Tianzhuo Chen
Tianzhuo Chen, a.k.a Asian Dope Boys, has never known how to define himself. As an artist who engages with various ‘happenings’ of liminality, he enjoys crashing, merging, infusing, mutating, teasing, substituting, and playing with boundaries. More accurately, he (re-)invents boundaries and then destroys them. Trained as a swimmer, Chen is drawn to the undercurrents of existence and the benthic fables of life and death, often finding himself adrift in the tectonic wonders of unknown lands. To explore such tantric knowledge and the obscure wisdom of the unknown, he observes, draws, collects, crafts, installs, edits, interweaves, creates, mixes and remixes, all in an attempt to sense, capture, and share the fleeting beauty of life, which is nothing less than magic and ecstasy. Chen’s recent theatre pieces and performances include Trance (2024), Ksana (2019), An Atypical Brain Damage (2018), and Ishvara (2017), and his work has been presented in the following solo exhibitions: Ocean Cage (2024), Illuminated Spirits (2023), The Dust (2021), The Shepherd (2021), Trance (2019), GHOST (2017), Ishvara (2016), and Tianzhuo Chen (2015).
