Shadow Puppeteer: Jam Wu Solo Exhibition

The artist’s notes during rehearsals of these works are as follows:

Shadow Puppeteer: The twilight of a mystic

Cave Digger: Before a new kind of despair comes in a renewed form

Nomad: Futuristic ruins, synchronously logging out

Soul Harbinger: In harmony with the mundane

Alter Ego and I in the Eyes of Others: Hence a visceral depression

Grandmother: Just like that, the scene was switched

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Wallwalker: The others involved in the others

Puppeteer: Sea of chaos, coming with empty hands

Vagabond: I freshen up, I unfold

Aphasic: Crevice, backlight, and wall of authority

Angel of Suffering: Reality and imagery perplexingly entwined

The Stateless: A sentient spirit that has been extracted

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Pattern Cutter: I once gently touched the warm sand
Well Digger: Deep into the woods linger the haunting shadows
Sound Mimicker: God’s Meta Eye
Ferryman: An inverted sentence made of imagery
Draftsman: The inevitable fusion of voiceprints and hoofbeats
Snow Shoveler: If dreams are the reassembly of memories

About the Performers:

Wei Cheng - Shadow Puppeteer

Wei Cheng graduated from the School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts. A dance teacher and a freelance performer, she is petite with explosive energy, blending multiple disciplines, while evoking the viewer’s emotion with her precision of movement.

She has been in Leigh Warren’s Esprit de Corps and Of Any If And, Bryan Arias’ The Sky Seen from the Moon, Renaissance of Its Ashes by Meiimage Dance, The Wind Rises by WCdance, and Eat History by Dashing Theater. In 2022, Cheng created her first solo performance 1997 Cheng Ya Wen.

Wei-Han Li - Shadow Puppeteer

Wei-Han Li studied at the School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts. He was a dancer in WCdance and Cloud Gate. Known for his grace and agility, he is focused on the essence of performance and the underlying philosophical intention. He is engaged in different creative fields as an independent performer.

He has been in Lunar Halo by Cloud Gate, Dimensions Variable by Ming-Cheng Lee in NEXT: Taishin Arts Award 20^th Anniversary Exhibition, Current/y by Yi Chen x Hsiao-Tsi Tian, as well as Freesteps — Sunlight, Trajectory, Figures by Wei-Chia Su.

Chien-Yao Liao - Under Sunlight

A freelance performer, Chien-Yao Liao graduated from the School of Dance, Taipei National University of the Arts. With a fondness for improvisation, he finds grace and power across diverse styles in cross-disciplinary performance.

He has been in The Landless Events by Ghost Mountain Ghost Shovel; Formless Erosion by Hung Dance; Unintentional by George Liang of Dance Shoe; Monster by Po-Hsiang Chuang, Art Makers Project of Cloud Gate Foundation; Anonymous by Ming-Long Yang of Focus Dance Company; Unfold Unpaid by Chen-Wei Lee. His independent choreography projects include Self-Awareness, Unknown Creation, and It is not true. He received a gold medal for the 2021 Korea International Contemporary Dance Competition.

Sunteck Yao - Under Sunlight

Sunteck Yao graduated from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan; and Department of Theater Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France. He received training of corporeal mime founded by Étienne Decroux at centers such as Hippocampe and L’Atelier de Belleville.

In 2011, he embarked on a Journey of Mime in rural China on a grant from the Wanderer project of Cloud Gate Foundation. He founded L'Enfant S. Physical Theatre in 2012, through which he brings mime performance to the rural parts of Taiwan. In recent years, he has been devoted to children and youth welfare and education. He has produced and created projects, such as Children, Flesh and Blood, and The Museum.

Mei-Hua Hsueh - Under Sunlight

Mei-Hua Hsueh graduated from National Taiwan College of Performing Arts and National Taiwan University of Arts. A seasoned puppeteer, puppetry director, and theater teacher, she has extensive experience in directing, having directed over 30 productions. She has participated in over 20 international art festivals. She studied wayang kulit, or traditional Indonesian puppet-shadow play, and wayang golek, or rod puppetry, at STSI Art School in Surakarta, Indonesia on a grant from the Wanderer project of Cloud Gate Foundation.