Tienyu Chang's Portfolio 2019
Data Unheard Voices Clerkenwell Design week D&AD FMP
How much sugar from beverages do I consume each day?
120g (5 drinks) 73g (5 drinks)
41g (3 drinks) 31g (4 drinks)
30.6g (6 drinks)
25g (6 drinks)
10g (4 drinks)
Wednesday / 3rd October
Thursday / 4th October
Friday / 5th October
Saturday / 6th October
Sunday 7th October
Monday / 8th October
Tuesday / 9th October
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Sainkho Namtchylak
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Sainkho Namtchylak
A singer/performer from Tuva, combines traditional Oriental cult music with contemporary western music. Namtchylak was born in a secluded village in the south of Tuva in 1957. She moved to russia when she was young, and her parents both passed away due to the hard time of the post war. She is an experimental singer, mastering extended vocal techniques such as throat singing and other artistic devices of Central-Asian music. She wants to present ordinary people's pain by her speical way of singing. As a performer, she combines the syncretism of old religious arts with the multimedia of contemporary performing arts.
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Why
Namtchylak's performance is heavily inspired from her experiences during her younger years. She described her voice as " terribley honest, naked, scream of woman." She used her voice as a weapon to describe the pain, that simple people like herself felt during the post war in Russia after both of her parents pass away. Leaving her and others in a similar situation to an uncertain future. Through her performance, her voice depicts the suffering and fear at that time which represents normal people's depression and fear. She is a Buddhist who forgive and recover from the thing that hurts her. She believes that people should not to just suffer and hide in the corner. Her performers healed and released people constrained emotions.
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" How to express fear of simple person, how they afraid, how they are suffering. I had to use some special tools to express through my voice."
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Interview link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XcA1fSNkM0
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Response
I felt the power of sadness through Namtchylak's performance, the emotions she pulls out is shocking me. I like her point of view when it comes to facing the difficult parts of life, she forgives everything bad that happened to her and transforms to a great performance to return it in a peaceful mind. There are more and more young people, especially University students in our generation having mental problems even comitting suicide because of depression and other different reasons. It is even harder for students who are studying aboard, they were facing high expectations from their friends and families back home. Sometimes it's hard to blend into a different environment and also it is difficult to explain to people who care about you because you don't want them to be worried. As time goes by, you just stop trying to reach out. In response to Namtchylak's performance, I made an installation. A paper mache helmet that covers with newspapers of students and youth suicided, You can scream inside the helmet to express your depression and pain, you can also just enjoyed the muffled sound of the noise that is blocked by the papers. I brought them to many places took photographs and film to present there are always people in different places that have mental illnesses and depression, we should not just pretend there aren't people who are suffering.
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Overview Clerkenwell has always been famous for their clockmaking in the past. The history here is closely linked with this industry, which has the same vitality as the church. St. James Church recorded many things that happened in the past in this area. The design is a clock that's disrupted by time and the black hole, to present the concept of the existence of the different dimensions to represent that although time will pass the memories and the spirit of this area will always remain and continue in people’s minds in a different form.
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St. James Church
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Photo credit:indiegenous-justice.president.gov.tw
Lost Voices Fomrosan aborignial languages
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Language is one way of performing cultural expression; Language informs culture, culture informs language. When the language dies out, the culture is gone, too.
In Taiwan, only about 35% of the 500,000 Austronesian indigenous people can speak their tribal language. We are facing a dangerous situation for indigenous languages. Seven out of 16 indigenous languages here are listed by Unesco as critically endangered. Sinckan Manuscripts are the first recorded document of aborignial language in Taiwanese history, which used latin letters to spell out their languafge. The Sinckan language, spoken by the Siraya people who lived in what is now Tainan, was employed by Dutch missionaries to facilitate both missionary and government affairs during the reign of Dutch East India Company in Taiwan. They also created a romanized script, compiled a dictionary of the language, and taught the natives how to write their own language with these romanized characters. Under incessant suppression on ethnicity, along with the government's ignorance towards cultural preservation and resurrection, aboriginals' culture became appropriated, monetized, and used as attraction sites by the government in order to promote
Taiwanese culture. These government measures lead to the immigration of youths from their land to urban cities, and at the same time the gradual disappearance of their language and culture. Only since 1995 have aboriginal people been able to use their original names on official documents. Prior to this change in law, they were only allowed to use names adapted from Chinese characters. In August 2016, the Taiwanese president Tsai Ingwen apologized to the native people of Taiwan and guaranteed their rights as well as to preserve their traditional heritage, according to the Transitional Justice Commission. However, there is so much more to be done to proctect their rich and beautiful culture and languages.
( figure. ) Gospel of St. Matthew in Dutch, Sinckan, Taivoan, and English. Original Dutch and Sinckan above is from 1661 by Daniel Gravius.
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Background
Taiwan is the ancestral homeland of Austronesian-speaking peoples; the country’s indigenous tongues play a crucial role in understanding the distribution of Austronesian languages in the Asia-Pacific region. There are 16 officially recognized indigenous groups and a total of 42 dialects.
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Patterns
Credit: http://ms5757.net/yblog/happyhouse/articles/2010-07-23-11082.html
Each group has its own unique pattern with unique meanings, which is widely present it their culture as it is their way of recording stories and beliefs. Most groups use their patterns in textiles, pottery, wood sculpture, or even have them painted on stones. In the photos are Payuan people's pattern, their iconic patterns are the snake.
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Design Concept
Due to the different indigenous groups, within them are so many symbols and patterns that possess different meanings and hold important traditions. In order to avoid using their symbols inappropriately and creating a typeface that is superficial by grouping them all together, the concept of this design is to allow all 16 indigenous groups to make their own patterns with the simple geometric shapes that can form latin letters and Chinese letters, which could be uses flexibly in print and also digitally. This is a concept showing the example that indigenous people could develop and use it in a various ways.
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Concept Display
This is an example showcasing the way this set of stamps created with geometric shapes can be used to form letters. The idea is that the indigenous people can mix and match the stamps to convey their own patterns and language.
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Poster
Even though the government had set up the Indigenous Justice Committee in 2016, nothing has really been done. The traditional lands are still taken and developed by big companies, and the kids are still lacking resources. This poster says "indigenous justice" in traditional Chinese characters. The first word means "original", which is made by the stamps I created. Using Chinese characters brings more awareness to Indigenous people's rights to the Han-Chinese people in Taiwan. This poster is one example of how the stamps could develop.
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Textbook
The idea behind creating a textbook is to inspire each indigenous group of Taiwan to make their own academic materials based off of their language, traditions, beliefs, symbols, etc. By having visual content that represents and symbolises their group's characteristics and history, these materials can be utilised in schools for younger generations to learn about their heritage and cultural background in an entertaining way. The middle one is my design of Cou's language version of the textbook.
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Data Unheard Voices Clerkenwell Design week D&AD FMP
Final Major Project Unit 9 Professional & Personal Practice Incorporating Unit 10 Blog Project Summary A narrative and metaphor combination of film and zine of defining what people think femininity is, to bring attention to oppression towards the value of femininity. Context The society is still working towards masculinity. Femininity is depreciated and undervalued, moreover, the traits of the feminine in people are seen as more negative images and impression. There are still many people suppressing themselves to fit in this more masculine world. We should restore femininity and balance with masculinity together to create a more equal society not only between men and women but also different gender traits of people. Research focus Seeking the values and both positve and negative impression of how people in London and Taiwan
think femininity is through survey. Discussing how stereotypical image that society has put on being feminine and suppress the value for it. Also, within the lack of seeing femininity’s value, it causes the unbalance of society.
Audience 1. Young people (any gender) in the western society that do not aware of their natural femininie power inside them, to bring more awareness of not supressing being femininie. 2. Young women in madarin speaking country, who has struggling being themselves. Media A short film and zine Outcome Exploring the beauty and values with a film and editorial to make the audience more aware of the importance of femininity in everyone.
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Rethink femininity
Growing up in Taiwan as a woman, I was already quite lucky than many people. My parents are quite open when it comes to education, they never really limited what I could do because of my gender. My dad always encourages me to do whatever I wanted and he told me that his job is to fully support my dream and who I am. However, when I was a little girl, my mom always dressed me up like a little princess and I still remember how I hated those lace decoration on the dress because it made my skin itch a lot. When I refused to wear it, my mom will feel hurt and get a bit angry, and I didn’t want to upset her so I would end up wearing it and scratch my skin until it turned red. She dressed my sister and I up this way to impress others, which made me even more uncomfortable. Around the same time, my dad would occasionally buy my sister and I gifts. One would always be pink and the other blue. My sister always got to choose first, and would take the pink one, thus I was left with the blue, and had to pretend I liked blue. Because of these instances growing up, it wasn’t until more recent years when I started to like wearing dresses, and realized that I actually really like the color pink. But in school, I was lucky enough that when I started elementary school, Taiwanese law just passed: “Gender equity education act”, which I learnt how to respect people of any gender identity. Growing up, I always thought everyone is equal, until I realized that this whole time, I have been suppressing my femininity
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because I didn’t want to be judged or seen as a weak girl. I wanted to show people I could do anything I wanted, yet I wasn’t loving myself because I was hiding my femininity. At the same time, I was also judging other girls that aren’t like me. And I was always angry about men treating the more feminine girls differently. Also, my LGBTQ friends are always having struggles to show their true selves because they either behave too feminine or too masculine. After I came to London for university, I discovered and studied about feminism and found out many issues are still in society. The western ideals of feminism helped women improve a lot, yet women are still not free. I really feel like the successful women here have to behave a certain way so that men will treat them equally, and it is even worse for minorities. By conducting a survey and allowing people of any age and gender to take part in sharing their views on femininity and coming up with metaphors to describe it, I hope to shine light on the topic while allowing people to pay more attention and think about what femininity means to them and how it may be viewed in different societies. This editorial then focuses on discovering and visualizing the value and beauty of femininity through these metaphors, giving people the chance to think about all the different facets to femininity.
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