Iris Chun-Tzu Chang 張君慈

Introduction

Iris Chun-Tzu Chang graduated from National Cheng Kung University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and Auxiliary Architecture, and has an M.F.A. in Sound Art from the University of the Arts, London. Her works include paintings, poems, installations, field recordings, and improvisations, exploring the physical perception and flow of consciousness between the audible and inaudible in space. Her work has been exhibited both domestically and internationally at venues such as the Hundred Years Gallery in London, IKLECTIK, Tokyo Designers Week, Children's Museum of Taoyuan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Weiwuying National Center for Arts and Culture, among others. In 2020, her work “moon tide lullaby: fragility of sonic memory” was awarded first prize in the new media category of the Nan Ying Award. In 2023, her work “Listen Like A Stone” was selected as a finalist in the Best Imagined Sound category of the Sound of the Year Awards 2022. Currently, she is working on the cross-species listening and imagined sound research project “What if I had ___ ears? What is it like to be_?” and is also a facilitator for the cross-species listening and imaginary sound research project “What is it like to be_?” Personal Website: https://irischuntzuchang.com/

Resident planning

I completed the second installment of the Moon Tide series, moon tide lullaby: cell, in 2022. After composing three separate and intertwined stories in the bodies of three characters: a human, a Pacific Oyster, and a coral, the stories were broken up into lines and lines and buried them in the ice. The intent was that starting from the day of the full moon, each day five ice spheres (cells) would generate a short story for 28 days until the next full moon. These short stories form the prototype of moon tide lullaby: cell stories. When the cell stories were exhibited at the Taitung Museum of Fine Arts in 2022, they were put in dialogue with the sands of Miramar Bay. In 2023, Chang aspires “to make these cell stories heard again, to become a part of someone else's body, to be read by someone else's ear.” During this residency, she plans to complete the creation and publication of moon tide lullaby: cell stories.