通过激活世界各地的公共空间，美籍华裔艺术家Candy Chang创造了能够揭示我们内心生活复杂性的仪式。她的实践包括匿名手写反思的参与式装置艺术，以及这些反思的视频和混合媒体复制品。她对公共生活中仪式的未来和手写文字的美学感兴趣。她是21世纪超过一百万手写焦虑、希望、痛苦和恩典时刻的守护者。

她最著名的作品是2011年的参与性公共艺术作品《在死之前》，重新构想了城市墙壁如何帮助我们在今天作为一个社区来面对死亡和意义。已有超过5000面“在死之前”墙由全球75多个国家的社区创建，《大西洋月刊》称其为“有史以来最具创意的社区项目之一”。她受过建筑、设计和城市规划的专业训练，最初与世界各地的社区合作创作参与式艺术，以反映我们社区的状态。在经历了悲伤和抑郁之后，她利用这一媒介反思我们心理状态。她创建了一个包含超过50000个焦虑和希望的纪念碑，将一幢建筑转变为哲学反思的工具，创造世俗的忏悔空间，并制作了关于情感障碍的电子神龛。她曾与包括费城壁画艺术、艺术生产基金、鲁宾艺术博物馆和安南伯格基金会等组织合作。她经常与James A. Reeves合作，他们的作品可以在Ritual Fields找到。

她是TED资深研究员、城市创新研究员和世界经济论坛青年全球领导者。她获得了Tony Goldman远见艺术家奖，并被《奥普拉杂志》评为“活出最佳生活”的地方英雄，同时被评为公共利益设计领域的前100位领导者之一。她的作品曾在威尼斯建筑双年展、库珀-休伊特国家设计博物馆、奥格登南部艺术博物馆和史密森美国艺术博物馆展出。她曾在赫尔辛基和新奥尔良居住，目前定居于纽约市。

艺术家声明

在我最黑暗的时刻，我看到了公共仪式的价值，它可以帮助恢复感知力，从周围的人身上学习，并记住我们的共同斗争和愿望远远超过了我们的差异。随着世界感觉更加不确定、分散注意力和疏离，情感基础设施比以往任何时候都更重要。

我创造仪式来沉思人类的境况。建筑物、广场和墙壁变成了互动的空间，用以面对我们心灵的阴暗角落。无论是写在一栋建筑的侧面还是挂在画廊墙上，每个回应都是匿名的，揭开了每个社区中都能发现的不适、恐惧、渴望、感激、幽默、痛苦和恩典。每个回应都是手写的，以粗线条、痛苦的涂鸦和谦逊的字母形式充满了个性。它们共同构成了当今我们社区的亲密肖像，以及我们需要帮助的地方。

我现在是来自世界各地超过一百万份手写反思的守护者。受到中国印章、书法和墨拓技术的启发，我像视觉冥想一样反复盖印它们，并在视频中进行排列。我将这些情感归还给公众，以便它们能帮助他人，并尊重手写文字的人性。这是对这些作者及其潦草痛楚的一种奉献行为，就像在21世纪初为我们的精神谱写出一首赞美诗。

教育
密歇根大学建筑学学士学位
密歇根大学平面设计学士学位
哥伦比亚大学城市规划硕士


ough the activation of public spaces around the world， Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang creates rituals that uncover the complexity of our inner lives. Her practice includes participatory installations of anonymous, handwritten reflections, as well as reproductions of these reflections through video and mixed media. She is interested in the future of ritual in public life and the aesthetics of the handwritten word. She is caretaker of over one million handwritten anxieties, hopes, pains, and moments of grace in the 21st century.

She is most known for her 2011 participatory public artwork Before I Die, which reimagines how the walls of our cities can help us grapple with mortality and meaning as a community today. Over 5,000 Before I Die walls have been created by communities in over 75 counties, and The Atlantic called it “one of the most creative community projects ever.” Trained in architecture, design, and urban planning, she originally created participatory art with communities around the world to reflect on the state of our neighborhoods. After struggling with grief and depression, she used this medium to reflect on the state of our psyches. She has created a monument of over 50,000 anxieties and hopes, transformed a building into a device for philosophical reflection, created secular spaces for confessions, and made electrified shrines on emotional barriers. She has worked with organizations including Mural Arts Philadelphia, Art Production Fund, the Rubin Museum of Art, and the Annenberg Foundation. She often collaborates with James A. Reeves and their work can be found at Ritual Fields.

She is a TED Senior Fellow, Urban Innovation Fellow, and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She is a recipient of the Tony Goldman Visionary Artist Award and was named a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero by Oprah Magazine, as well as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has lived in Helsinki and New Orleans and is currently based in New York City.

Artist Statement

During some of my darkest times, I’ve seen the value of public rituals to restore perceptive, learn from the people around me, and remember that our shared struggles and desires far outweigh our differences. As the world feels more uncertain, distracting, and alienating, emotional infrastructure feels more important than ever.

I create rituals to contemplate the human condition. Buildings, plazas, and walls become interactive spaces to reckon with the darker corners of our minds. Whether they’re written on the side of a building or hung on a gallery wall, each response is anonymous, unmasking the discomfort, dread, longing, gratitude, humor, pain, and grace found in every community. Each response is handwritten, loaded with character in the form of bold lines, pained scribbles, and modest letterforms. Together, they form an intimate portrait of our communities today and where we need help.

I am now caretaker of over one million handwritten reflections from people around the world. Inspired by the techniques of Chinese seals, calligraphy, and ink rubbings, I stamp them repeatedly like visual meditations and sequence them in videos. I return these sentiments to the public so they might help others and to honor the humanity of the handwritten word. It’s an act of devotion to these writers and their scribbled aches, like composing a hymn of our psyches in the early 21st century.

Education
B.S, Architecture, University of Michigan
B.S, Graphic Design, University of Michigan
M.S., Urban Planning, Columbia University