The kitchen is the most familiar, and yet the most complex of spaces. It carries love — and it carries constraint.
Boundaries: Tsàu-Kha is a new media work co-created by Chang Yen-Tzu and Fan Tso-Yi, presented at U-108 SPACE, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. For this project, YURI collaborated with Yeles Studio, contributing the software development — encompassing the construction of a real-time handwriting recognition system and AI image generation technology. Taking its title from the Taiwanese word tsàu-kha (灶跤, kitchen), the work weaves together new media technology and performance art to probe the space between female identity and the mother-daughter bond — where deep love and constraint coexist.
In this work, every audience member becomes a participant in the narrative — the words they write are transformed in real time by the recognition system into flowing imagery, becoming part of this collectively conjured boundary.
Before entering the exhibition, visitors respond to the artists’ prompts by writing personal reflections on kitchens, family, and memory. The real-time text-image recognition system built by YURI Studio captures these handwritten words and, combined with AI image generation, instantly translates them into visual and sonic language projected across the circular panoramic space.
Each act of writing triggers a unique image fragment. Each visitor’s presence reshapes the work anew.
Live dancers perform within the space as visitor-generated imagery unfolds in real time around them. Within the enveloping arc of the circular panoramic environment, movement, text, and projection layer into a multi-dimensional field of perception. Sound flows from far to near; images drift and shift across curved walls. The weight of dance and the warmth of written words meet here — together constructing a boundary that resists description, yet is unmistakably present.
張晏慈 Yen-Tzu Chang × 新加坡藝術家 范佐伊 Zo Fan 共創作品
於臺中國立臺灣美術館 U-108 SPACE 展出
概念主創 Concept｜張晏慈 Yen-Tzu Chang、范佐伊 Zo Fan
製作單位 Production｜電慈學機組工作室 Yeles Studio
執行統籌 Executive Coordination｜陳美璇 Vanessa Chen
影像設計 Visual Creation｜范佐伊 Zo Fan
聲音設計 Sound Creation｜張晏慈 Yen-Tzu Chang
音響工程 Sound Engineering｜陳致霖 Chi-Ling Chen
互動機制與裝置策劃 Interactive Mechanism & Installation Planning｜張晏慈 Yen-Tzu Chang
互動程式設計暨影像工程 Interactive Programming & Image Engineering｜有日互動 YURI Studio
藝術總監 Artistic Director｜楊博任 Allan Yang
技術總監 Technical Director｜吳欣怡 Aslan Wu
互動技術開發設計 Interactive Development & Design｜張祐熏 You-Syun Chang、張佑任 Yu-Ren Chang
舞台監督 Stage Manager｜程楚心 Chu-Shin Cheng
演出詞共創 Script Co-creation｜王悅甄 Janis Wang
特別演出 Special Performance｜張晏慈 Yen-Tzu Chang × 范佐伊 Zo Fan × 王悅甄 Janis Wang
動態影像紀錄 Video Documentation｜三月影像 Aquamarine Film