We are pleased to invite you to the Echoes in Calligraphy artist talk and a workshop by Lu Wei & Tuan Mu taking place on Sunday, October 19, 2025.
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
Time:
Artist Talk: 5:00–6:00 PM (Free)
Workshop: 6:00–7:00 PM (Fee: 3000 AMD)
You’re welcome to join us for both sessions or simply attend the part that interests you most.
Background
Writing, whether accumulated from bodily experience or generated by artificial intelligence, can no longer convey truth or knowledge. Rather, both approaches reveal the hidden relations underlying writing, the body, and the mind. This workshop explored the creative process in response to the calligraphy. Exploring creativity through writing and related texts and referring to the artist’s role through a multicultural lens, the artist shared creative techniques in calligraphy and ink painting.
What to Expect
Artist Talk
Artists Lu Wei and Tuan Mu will take turns sharing their creative journeys and the concept behind the exhibition (40 mins)
Q&A session (20 mins)
Workshop
Overview of calligraphy history, notable works, techniques, and artistic concepts (10 mins)
Introduction to calligraphy tools: brushes and paper (10 mins)
Live demonstration (10 mins)
Hands-on practice (20 mins)
Group discussion and photo (10 mins)
Artists’ bio
Lu Wei (Taiwan, b.1994) is a visual artist and curator based in Taipei. She received both her BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts. Her practice encompasses ink painting, installations, artist’s books, handscrolls, and folding screens. Drawing on religious, literary, and mythological figures as well as archetypes of motherhood, her works explore symbols of women across cultures to reflect on her own experiences as a woman and mother. While rooted in the traditions of ink painting, her work incorporates feminist thought and gender issues, seeking to reinterpret and expand understandings of gendered bodies and their images within the history of ink.
She has participated in residencies and projects internationally, including Grey Projects (Singapore, 2023) in partnership with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, supported by the Asia Pacific Exchange Program and Taipei Artist Village; 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles, 2023) with support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture; and a curatorial residency in Utah (2024) funded by Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation. Her solo exhibition My Sole Desires (2024) was presented at Material (Salt Lake City, UT), and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquired two of her works for its permanent collection. The Taiwanese American Foundation also collected several of her paintings. In 2025, with support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture and National Culture and Arts Foundation, she became the first Taiwanese artist to present dual solo exhibitions at Material and Ogden Contemporary Arts in the United States. These shows received major sponsorship from institutions such as the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, and were featured in Southwest Contemporary.
Her group exhibitions include the Center of International Contemporary Art (Vancouver, 2025), Yavuz (Singapore, 2025), ER Gallery (Taipei, 2024), Absolute Space for the Arts (Tainan, 2023), OUR Museum (New Taipei City, 2022), Silpakorn University (Bangkok, 2022), Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2022), Soka Art (Tainan, 2021), Mezzo Art (Tainan, 2021), Taipei Artist Village (2020), and AKI Gallery (Taipei, 2020). As a curator, Lu Wei has organized exhibitions at Taitung Art Museum (2023, nominated for the 22nd Taishin Art Award), MOCA Taipei (recipient of the NCAF Curator’s Incubator Program grant), and Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-Lab) for the Taiwan Annual (2023).
Tuan Mu (Taiwan, b.1994) is an artist and independent curator based in Taipei. He graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with a major in Ink Painting. His work explores how new media can reinterpret the worldview of traditional Asian culture, adopting a poetic approach to human perception and thought in the age of technology. His practice draws on Buddhist and Taoist philosophies, East Asian animism, and mythological tales, combining artificial intelligence, virtual reality, animation, sound performance, ink painting, and calligraphy to create transdisciplinary narrative structures that engage viewers in dialogue.
His artworks have been presented internationally, including at Durres Biennale, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Asia Digital Art Exhibition, CutOut Fest, Miami New Media Festival, Now & After International Video Art Festival, Venice Immersive Market (Taiwan Pavilion), Festival ECRA, CineGlobe Film Festival, CYFEST Media Art Festival, and International Digitalkunst Festival.
As a curator, Mu’s projects emphasize cross-cultural research and identity issues in contemporary contexts, often involving fieldwork with curators, artists, and local communities. His curatorial proposals have been selected for SLY Art Space’s Emerge Curator Project and the NCAF Curator’s Incubator Program, and nominated for the Taishin Art Award. Recent curatorial projects include Home: Foundation, Wall Cancer, Skin, and Shelter (Taitung Art Museum, 2023), Humus (MOCA Taipei, 2023), and Beyond Interfaces—Taiwanese Video Program (Mirzoyan Library, Armenia, 2024).
Mirrors
Lu Wei
3-channel video installation, HD, Color, Stereo, 11’15”, 2025
Calligrapedia: A Universal Algorithm
Tuan Mu
Calligraphy Script, Machine Learning, Multi-Channel Video, Live Sound Performance, Inkjet Print (30x30cm, each piece)
