Source: Indiana Public Media
Jawshing Arthur Liou is an artist with a background in photography, digital media, film, and journalism. His recent projects include a pilgrimage in the sacred mountains in Tibet, a journey through the tsunami-ravaged coastline of Japan, and a cinematic collaboration with a brain scientist regarding the connection between endocannabinoids and memory.
Liou works with lens-based materials and electronic imaging to create installations depicting mental and surreal spaces. Many of his videos do not contain clear narratives but are meditative in nature, allowing time to slow to a ruminative pace while spatial scales oscillate between the microcosmic and infinitely expansive. Using sources ranging from landscapes and oil paint to human body, much of Liou’s work is related to notions of impermanence, human tragedy, and spiritual sanctuary.
Liou’s videos and prints have been featured in programs, exhibitions, and collections in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Rubin Museum in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Liou is the recipient of Asian Cultural Council Grant, New York; Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Indianapolis; and Garry B. Fritz Award from the Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Chicago.
Liou is currently the Herman B. Wells Professor of Digital Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. His ambitious new artwork, House of the Singing Winds, is a multi-channel video installation inspired by the historical Indiana home and studio of painter Theodore Clement Steele. It is currently on display at the Eskenazi Musiem of Art.
Jawshing Arthur Liou spoke with Elliot Reichert, the museum’s Curator of Contemporary Art.
Listen to the interview here.