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The Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University continued its 16-year tradition of the signature educational program, the “Peach Blossom Workshop,” by launching a new experimental initiative in 2025.
For the first time, the creative energy was rooted entirely within the campus, transforming the event into a dynamic exploration of space, perception, and artistic action. Six renowned young Taiwanese artists collaborated with students from the Department of Art and Design to carry out projects across various campus locations. Their works organically blended into everyday learning and living spaces, inspiring viewers to reimagine their perception of space and sensation while breathing new artistic life into the campus environment.
The participating artists included Jing-Bao Chen, Chih-Mei Huang, Wei Peng, Yi-Chun Fan, Shih-Fu Yu, and Bo-Ching Chou. Each artist led a student team to conduct interdisciplinary creations involving performance, installation, and spatial transformation, all deeply connected to the campus setting and its humanistic context.
Wei Peng’s What Else Did You See? was inspired by the wind tunnel beneath the extended platform of Building 7. The artist constructed a gradient visual installation using transparent films, guiding viewers through a space that oscillated between clarity and blur, encouraging them to reconstruct the relationship between architecture and nature through personal experience and memory.
Shih-Fu Yu’s work And Then, There Was Light used light and wind as media to channel sunlight into previously dim corners of the campus. Symbolizing a transformation from darkness to brightness, the piece embodied the Eastern philosophy of “guiding light and gathering energy,” turning quiet corners into spaces of poetic flow.
Yi-Chun Fan’s Now and Then used the arched staircase as a symbolic setting. Through slow, grounded body movements in a performative act, the work conveyed the ambiguity and fluidity experienced while pursuing goals, emphasizing the sensory experience of the present moment over the clarity of a destination.
Chor-Kheng CK, Lim, Chair of the Department of Art and Design, remarked that the “Peach Blossom Workshop” served not only as a platform for artistic creation but also as a powerful statement of art’s role in public spaces and its social influence. Through collaboration between artists and students, the workshop strengthened students’ practical skills and team synergy while leaving lasting sensory and intellectual imprints on the campus. It also sparked deeper dialogue about life and aesthetics.
