Project

A Radical Nipple

Participatory Photography Project , 2018~

Pin-Wen started “A Radical Nipple” as an extending of actual practice of “Girl’s Notes” and had open call to look for volunteers. No matter which gender they are, Pin-Wen took photos of nipples only, no breast; also had short interviews after photographing. Via “A Radical Nipple”, Pin-Wen achieved a deeper understanding of how Taiwanese think about their bodies and genders.

A Radical Nipple: http://supinwen.blogspot.com/

Girl's Notes (2018) Premiere

Beginning of Pin-Wen's Feminism, a three-year project.

From contemporary feminists’ points of view, Pin-Wen adapts the book—“Girl’s Notes “ and completes production by “Single body.” Pin-Wen recalls past experience, and discusses about how contemporary females look like. The book review is not published by paper words, but by the body with book "History of Beauty" on head for whole performance.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/566430533

Girl's Notes II (2019) 18+

Second work of Pin-Wen's Feminism, a three-year project.

“Girl's Notes II" It's a blind date invitation for the audience, use the texts of "How to Arrange Date" as a reminder and gradually select one of the audience who can have a one-on-one date with Pin-Wen. Pin-Wen is questioning the gray area between Yes/No and experiment "Only Yes means Yes" via movements without language; also take it as a premise for audience participation.

Girl's Notes III (2020)

Final work of Pin-Wen's Feminism, a three-year project.

"Girl's Notes III" is the only creation based entirely on Pin-Wen's personal experience in 2020. Pin-Wen pays attention to female who have retreated from the public space to private space because of Covid-19 pandemic; Especially those who live alone. When Gender lose the eyes of the social gaze, how their bodies move and how Gender performing.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/671650197

Girl's Notes (2020)
Nuit blanche Taipei

Invited by the curator unit Fist & Cake Production to Nuit blanche(Taipei). Girl’s Notes performed in a large outdoor public space for the first time. Pin-Wen placed his female body on the skatepark, which is more often associated with masculinity. Numbers of audiences either stood or sat in the venue, which changed the previous competition rules and spatial logic of Taipei Extreme Sports Training Center(Nan-Gang) . By performed Girl’s Notes to further questioning if being an Asian woman is already an extreme exercise itself?

The performance started at 4am, it sound out the specification of public nudity performances which hosted by institution.

Girl's Rehearsal (2021)

Premiered at Taipei Arts Festival during the epidemic. Girl’s Rehearsal is a Sound Performance which Requires audience participation; in Mandarin without subtitles.

Following Pin-Wen’s nquiry in the triology of Girl’s Notes (2018), Pin-Wen examines the operation of empathy in this year’s Girl’s Rehearsal. The participants will receive a “Stay Home Package” from the artist, allowing them to rehearse Girl’s Notes from home. Guided by Pin-Wen’s voice, each participant will complete the performance with the artist together.

Girl’s Rehearsal brings attention to physical practices of the body, exploring ways of transmitting smell, touch, sense of body and spiritual company online. By reenacting Pin-Wen’s debut work on feminism, Girl’s Rehearsal looks at the display of gender, and at the core of Pin-Wen’s feminist approach.

Girl's Rehearsal be present (2021)

Pin-Wen invites users who participated in the online work "Girls Practice" at the Taipei Arts Festival in 2021 to gather at the Thinkers’ Studio for physical practice and open the discussions- such as: How to prepare a nudity performance? How to perform an individual performance in the presence of multiple people? How Pin-Wen’s approach his creation and embody by feminism?

Transgender Exercise (2022)

Transgender Exercise is a collaborative series and research-based project of Pin-Wen Su and River Lin presenting its first stage of performance process in the framework of ‘2057: Rehearsing ways of living’ for the 35th anniversary of the National Theatre of Taiwan in 2022.

How will the concepts and practices of gender and sexuality evolve in the future? Generally speaking, "neutrality" might be a compromise between femininity and masculinity. But what if neutrality is not the balance nor overlap between the two sides, but a universal corporal, social and cultural space? Then how would neutrality look like, smell like and feel like? How could it be shaped and molded? Feminist artist Pin-wen Su, together with River Lin, presents "Transgender Exercise", inviting the audience to discuss and practice a mode of thinking and living that is not feminine/masculine nor male/female.

Concept, choreography and performance: Pin-Wen Su and River Lin

Girl's Notes (2022) Live Piano

Since the premier in 2018, “Girls' Notes” has toured to We Island Dance Festival, Nuit blanche(Taipei), Camping Asia(Taipei), Dance South in Intertidal Dance Festival and Paso a 2 - Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid.

2022 was invited by the curator Chou Shu-Yi to Taiwan Dance Platform. Pin-Wen propose a double version of "Girls' Notes" with Local pianist LIN Mai-ke and performed at National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (WeiWuYing) in Playhouse. This version broke through the original concept of "Girls' Notes" as Pin-Wen’s single body, and opened a new direction of cooperation for this work.

Artist｜SU Pin-Wen

Pianist｜LIN Mai-Ke

Lighting Designer｜LIN Ping-Hsin

Trailer: https://youtu.be/IB7oKqNS8Ng

Girl's Rehearsal be present (2022)

In the second year of "Girl’s Rehearsal“ be present, Pin-Wen invited photographer to share the views of nudity- aesthetic judgment, gaze in image, body rights, internet culture…etc, which related with experience in Taiwan to discuss intention and boundaries.

"Girl’s Rehearsal“ be present in the second practice, Pin-Wen proposed: disobedience, more than one and how do you want to go. These propose allowed people to discover this work from intimacy to publicity, bring in more critical thoughts and different actions.