Her Lab Space
Her Lab Space was established by theater maker and artist Chen Yow-Ruu at Kaohsiung in 2016.
Since 2017, she collaborated with Malaysian born Taipei based artist Au Sow Yee in numerous works and projects, presented in ambiguous and hybrid forms of theatricality, performative video installation, theatre and performance.
About Au Sow Yee
Au Sow Yee was born in Kuala Lumpur, she now lives and works in Taipei. Her works integrate mixed formats of moving images, conceptual art, installation and theatrical settings, intertwining an unique sense of space/time montage. She explores and extends perception on image and image making, and its relationship with history, politics, and power. Sow Yee recent research includes resonances of post-colonialism and the Cold War as well as folklore, popular culture such as alternative film history, genre films, music and the undercurrents of historiography. Sow Yee’s works were exhibited in 2023 Sharjah Biennale, 2022 Busan Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin), Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, BACC (Bangkok) and various other exhibitions and screenings.
About Chen Yow-Ruu
Chen Yow-Ruu was born in Kaohsiung, she now lives and works in Taipei. Yow-Ruu is a theatre director, performer and artist. She received her MFA degree in Directing from the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her works often integrate the local environment, using sound, video, installation and live performances as creative tactics. Her theater directional works include Rock Rock Crafting A Streetcar Named Desire, Studio M Hedwig, 2022 Taipei Arts Festival Glory Hole. Yow-Ruu’s collaboration with Au Sow Yee were included in group exhibitions such as 2024 Singapore Art Museum Lost & Found: Embodied Archive, 2023 New Taipei City Art Museum Interweaving Travelers etc. In 2023, together with Au Sow Yee, she was invited to be the artist of residency for G7 Theater’s SYNTOPIA project in Mannheim Germany.
