Ou Jiun-You

OU Jiun-You was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She currently lives and works in Vienna (AT) and Taipei (TW). With a social science degree in international relations from National Taiwan University (TW), she started her self-taught artistic practices in the field of material-based practices in Taiwan since 2008. After working and teaching for almost ten years in Taiwan, U.S., Germany, and Estonia, she moved to Vienna and began her master study in Art and Science department, die Angewandte (AT) since 2021.

The methodologies and working methods of Ou Jiun-You could be unfolded from both anthropological and psychological approaches. As a bricoleur and an incompetent practitioner toward individuation, she realizes her thoughts with various media into (wearable) objects and (performative) installations. Since 2020, with more focus back on her own body, she has become interested in the research of self-optimization in a broad sense and has been working on it with texts, voices, and site-specific installations.