Taiwanese artist Yu-Chen Wang has been invited to present her work at The New Observatory, a Liverpool-based exhibition that will run from 22 June to 1 October 2017. Held at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), the exhibition will bring together an international group of artists whose work explores new means of measuring, predicting, and sensing the world through data, imagination, and observation.
Yu-Chen Wang will present her new commission, titled ‘I Wish to Communicate with You’ at the exhibition. Her project comprises a large-scale drawing that maps the different sites and technologies that relate to the Old Liverpool and Bidston observatories and their legacies today, including the National Oceanographic Centre of the University of Liverpool.
Alongside this work, Wang will install flags depicting designs reworking traditional semaphore iconography for the 21st century in both FACT and atop Bidston Lighthouse and Observatory. Wang, who is the only artist from East-Asia to participate, will also be on a residency in Liverpool for two months during the exhibition, where she will develop an accompanying film project and deliver observational drawing workshops at FACT.
The New Observatory will be launched in a collaboration between Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK, the Open Data Institute (ODI), and FACT.
