Yuli Junior High School Stationing Project
May 2026
Chin ko
MYTHS
FROM THE BODY
Tianmei Art Foundation × Yuli Junior High School Artist-in-School Program
Tianmei Art Foundation × Yuli Junior High School Artist-in-Residence Program
"Myths from the Body" is a residency program for artist Chin Ko, which will be part of the "Tianmei Artists' School Residency Program" in 2026. The program will involve a month-long creative teaching and on-site workshop at Yuli Junior High School in Hualien.
The course uses the "body" as the starting point for creation. Through chalk drawing, body outline sketching, image extension, and collective creation, it guides students to rethink the relationship between the body, self, and imagination, starting from their own perceptions. Students draw body outlines on the playground ground and transform, extend, and narrate on the existing forms, gradually transforming the originally recognizable body into mythical images and characters.
Throughout the course, students' understanding of the body is concretely presented through drawing: from depicting outlines, partially obscuring parts, and symbolic body components, to images bearing personal experiences and traces of growth, all become part of the creation. The course does not aim at nude art training or psychoanalysis, but rather uses art as a way to view and rename oneself, enabling students to establish a connection with their own perceptions through images.
This project is hosted by the Tien Mei Art Foundation, with artists Liu Wen-Chi and Chin Ke jointly present at Yu-Li Junior High School. The two courses start from "landscape" and "body" respectively, establishing a dialogue between local experience, adolescent perception and creative imagination, responding to Yu-Li's unique natural environment and school life experience.
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PHOTO BY LIU, YAOJIN
A letter to Yuli Junior High School
To be honest, when I first joined this program, I also wondered what I could "teach" you all. After all, I'm only a decade or so older than you. More than teaching, I'd like to share the emotions and self-interpretation that creative work brings me ... read more...
"Observational Notes on the Shape of the Body"
In class, I once asked a student, "After you take off your uniform, can I still tell you're a student?" The student answered very clearly, "No."
At this age, they are already able to understand social identity and power relationships; they know how others perceive them ...read more...