魏姿芸是一位臺灣藝術家，以碎片化的自我檔案與圖畫/書寫為基底，並透過限時限地的暫時性空間、虛構敘事與策展，叩問身份認同的潛在敘事與當下性。近期展覽「印物進行中：是什麼讓書成為書？Printing in Progress: What Makes a Book a Book?」(2025)，「健忘國度 Nation of Scatterbrain」（2024），「我們做/在『這裡』」（2024)。
作為引導者，她透過教授小誌（Zine）寫作與製作，協助參與者闡述潛在或偏好的敘事與可採取行動。其教學實踐曾與多個組織及機構合作，包括普瑞特藝術學院（Pratt Institute）、醜小鴨出版社（Ugly Duckling Presse）、國立臺灣科技大學、台大藝文中心以及台北藝術書展（Taipei Art Book Fair）。
她目前也是共同集合（Co-Assembly）以及設計與藝術社群花園SpOnAcT的共同創辦人。
Tzu-Yun Wei (Bushwa’s Room) is a Taiwan-based artist, designer/facilitator, worker-owner. Their makings are based on fragmented self-archives, drawing/writing. By creating temporary, site-specific spaces and employing fictional narratives and curations, they explore the nowness of paradoxical identity. Selected exhibitions include Printing in Progress: What Makes a Book a Book? (2025), Nation of Scatterbrain (2024), Things We’ve Done Here Make it “Here” (2024).
As a facilitator, they teach zine-writing/making for articulating potential/preferred narratives and actions for participants. Their pedagogical practices have collaborated with organizations and institutions such as Pratt Institute, Ugly Duckling Presse, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, NTU Art Center, and the Taipei Art Book Fair.
As a worker-owner, they are currently a co-founder of the Taiwan Design Cooperative Co-Assembly and the design community garden SpOnAcT.
email: tzu@coassembly.work
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Sa Su She (w/ Yi Qiān, Hsio Zhū）
From co-working hour to workshop rehearsal, Sa Su She is an ongoing living/gathering/making space in Yonghe.
A collection of insights we wish to share after one year of establishing Coassembly design cooperative. In the narrow gaps between our full-time jobs, we met weekly to discuss and co-author this book that looks beyond individual success or failure, focusing instead on the structural labor dilemmas we observed.
Printing in Progress: What Makes a Book a Book? (2024-ongoing) (w/Shaky Floor & New Art Studio) A reading-space project documenting the learning process with bookists in New York and Taiwan through teaching and exhibition.
Nation of Scatteredbrain (2024)Five-day live performance @ Living Skin Building on the artist’s previous confessional work involving note-taking and drawing, this residency will explore everyday note-taking as a means of memorizing a speculative, fictional self—a Taiwanese civil servant.
What we’ve done here make it here (2024) Pop-up Exhibition @ Field Projects
A 3-day evolving landscape formed from my past notes and drawings, and closing with a group diary-reading.
The Boi’s Room + Silent Drawing Club (w/ Fade Chen) (2024) A series of attempts on turning rental spaces into a drawing and meditating spaces.
CLAY HANG (w/ Matt & Yukari)(2024)
A series of gathering through clay making. We documented these small objects and moments through large sc
Space of footnotes* (2023)A virtual reading space through research of Taiwanese queerness, specul
Asterisk as a Life Form (2023)
A series of transdisciplinary projects, focusing on the formation of queerness within everyday body movements, kinship, and self-creation.
Notebook Zine (2020-)
Notebook series are zines I’ve been making since 2019. I love making zines.
workshop
Self-Narrative & Zine Making (2024) (w/NTU Cultural Center & NTUST Design Graduate Program)
A 2-week workshop guiding participants to explore their positioning and value within
educational and cultura administration through the history an practice of "Manifestos" across art, design, and philosophy. Through self-
narrative exercises combining imagery and writing, participants will understand manifestos, untangling the beliefs, methodologies, and preferred life-world narratives through zines.
Printing in Progress: What Makes a Book a Book? (2024) (w/Pratt Institute & Ugly Duckling Presse)
A 10-week intensive a t the Ugly
Duckling Presse (UDP) studio
explores the intersection of writing,
book design, and letterpress printing
a s tools f o r social intervention.
Students examine their positionality
as "cultural activists" while working
collectively to produce individual
book projects within a non-profit
publishing ecosystem.
Homing.zip (w/ Munus Shih)
A online workshop explore the sense of belonging each person has in their city. Using the p5.zine interactive tool developed by creative engineer Munus, we will allow each person to create their own downloadable and shareable local chronicle.
I AM: Coding My Thing | Creative Coding Festival (2023-2024)
A workshop explores technology by collecting and reimagining their functions through the lens of four distinct actions: "Release," "Protect," "Contain," and "Move."
A series of workshops designed for participants to explore their careers, life purposes, and selves through body movements, tangible objects, and drawing tools.
Hidden Beauty: Sensory Walk in Wu Family Garden | Nan-tai Fu-Gong Organization (2018)
A sensory workshop encourages students to explore the Wu Family Garden area through 5 senses, and to facilitate empathy relation between city and body.
OUR SHAPES: self-awareness workshop | Nan-Tai Fu-Gong Organization (2018) Through recreating the scenes and dining experiences from the fable, "Heaven and Hell," guiding students to engage in self-awareness and practice empathy, fostering an understanding of the value of mutual aid.
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GROOVY QUOTE | Taipei Art Book Fair
Key visual design | 2024
WFH t-shirt design | TAIPEI ART BOOK FAIR x TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS (2021)
Key visual design | Our Good Bones by Fei Liu (2024)
Key visual design | 6th Taiwan Film Festival in Berlin, Home Wherever (2023)
"Night Bus TW Terminal is 0 Meter Ahead" Group Exhibition (2021)
Scarf Design | ALONE Pop-up store (2019)
