Ling-lin Ku, Taiwan / United States
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Ling-lin Ku’s studio is a playground and an alchemy of the world where she plays in-between the digital data and tangible materials through digital fabrication. She uses most local references including food, body parts, and products, yet through proximity, scale, texture, display structures, and material, Ling-lin upends our relationship to the known. The work slip in and out of categorization, creating a new way in which we come to understand objecthood.
Ling-lin has been exhibited her work in cities ranging from Salzburg (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), New York, to Austin and Los Angeles, and selected into residencies including International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, Summer Academy in at Salzburg, Austria, Haystack Open Studio Residency, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation at New Mexico, and 18th Street Art Center at Los Angeles, CA. Ling-lin is the recipient of Seebacher Prize in Fine Arts awarded by American Austrian Foundation and the winner of Umlauf Extended Prize and Houston Artadia Fellow. She is awarded the Honorable Mention of Innovative Award by International Sculpture Center. |
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Ling-lin received her MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. In 2022 she joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University where she is an assistant professor at the school of art.
L'AiR Arts Residency at Atelier 11
December, 2022
Open Studio & Exhibition - December 15
During her residency, Ling-lin will present a multimedia project Gargoyles collaborated with R. Eric McMaster, together creating a tangible, almost toy-like in size, architectural elements stemming from reimagined workings of a city’s innerwards.
This exhibition will focus on the connection between decorative myths and the utile purpose of city installation system. Using Gargoyles as a metaphorical structure for the starting point, Ku and McMaster fuse hybridized architectural forms, experiences of natural disaster, and traditional and digital processes into the pieces that reflect on their collaborative character and slapstick humor. Gargoyle, the monstrous mason work first seen in medieval time, was used for dividing rain water on the architecture to minimize the damage from rainstorms. The function echoes its original meaning “gullet,” or “protruding gutter,” yet became more decorative when modern architecture techniques were invented. When constructed only for decoration purposes, the gargoyles are believed to frighten off and protect those that are guarded from any evil spirit.
Ling-lin will continue to research on this ongoing, long committed interdisciplinary project, exploring the intersection between architecture, sculpture, mythology, infrastructure and natural disaster through visiting the historical sites and museums in Paris.
L'AiR Arts Residency at Atelier 11
December, 2022
Open Studio & Exhibition - December 15
During her residency, Ling-lin will present a multimedia project Gargoyles collaborated with R. Eric McMaster, together creating a tangible, almost toy-like in size, architectural elements stemming from reimagined workings of a city’s innerwards.
This exhibition will focus on the connection between decorative myths and the utile purpose of city installation system. Using Gargoyles as a metaphorical structure for the starting point, Ku and McMaster fuse hybridized architectural forms, experiences of natural disaster, and traditional and digital processes into the pieces that reflect on their collaborative character and slapstick humor. Gargoyle, the monstrous mason work first seen in medieval time, was used for dividing rain water on the architecture to minimize the damage from rainstorms. The function echoes its original meaning “gullet,” or “protruding gutter,” yet became more decorative when modern architecture techniques were invented. When constructed only for decoration purposes, the gargoyles are believed to frighten off and protect those that are guarded from any evil spirit.
Ling-lin will continue to research on this ongoing, long committed interdisciplinary project, exploring the intersection between architecture, sculpture, mythology, infrastructure and natural disaster through visiting the historical sites and museums in Paris.