畢業於臺灣大學醫學院職能治療學系、現任麻省理工學院藝術、文化與科技研究生。近年創作著重反向操作生物科技的語彙與方法探討人類作為共生體，對非人類生命體的義務與責任。曾參與策展，展覽於國立台灣美術館數位方舟與台灣福利社，作品曾獲高雄獎、全國美術獎，入圍全國美術展、台北美術獎、台北數位藝術獎，亦於澳洲 (Symbiotic A)、巴賽隆納 (hangar.org)、馬德里 (MedialabPrado) 及荷蘭 (V2 動態媒體中心) 駐村。
Rae Yuping Hsu (she/they/it) is an artist and educator from Taipei, Taiwan, currently based in New York, United States. Their practice is research-based and materially-informed, spanning across multiple disciplines and materials; from hot glass to fibroblasts, passports to fecal sports. Working with the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative, her recent works speculate on microbial ethics within interplanetary travel, reconstructed against narratives of colonization. It is currently working on a book that explores the notion of a “living archive” of contamination and incorporation. A performance of endosymbiosis in microgravity. A film on alternative cosmologies regarding the celestial and its extended voyages. It holds a Masters of Science in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT, and currently teaches at Parsons, The New School and SVA.
第一場騷動 COMMOTION I
Hi there 👋
您好 I’`m m`istre^ss kin$hi?p.
I’l! b(e yo`ur ho/st tod@y. 我今天負責當您的招待
But to be completely honest, 但為了誠實起見，我必須說，
I’m not just hosting you. 我並不單招待您 一「個」人 (kombucha breathing) 菌母 呼 吸
水熊
(pulsating) 蠕動
我是微生物的魁儡 I am a puppet of the
microbial,
我的思維是 my thoughts
encoded by
viral genes, 病毒基因編碼
my desires conditioned
by bacterial wants. 我的慾望受 細菌制約
Like the insect whose gender— benｔ
by the Wolbachia bacteria;
就如 在沃爾巴克氏菌的游說下 那隻變性的昆蟲
或者如那隻螞蟻 因冬蟲夏草
Like the ant
aimlessly 無目的 aimlessly 無助地 aimlessly 無謂地
lurching橫搖突傾 under the persuasion of the Cordycep fungi;
Or the zombie snail that climbs up
to the top of a tree,
(pulsating)
(awaiting)
the bird that consumes it. 殭屍鍋牛 待鳥喫
誰作主？ (agency) —who decides? “me” or “my microbes”?
「我」？「我體內的微生物」？兩者真的能夠區分嗎？
Can the two ever be distinct from, outside of, each other?