Wei-Chi Su is a researcher and socially engaged artist from Taiwan, based in Arnhem, recently graduated from ArtEZ with a Master’s in Critical Fashion Practices. During her studies, she realised not only the industrial fashion appears to have lost its human dimension but the current art and design institutions have also been reproducing the dogmas of the modern/colonial order, fostering racial bias, sexism and cultural hierarchies. Based on her cultural background and critical views on political issues in the design industry, her approach to art and design practices is thus developed and characterised by strategies of intervention and reconfiguration.

Her works devote to making visible the perspectives, cultures and communities that have been systematically undervalued in design practices. They often reflect on feminism or decolonial contexts, emphasising incommensurability and reflective solidarity between individuals. Because she believes under the premise of recognising the differences will give us the option to confront the classification and ranking of people and regions which are the cornerstone of coloniality. She tends to integrate her work into pedagogical scenarios and interdisciplinary media as ways to democratise social and decolonial artistic practices, for creating a more engaging, co-existing and non-hierarchical design environment.

EDUCATION

MA Critical Fashion Practices
ArtEZ University of The Arts, NL | 2020 - 2022

BA Fashion Design
ShihChien University, Taiwan | 2015 - 2019

EXPERIENCES

Co-Creator

State of Fashion Biennale 2022 | Ways of Caring_Fashion as Encounters_Co-existing Knowledge, NL | 02-05. 2022

Project Curator- Part Time
Schone Kleren Campagne, NL | 09-12. 2021

Research Intern
Hul le Kes, NL | 04 - 06. 2021

Founder & Fashion designer
WEICHISU, Taiwan | 2020-2021

Fashion Design Assistant
Wangliling, Taiwan | 2020

Fashion Design Assistant
CalvinChin, Taiwan | 2019

Fashion Design Intern
Marisfrolg Shenzhen, China | 2019

Teaching Assistant- Part Time
Pattern Drafting & Construction, Taiwan | 2017-2018

Fashion Design Intern
Charinyeh, Taiwan | 2017

AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS

FASHIONCLASH Festival 2022 
Maastricht, NL | 11. 2022

State of Fashion Biennale 2022 | Ways of Caring
Fashion as Encounters_Co-existing Knowledge
Arnhem, NL | 06-07. 2022

International Fashion Conference | Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity
Arnhem, NL | 07. 2022

Young Pin Design Award - Selected
Fashion Design, Taipei, Taiwan | 2019

Shih Chien Graduate Fashion Show- Honorable Mention
Fashion Design, Taipei, Taiwan | 2019

LunarFest Vancouver -The Galleria of Imperial Inspirations
Oakridge Centre, Canada | 2019

WORKSHOPS

EXPERAMA: (re)Activating Experiential Dimensions

ArtEZ Critical Fashion Practices Generation 32
Opening workshop
Arnhem, NL | 5th-9th Sep. 2022

AesthesSis AestheTic Workshops


International Fashion Conference: Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity Arnhem, NL | 1st Jul. 2022

Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Jewellery-Linking Bodies
Arnhem, NL | 25th Apr. 2022

ArtEZ Critical Fashion Practices Generation 30 & 31
Arnhem, NL | 2nd Feb. 2022
                        21st Mar. 2022