C'est Vrai et Vert
(2017)
Concept & performance:River Lin
10, November, 2017
ArtTrend International Performance Art Festival, Tainan, Taiwan. Curated by Zu-chi Yeah
photo by Jian Hao-Jiang
Duck Walk
(2017)
Concept & performance : River Lin
drawing on paper, 2m x 6m
4 March, 2017 at Draw to Perform Festival , Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
photo courtesy: Draw to Perform
Duck Walk, followed by the principle of River Walk (2014), is a performance-based drawing/painting in choreographic process during which the artist is dancing with a toy duck.
With a sensor of vibration inside its body, the yellow toy duck is activated to walk by sensing the artist moving and traveling. On a large piece of paper, a human body walking/ dancing with a toy duck has become a deut and all their movement and trajectory have been documented by pigments.
With a sensor of vibration inside its body, the yellow toy duck is activated to walk by sensing the artist moving and traveling. On a large piece of paper, a human body walking/ dancing with a toy duck has become a deut and all their movement and trajectory have been documented by pigments.
Refreshing drinks
(2016)
Concept & performance : River Lin
at Festival Passage Pas Sage, Paris, 2016.
photo by Yann Plantier
Refreshing Drinks is a performance made for a gallery-community festival Passage Pas Sage 2016 in Paris, welcoming art lovers back in town after their summer vacation.
In this performance, River Lin cleans the passage, courtyard, and the windows and facades of galleries, and makes a refreshing drink with dust and dirt contained in a vacuum cleaner.
An Anonymous Mo(ve)ment
(2015)
Concept & performance : River Lin
at Galerie SATOR, Paris, 2015.
Conceived by River Lin, An Anonymous Mo(ve)ment is a performance piece made in conversation with Alexeï Vassiliev’s solo show ’Hieronymus’ at Galerie Sator in Paris.
In the blurry and anonymous portraits created by Vassiliev, the spatiotemporal has become in motion and fluid, so does the the presence of human body in the modern city.
This performance An Anonymous Mo(ve)ment juxtaposes the body movement with everyday objects which perform the notion of real time with different rhythms, as a contrast to Vassiliev’s photographic language.
photo by Gaspard Noel.
videography by Chien-chiao Liao
La Vague Privée
(2015)
Concept & performance : River Lin
live sound design: Jin-yao Lin
Gallery Christian Berst Art Brut, May 2015
Inspired by the work of August Walla, the performance The Private Wave conceives a journey where the artist’s body and sound encounter Walla’s inner universe.
While approaching the notion of Walla, River Lin develops dancing movements as the physical language corresponding to Walla’s own imaginary language. Hidden in a sheet of plastic fabric, River moves his body and travels around the gallery space, making sounds of drawing breath as the mysterious text. Meanwhile, the plastic fabric has become a live performative installation by addressing the image of flowing wave as the ritualistic symbol.
photography by Gaspard Noel, Valeria Motta videography by Chien-chiao Liao
Necessary Evil
(2015)
concept & performance : River Lin
Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, March 2015
photo by Chen Rohuan
The artist first arrived in Paris for the residency program at Cité internationale des Arts in February of 2015 when this city had just experienced the Charlie Hebdo attack. Because the Memorial de la Shoah is next door, policemen and army with weapons intensively guard around. The city center Le Marais was considered terrifying in unrest.
With this circumstance, River Lin hosts a ritual of walking from Cite to Shoah in the street by carrying an altar with burning candles and self blindfolding with hands until the altar falls in front of the signboard of Memorial de la Shoah.
With this circumstance, River Lin hosts a ritual of walking from Cite to Shoah in the street by carrying an altar with burning candles and self blindfolding with hands until the altar falls in front of the signboard of Memorial de la Shoah.