Chen-Yi Wu 吳貞儀
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Chen-Yi Wu is a Taiwanese artist based in Philadelphia, USA. Drawing from a diverse background in literature, theater, and filmmaking, she explores the intricate interplay of different media in her storytelling. As the first generation raised in the post-Martial Law era of Taiwan, she has been exploring her identity through different lenses.
She contributed her skills as a visual designer and animator to TaKeTonBo: A Day in 1945 (竹とんぼ), a table reading performance portraying the life of an ordinary family in Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation. Her ongoing personal documentary, Uncle America, which reflects the Taiwan-U.S. relationship through diaspora family members, received support from the UnionDocs Early Production Lab in 2021. In 2023, she was honored to be a residency fellow with the Taiwanese American Arts Council for Governors Island’s Organization in Residence, to work on her text-based interactive project that tells a dystopian future in the year 2099.
Chen-Yi is also a fellow of the Netflix Documentary Archival Researcher training program. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she serves as an adjunct professor. As a screener, programmer, and writer working with several film festivals, she seeks the possibility of cross-cultural alliances as a community member, and her visionary work addresses social issues within the Asian diaspora.
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