Yuchin Chen at the RIXC Fields residency, 2025. Photo: Lelde Gūtmane
We are pleased to welcome Taiwanese artist Yuchin Chen at the RIXC Fields residency! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
This year marks the first time that RIXC hosts Taiwanese artists as part of its residency programs. This initiative is part of the Subterranea project, a collaboration between Zone Sound Creative and RIXC, which will bring several Taiwanese creatives to Latvia in 2025.
During the summer period, at the RIXC Fields Residency, Yuchin Chen will be joined by Lilac Red, a Taiwanese curatorial researcher. In the autumn, the RIXC Riga Residency will welcome Mu Tuan, another Taiwanese artist, alongside French artist Rodolphe Macabeo, as well as a second curatorial researcher.
Taiwanese artists will participate in a two-month residency and field research program in RIXC Fields and RIXC Riga residency combining interdisciplinary exchange with artistic experimentation to deepen their investigations into reshaping environmental perception. At the same time, a curatorial researcher will be sent to conduct a preliminary study, mapping the development of local techno-art practices and the scientific infrastructure of RIXC. This will serve as a foundation for a curated Taiwan-focused exhibition unit next year, further broadening bilateral exchange.
We are glad to announce that Yuchin Chen and Lilac Red have now arrived at the RIXC Fields Residency.
Yuchin Chen and Lilac Red at the RIXC Fields residency, 2025. Photo: Lelde Gūtmane
Yuchin Chen is a Taiwanese multimedia artist, currently based in Berlin. Yuchin’s works deal with the senses of harmony/disharmony and association/disassociation between the time, space and self, often from the perspective of digital mediation, signal translation, and listening to explore new forms of understanding and perceiving the environment around us.
Yuchin Chen. I hear that I am limestone by the sea, 2025.
“I hear that I am limestone by the sea” is an artistic research project that explores the boundaries of senses, materiality, and time through the study of limestone situated between ocean and land. Shaped over millennia by geological transformations, high temperatures, immense pressure, and the accumulation of biological remnants, limestone can be seen as a dynamic archive—one that stores and carries environmental data, including tectonic shifts, ecological changes, and geological and biological processes across oceanic and planetary scales, along with information yet to be deciphered. These archives are not closed or static but porous, permeable, and open, constantly exchanging with their surroundings. Through interactions with living organisms, water currents, waves, erosion, and renewal, limestone perpetually reinterprets its environment, forming a fluid epistemic field. The artwork engages with the materiality, structure, and composition of limestone, employing processes of deconstruction and casting to translate its internal, porous archive spaces into sculptural and sonic objects. By centering tactile perception and listening, the project experiments with and proposes an alternative mode of geological sensing.
The residency partner Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan) is a creative agency that bridges art, technology, and diverse communities by fostering innovation, collaboration, and accessibility in media art. Founded in 2017 by artist Po-Hao Chi, the studio integrates generative and interactive systems to develop projects that empower creative expression, promote inclusivity, and reduce barriers to artistic participation. Through exhibitions, public installations, workshops, and performances, Zone Sound Creative creates opportunities for dialogue and co-creation across cultural and technological landscapes.
The RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Programme is supported by:
the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the Riga City Council.
The residencies of Taiwanese artists and researchers are supported by:
the Sonic Sensory Lab, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government and the Ministry of Culture Taiwan.
Residency partner: Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
