Intersension(al)

(1990, CN)

Graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in China, Chuan has a professional experience as an interior and furniture designer that spans 7 years. Mastering the spatial design skills and the usage of various materials, she decides to continue her master study in Khio, with a focus on exploring the emotional link among human, materials and spaces.

Chuan, also owns the meaning of river in Chinese, the flow that is permanently changing and moving. She believes in the flowing in the creative process. With a growing design philosophy, her interest is not to construct an enclosed system that works on different occasions. Instead, efforts are made to explore a specific emotional connection between a space/place and a person/people. She seeks for the diversity and the specificity in her design process.

For her, a designer gains his/her own creativeness from memories, childhood, dreams and daily life. The subtleness of feelings and emotions reveal the true beauty of humanity. And her works aim at creating a space that echoes with the sensibility of human.

1993, CN ,After graduating from the Guangzhou Academy of Arts, he spent almost two years in the advertising industry as an art director. He had a great time with all the vibrancy and whimsicality we brought to society. Although, he still wanted to explore the potential in design practices, which was concealed behind the permeated anxiety. Taking the graduate study in KMD, Bergen, He was satisfied the versatile approach and the comprehensive methodology he has learned and developed. With the supports and inputs from this amazing community, he considers developing Digital Leak Excavation an incredible experience.

(1994, TW) He is a visual artist working across photography, text, sound, and site-specific installation/cleaning. Memory is the source of his knowledge, the vehicle in which he approaches the correlation between body, family, pictorial experience, object, and space. He reconfigures the unseen, the spaces that are difficult to clean, exploring scenarios where the paradoxes of intimacy, identity insecurity, estrangement, and the latent violence of patriarchal structure are absurdly captured, exposed, and cleaned.

(1994, CN) He often describes his works as being about encounters of bodies, especially those that seem random and without impact at the moment but have the potential to change the trajectory of the lives of both parties. His practice engages with issues including gender temperament, homosexual desire, the abject, in-betweenness, identification, and differentiation, as they are deeply connected to his personal life. He works interdisciplinarily with painting, text, object, sculpture, and performance. His inspirations come from diverse sources. Literature and philosophy play an important role, for example: the Deleuzian theory of affect, the twin concepts of studium and punctum from Roland Barthes, and the poetic logic of Andrei Tarkovsky. However, his practice is not solely based on theories. Some works originate from stories, anecdotes, or personal experiences. For instance, his work We Don't Want to Treat You as a Piece of Exotic Fruit, but You Need to Work Harder (2021) grew directly from a personal experience during a graduation assessment, when an examiner made that exact comment.

(1995, TW) She works with painting, photography and textile. By reenacting specific moments in daily life and from memory, as well as conducting a series of actions that are designed to be simple, repetitive, and habitual, she explores the possibilities of documenting and perceiving time. Her works magnifies the blank moments in the mundane, where subtle changes become the evidence, and where time becomes abstract, stretchable, and fluid. Joanna holds a MFA in Medium and Material Based Art from Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (2020) and a BFA in Fine Arts from National Taiwan Normal University (2018).

(1995, CN) Artist based in Oslo, Norway. Mingxuan examines personal myth through creating sculptures and installations that emphasize the reciprocal experience between the somatic and the object. These explorations stem from memory, dream, and collective unconscious.

(1990, HK) She spent most of her childhood balancing between western and eastern culture as she was born and raised in Hong Kong - a place that represents a mixture of the east and the west. In addition to studying western art at school, she grew up learning Chinese paintings and calligraphy, therefore, she developed an inquisitive mind in understanding Chinese character structure and font pattern. Her experience of transforming Chinese character to spatial experience is one of the continuous transits: emotionally, physically, and culturally, between the east and the west. Now she is practising as an architect in Oslo, at the same time finding the artistic and ambiguous relationship between Chinese character structure and architecture space.

( 1993,TW ) She is a Taiwanese artist and goldsmith based in Norway. Through craft she examines the degradation of the emotional connection and our sense of belonging, which often felt in contemporary life. In recent work, she merges craft and relational art, aiming to reduce these disconnections.

(1995, JP) He is a Japanese artist based in Norway. Being born in Japan and having had the opportunity to travel and live in multiple countries such as Norway, USA, UAE, China, and Japan, he sees himself as an earthling and a vagabond. He questions artistic possibilities through his perspectives cultivated from culturally disparate influences. The materiality of clay has been crucial to exploit his unconventional growth as a Japanese situating in foreign lands.