aberrant archive 2015-2025
《記憶無歸屬》

Chen Wan-Yin and Hsu Che-Yu have been in a decade-long artistic alliance since 2015, exploring the boundaries between memory and the body through moving images, text, and technology. Hsu is known for his use of animation and video, while Chen focuses on textual narratives and audiovisual structures. Their collaborative works traverse the realms of news events, historical incidents, and personal recollections. Over the past ten years, they have developed a mode of artistic production that interweaves image-making, writing, digital replication, and narrative reenactment. Through animal remains, unnamed corpses, conjoined twins, and political dissidents, they revisit sites of trauma, fabricate forensic replicas, and simulate psychological phantoms, cataloging fragmented memories into a visible logic of aberrant order.

aberrant archive 2015-2025 is a collaborative volume that combines a visual archive and writings by the two artists. The book includes artwork documentation, manuscripts, and notes related to their works, along with essays by art critic Kao Chien-Hui, curator Paulo Miyada, and film scholar Yu Chang-Min.

Book Size: 165mm x 230 mm
Pages: 384
Taipei: dmp.editions, 2025.

A Few Exercises in Mourning

A Few Exercises in Mourning is an artist book collaboratively created by Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin, designed and edited by dmp editions. Within its pages, the visual components concentrate on three artworks that delve into themes of death, commemoration, and bodily hallucination: Blank Photograph, in which a former bomber reenacts the suicide of his brother; Grey Room, a VR experience that takes the viewer into childhood memories shaped by diplopia; and Zoo Hypothesis, a reconstruction of an animal memorial ceremony from World War II. Through various 3D scanning techniques, Hsu and Chen navigate a desaturated digital terrain of grayscale models, embarking on an exploration of “mourning techniques,” a passage through sensory catastrophe and neural residue.

The publication also features two essays: One is a lecture-performance script co-written with dramaturg Betty Yi-Chun Chen, first presented at Theater der Welt in Germany in 2023. The other is a conceptual essay “A Few Exercises in Mourning and Notes on Catastrophism,” co-authored by the artists as a reflection on the philosophical underpinnings of their recent works.

Book Size: 210 x 250 mm
Pages: 112
Taipei: dmp.editions, 2025.