In 2019 my friend X and I were Invited to contribute to a publication about friendship. To start, we decided to talk about it as a concept as well as our specific experience on the phone. A few months later, X sent me an edited recording of that conversation, to which I listened and listened. And it was only after about 15 times that I found myself starting to hear what he said and meant – during the happening of the conversation, I was too involved in organizing my own thoughts, too busy composing my next sentence, to truly attend to his words. Only in retrospect, and only when detached from the anxiety and excitement of a participant of a conversation, can my ears be even, submissive and absorbing. I hence realized, all conversations that happen only once are somewhat wasted.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner - writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. By constantly entering and exiting each medium, she strolls against the category of things, the labor division among people.

Yuchen was a recipient of Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, Huayu Youth Award Grand Jury Prize, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant and Lumiarts Fellowship. She has shown/performed her work at UCCA, Para Site, Taikwun Contemporary, Abrons Art Center, Assembly Room etc. She was an artist in residence at MASS MoCA, Museum of Art and Design, Textile Art Center, among others. Yuchen has written for publications including Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print, and she currently teaches through the University of the Arts, Printed Matter and Center for Book Arts.

https://changyuchen.com/