Workshop | Li-Chun Lin （Marina） & Yin-Ju Chen

This event will take place over two days online. The first day is a pre-workshop lecture introduction to shamanism (one hour), open to all and compulsory for workshop participants. The second day is the workshop (two and a half hours).  

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Li-Chun Lin (Marina) has spent over ten years traveling around the world to study from various shamanic cultures, provide shamanic healing, teach shamanism courses, as well as lead rituals. She has been invited to give lectures on shamanism in cross-strait galleries and has spoken on ayahuasca shaman training at the Ayahuasca—Kosmik Journey VR Exhibition in Taiwan. Her collaborative artwork has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale (2021) and around the globe.

Li-Chun has maintained a deep connection to and studied plant spirits intensely. She is familiar with the relationships between sexual energy, the sacred feminine force, shamanism, and magic. Believing in the non-duality of body and earth (身土不二, literally: “body soil no two,” which means that the body’s present condition is the result of its environment), she continuously refines approaches of touching another person's soul through the five senses and consciousness expansion. Li-Chun is one of the few practitioners in Asia to have been fully trained in the authentic Ayahuasca lineage. She draws on core shamanism teachings to develop unique shamanic world experiences. Under the guidance of Israeli and British occultists, Li-Chun has received initiation into magical organizations.

Currently, Li-Chun’s only teachers are her own body and the ground beneath her feet.

Installation View: Yin-Ju Chen, Notes on Psychedelics III: 2-19-20, 2021. Courtesy of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

Artist Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual/ shamanic practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness.

She has participated in many international exhibitions and film festivals, such as the Taipei Biennial (TW, 2020, 2012), the Gwangju Biennale (KR 2021), the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (RU, 2019), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL, 2018, 2011), Transmediale (DE, 2018), Liverpool Biennial (UK, 2016), Forum Expanded at the 66th Berlinale (DE, 2016), the Biennial of Sydney (AU, 2016), Yin-Ju Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations (US, 2016), Action at a Distance–Yin-Ju Chen Solo Exhibition (TW, 2015), The Starry Heaven Above and the Moral Law Within (TW, 2015), the Shanghai Biennale (CN, 2014), and A Journal of the Plague Year (HK, KR, US, TW 2013-2014).

In conjunction withClose Your Eyes and You Will Know an exhibition by Yin-Ju Chen and Li-Chun Lin (Marina)

The exhibition Close Your Eyes and You Will Know and related events are presented as the second season of the ICA’s second biennial artist research program, Another Knowledge Is Possible (2021-23), exploring neglected and repressed ways of knowing and the complex politics of knowledge decolonization. 

As of 11 March 2022:

Due to recent spikes of infection with the new Omicron BA.2 subvariant in Shanghai and the adoption of dynamic campus public health policies by NYU Shanghai, the exhibition with Yin-Ju Chen and Li-Chun Lin (Marina), Close Your Eyes and You Will Know, will be temporarily closed to visitors until further notice. 

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Monday–Friday: Temporarily Closed

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

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周六、周日 闭馆

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