2025 NTCAM Residency | Open Studio
The “NTCAM Residency” Open Studio marks the launch of the New Taipei City Art Museum’s new research and exchange program.
For the 2025 edition, following nominations by both local and international juries, the museum invited Taiwanese artist Chen Ting-jung and French-Moroccan artist Sara Ouhaddou. Their practices take the region as a foundation for creative inquiry, drawing upon New Taipei City’s heterogeneous industries, natural landscapes, and grassroots agency to present research outcomes that resonate with contemporary social dynamics while embracing both local and global perspectives.
Chen Ting-jung extends the films of Lin Tuan-chiu through sound, using the social realism and political metaphors embedded in cinematic narratives to probe the interwoven relationships among labor, sound, and entertainment. In contrast, Ouhaddou’s research engages ceramics, glass, and textiles as mediums. Working in collaboration with artisans and local communities, she reflects on the fading aura of traditional crafts confronted by processes of commodification and tourism.
Through this Open Studio, audiences are invited to encounter the artists’ working processes and gain deeper insights into the historical layers and international interconnections embedded within the local context.
2025 NTCAM Residency | Open Studio
2025/10/4、10/5（六、日），14:00-18:00
NTCAM - Create Site
2025 NTCAM Residency | Open Studio
2025/10/4、10/5（六、日），14:00-18:00
NTCAM - Create Site
2025 NTCAM Residency | Artist Talk & Sharing
Artists: Chen Ting-jung, Sara Ouhaddou
Date: 4 October 2025, Saturday
Time: 14:30–15:00
Venue: Creative Site S5
Admission: Free
2025 NTCAM Residency | Public Event: Dubbing the Nation
Artist: Chen Ting-jung
Date: October 5, 2025
Time: 14:30-16:00
Venue: The Wonder Base L4
The event is conducted in English. Free Admission
Dubbing the Nation
In her practice, Chen Ting-jung often investigates the relationships between sound, power, memory, and collective identity, using multimedia installations to explore the intersections of political language and sensory experience.
In this public event, she invites participants into an intimate “Listening Time.” Revisiting the instrumentalization of sound in her practice, she will remix and re-present elements from her previous works, including the “forbidden songs” and the “purifying songs.”
For the first time, she will collaborate with a voice actor in a live performance. Centered on the human voice, the performance takes as its backbone the film scripts of director Lin Tuan-chiu from the 1950s–60s, unfolding a historical trajectory from Japanese colonialism, the Mandarin-only policy, to Cold War propaganda of the “Free World.” Beginning with post-dubbing of film dialogues, Chen constructs layered sound structures—synchronized and unsynchronized—splicing multiple every day and spatial contexts. Through this, she examines how the instrumentalization of language was disciplined, censored, reproduced, and manipulated under the entwined forces of political authority and cultural Cold War.
Through the interplay of live dubbing and playback technology, the human voice emerges both as a bodily utterance and as a mechanical echo. The audience is invited to listen not only with their ears but also with their bodies, navigating between the synchronized orders and dislocated delays of multichannel sound. In this space, language fractures and reconfigures—from political propaganda to personal sentiment—revealing sound as both an instrument of power and a site of poetic rupture.
2025 NTCAM Residency | Artists info
CHEN Ting-jung（陳庭榕）
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CHEN Ting-jung lives and works between Berlin, Vienna, and Taipei.
She holds an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, a BFA from HFBK Hamburg, and a BA in Philosophy from National Taiwan University.
Her performative installations interweave sound, spatial perception, movement, language, and archives to examine the entanglement of cultural and political semiotics. Chen focuses on sound as both intimate and political—capable of evoking belonging while being instrumentalized by power. Through historical references, interviews, and field recordings, she reflects on how collective memory is constructed and identities transformed.
Chen has received major awards including the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2024), the City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts (2022), the MAK-Schindler Scholarship (2019), and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize (2018). She has participated in residencies at NTCAM, Cité internationale des arts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, MAK Center Los Angeles, and Koganecho Bazaar. Her solo exhibitions include DAAD Galerie (Berlin), TFAM (Taipei), and Kunsthalle Wien. Her works are held in the collections of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and Wien Museum.
Artistic Project
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Chen Ting-jung’s practice explores how listening to sound shapes memory, consciousness, and identity, while its affective tonalities are mobilized by systems of power.
At the New Taipei City Art Museum, her residency theme "Labor—Sound—Entertainment" examines how sound embodies both emotional and bodily labor, while questioning the histories and present conditions of “instrumentalized sound.” New Taipei’s industrial development reveals a tension between discipline and comfort: the commands and rhythms of factories imposed bodily synchronization, while entertainment industries offered voices of consolation and intimacy. Yet these sounds, as emotional labor, also carried the imprint of power and capital, exposing “freedom” as both rhetoric and possibility.
Chen will study Lin Tuan-chiu’s 1950s–60s films and adopt “post-dubbing” and “imitation” as methods, linking primal vocal mimicry to contemporary strategies of seduction and control. Her residency culminates in a performance with a voice actor, where live and delayed voices, synchronization and dis-synchronization, expose fractures between politics, propaganda, and private emotions, inviting audiences to experience the complexities of freedom and intimacy within a multi-channel sonic environment.
Sara OUHADDOU
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Sara Ouhaddou is an artist living and working between Morocco and France. She’s born in France in a Moroccan family and this dual culture informs her practice as a continuous dialogue. She strikes a balance between traditional art forms and the conventions of contemporary art, aiming to place artistic creation’s forgotten cultural continuities into new perspectives. She works in situ, producing works based on encounters with communities, craftsmen and researchers, while exploring heritage sites and objects. Each of her works is a project of learning, exchange of knowledge and intimate or universal stories.
Artistic Project
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Sara’s long-term artistic practice will extend to Yingge, a region celebrated for its ceramic traditions and historical legacy. Her work consistently unfolds through deep engagement with artisans and their communities, reflecting on how traditional crafts—often reduced to forms of labor by the demands of tourism—carry within them a profound yet overlooked philosophical dimension. From these encounters, she has cultivated collaborative methodologies that resist such systemic imbalances and open new possibilities of exchange.
Over the past decade, she has collaborated with Moroccan artisans in ceramics, embroidery, and weaving, gradually expanding her scope to include Japanese ceramics and embroidery, Italian woodcarving, and French glassblowing. In these encounters, she observed striking affinities between the symbolic languages embedded in Japanese techniques and those of Moroccan traditions. This recognition has shaped her inquiry into how geographically distant regions such as Asia and North Africa, through dialogue and collaboration with local communities, illuminate the complex trajectories of craft across history and the enduring qualities that underpin human creativity.
2025「新美駐地」｜開放工作室
2025 NTCAM Residency | Open Studio
｜Artist｜CHEN Ting-jung（陳庭榕）、Sara OUHADDOU
｜Supervisor｜ Ministry of Culture, New Taipei City Government
｜Organizer｜New Taipei City Art Museum
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2025 NTCAM Residency | Public Event: Dubbing the Nation
｜Artist｜CHEN Ting-jung（陳庭榕）
｜Voice Artist｜ LI Han-fei（李涵菲）, FENG You-wei（馮友薇）
｜Supervisor｜ Ministry of Culture, New Taipei City Government
｜Organizer｜New Taipei City Art Museum
｜System Sponsor｜Falconry Technology L.T.D.