ABOUT
"We are always participating in something larger than ourselves, and if we want to understand social life and what happens to people in it, we have to understand what it is that we’re participating in and how we participate in it."
- Allan G. Johnson, The Forest and the Trees
Fang-Yi, Yang（Fay）
Education/
Master of Arts Management, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Department of Commercial Design, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
YANG Fang-yi is a native of Miaoli, Taiwan with a master’s degree in arts management from Anglia Ruskin University. Her dual Minnan and Hakka lineage fuels her passion in researching interdisciplinary roles and behaviour. Through heterogeneous weaving and regenerative creation, she wants to give new meanings to the ideas of waste and obsolescence against this backdrop of paradoxical modernity.
While working as an artist and educator, Yang is also the founder of “Give to Gift” and “NO!W Across Lab” and an active campaigner for zero waste. With these art projects, Yang wants to find the subtle balance between self-positioning and collective co-creation in response to the increasing community influence and overwhelming environmental change.
Art in Residence/
Tourism Commission & HULU Culture, Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival──en’ den’．Blue Ring Sling, Sai Kung, Hong Kong, 2021
National Hsinchu Living Arts Center, Art Guerrilla──the island exchange project, Matsu, Taiwan, 2019
Taipei City Hakka Cultural Park, 2019 Hakka AIR──En Nen(We), Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Treasure hill artist village, Re-Symbiont ?!, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre & Bamboo Curtain Studio, Bangmod Fest 3──I COVER YOU!, Bangkok, Thailand, 2018
Exhibitions/
Yim Tin Tsai Arts Festival,《en’ den’．Blue Ring Sling》, Sai Kung, Hong Kong, 2021
Field Trip Project Asia in Taiwan, Life on an island──N sustainable ways of living, National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Keelung, Taiwan, 2020
Longci Light Festival, Void Mountain──Weaving Solidarity, Tainan, Taiwan, 2019
New Taipei City Wetland Art Festival, MERGE──Land Webbing, New Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Guandu International Nature Art Festival, It’s about Time──Rice Planting and River Clean-up Project —《Live Long and Prosper》 Change Bowl, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Nuit Blanche Taipei, Weaving the Plastic Souls──Dancecology x NO!W Across Lab, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Wanhua Horiechō Art Festival, Adversity reveals Blossoming──WearableArt exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Hualien City Office, Ocean is our live festival──Plastic Fossile Wall & Trash Whale Belly, Hualien, Taiwan, 2019
National Taiwan Science Education Center, Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project──The ocean is our home as well, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019
Yu-Sui-Kaku, Give to Gift──Re-grow, Yunlin, Taiwan, 2019
Matsushin Village in Chung Li, Daily Voiceprint──Colorful voice, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2018
Taoyuan Land art Festival, New Old Eternal Weave & Tie the Friendship Knot, Zhongli & Shitou Village, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2018
Bamboo Curtain Studio, Standing On the Two Sides in Plastic Time, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
Taoyuan Agriculture Expo, Banner KELP FOREST, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2018
National Taiwan Science Education Center, Classical Taiwan Banner Catering──Upcycle art, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018
Xinfu Market, Let’s GO Catering & Bando!──Banner exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, 2017
Green Ripples Festival, Music Trash Wall──Be a Sound Maker, Taichung, Taiwan, 2017
Creative Reuse Center, Plastic Together──Standing On Two Sides, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016
Creative Reuse Center, Tinkering Party, and Maker Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts, Play with Arts on the Roof, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2015
Huashan1914 Creative Park, Music＋Theater= AM Art for FUN？, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
Banciao 435 Art District, 435? Paint/Sing/Jump with ARTS, Banciao, Taiwan, 2013
Experience/
Aritst and Curator, TW Youth Zero Waste Project
Secrectary General, Beautiful Taiwan Non-Governmental Organization
Curator, Taiwan Banner Bag Project
Art Teacher and Curator, Creative Reuse Center, Lovely Taiwan Foundation
Consultant, Fantasy kids - Amusement & Theme Park
Visiting Lecturer, SHU-TE University
Educational Programmer, JUMING Museum and Foundation
Performing Art Educational Programmer and Curator, AM Creative
Public Art Project Planner, Taipei Naitonal University of the Arts
Secretary of the Board, XUE XUE INSTITUTE
Educational Programmer, Taishin Bank Doundation for Arts and Culture
Museum Educator assistance, Cambridge & County Folk Museum
Art Administrator, AKI Gallery
Designer and Art Editor, Taipei Walker KADOKAWA Taiwan