CHEN Chieh-jen

Born in 1960 in Taiwan, Chen Chieh-jen employed guerrilla-style art actions to challenge the dominant political mechanisms during Taiwan’s martial law period. In 2002, he started collaborating with unemployed laborers, migrant workers, foreign spouses, and social activists. They occupied factories owned by capitalists, slipped into areas cordoned off by the law to visualize obscured contemporary reality and a people’s history through his video projects in which he used re-connecting strategies.