage Days (Journées de Patrimoines) and ran for ten weeks. This immersive experience of ritual-inspired installations deepened her exploration of spirituality, humanity, and future-forward heritage, culminating in a multidisciplinary meditation space with weekly collaborations from 11 practitioners across diverse art forms. Her latest short film, Demons in the Heart, which won Best Film in Art and Culture at the 2025 Jeju International AI Film Festival, was also selected for special screenings at the 66th Brno16 and London East Asian Film Festival, further establishing her presence on the international stage.

In her work, traditions cease to be static relics and instead birth a renewed perception of self through intuition, digital media, and cultural memory. Her artworks are reflections on humanity and a path of introspection, allowing light to shine on complex emotions, like a lotus emerging from water, quietly blooming in the shadows.

Production Team
Concept｜Yen-Tzu Chang, Zo Fan
Visual Creation｜Zo Fan
Sound Creation｜Yen-Tzu Chang
Executive Coordination｜Vanessa Chen 
Sound Engineering｜Chi-Ling Chen
Interactive Mechanism & Installation Planning｜Yen-Tzu Chang 
Interactive Programming & Image Engineering｜YURI Studio（Allan Yang、You-Syun Chang、Aslan Wu、Yu-Ren Chang）
Stage Manager｜Chu-Shin Cheng
Script Co-creation｜Janis Wang
Production｜Yeles Studio

Special Performance

Yen-Tzu Chang × Zo Fan × Janis Wang
Janis Wang

Janis Wang is a musical theater artist specializing in playwriting, production, performance, songwriting, and music design, and she also sings with the SEMISCON Vocal Band. She holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication from Tamkang University and is currently pursuing another Master's degree in Drama and Theater at National Taiwan University. Wang has participated in numerous theatrical and musical productions, including more recently a local adaptation of Twelve Angry Men; Taoyuan Chinese Orchestra's musical theater production, Little Peach and Taming of the Music; Grandpa by M.O.V.E. Theatre; Broken Doll the Musical at the New Taipei City Musical Festival; and she also took part in the Musical Gala Show at the Taipei Performing Arts Center. 

Other performances that Wang took part in recently include: Attack on Titan - Beyond the Walls World Tour, Disney in Concert: Frozen, Disney in Concert: Aladdin, M.O.V.E. Theatre's Gated Community and A Dog's House, and The VMTheatre Company's Reed Unbroken.
 

Special Thanks
Yen-Tzu Chang's mother, Ms. Huang 
Yen-Tzu Chang's sister-in-law, Elsa Chiang
Yen-Tzu Chang's niece, Little Miss Chang
Shinnobi Restore & Curated
Mr. Jui-Fa Tsai