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The name Ground Zero refers to fragmented, meandering, and residual experiences—and asks how such experiences can be reconstituted into shared public meaning within artistic practice.

Our work spans both conventional and unconventional public cultural contexts. From personal lived experiences and local cultural governance to museum-based cultural interpretation, we employ edible sculptures and mobile art installations to situate artistic creation within institutional frameworks, spatial conditions, and audience structures. Through this approach, our projects unfold as artistic actions that invite participation and response.

We envision Ground Zero as a form of artistic practice that comes to mind when seeking to understand Taiwan—one grounded in artistic participation and social sculpture as its core methodologies. Taiwan’s ambiguous and complex histories and contemporary realities form the conditions of our practice, allowing experience to continuously generate meaning across different cultural contexts and over time.

Meng-Yu, Hsu

Founder

Skilled at using creation as a tool for thinking and companionship, continuously organizing context and opening up possibilities for action amid complex situations and uncertainty. My partners see me as a good listener, highly perceptive, resilient, and steady, able to offer different angles and expansive perspectives in adversity. I am often responsible for opening up overlooked spaces for imagination, allowing people and matters to realign and continue moving forward.

Lucky Chen

Strategy Director

Once described by team members as a magician or a humanoid AI in a hidden role, I am in fact a strategist passionate about organizational design and leadership. I possess an intuition for uncovering the core of problems and can quickly transform complex information into clear paths for action, supporting the organization with calm and comprehensive thinking and firmly anchoring the most valuable directions for development amid change.

Ofelia Yang（Ofe）

Art Director

A creator who works with image and sound, with practice spanning animation, illustration, and music. Sensitive in perception and attentive to listening, often sorting through emotions and memories through companionship and dialogue, allowing creation to become a process that can be understood and can also generate connection.

Verena Chen

Project Manager | Translational Practice Design

Skilled at organizing scattered issues and goals clearly, identifying feasible paths, and advancing decisions and action through rational synthesis. Careful and responsible in work, with a strong emphasis on management and execution efficiency; outwardly rigorous and rational, yet also gentle and humorous at heart—a partner who is cool on the outside but warm on the inside. Enjoys working with others to refine abstract ideas into reality, turning them into things that truly remain.

Sylvia Liang

Project Coordinator | Project Implementation Strategist

With empathy and observation at my core, I am skilled at reading situations on site, organizing context, and finding workable methods amid complexity and uncertainty. In work, I am flexible yet steady, with strong situational responsiveness and coordination ability, able to attend carefully to every human-related aspect. I am also especially attentive to things in motion and transition, helping the value of what is not yet finished to be seen and continuously moving projects forward.

Hsiu, Chou

Human Observation Intern

Inclined to enter the field through subtle and difficult observations, responding to bodily states, spatial relationships, and interpersonal atmospheres.
Having long worked alongside the body, I am familiar with building connections among perception, rhythm, and labor, allowing creation and execution to take root in reality.

Ichen Huang

Planning and Administration | Graduate

A sincere and straightforward practitioner, willing to express viewpoints boldly and take action, while also enjoying sharing and excelling at fostering a positive working atmosphere, injecting steady and sustained momentum into the team. When facing complex tasks, skilled at organizing and managing processes, building step by step at a steady pace while pursuing quality, and driving projects toward realization while valuing responsibility and standards.

Awards

 

2019 Awarded the CREATORS Creation Support Program by Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB).

2019 Finalist in the Integrated Design Category of the Golden Pin Design Award.

2018 Awarded the Good Design Award (Best 100) in Japan.

2018 First Prize in Social Design by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

2017 Silver Award in the Taoyuan Makerthon “Smart Manufacturing x Design x Co-Creation”.

Key Projects

2024 Wild Reader Festival

2020-2024 Future Formosa Culinary Lab

2023-2024 Islands Cooker Series

2023 po̍k-tsà tsìn-tsîng（爆炸進前）
Before the Explosion: Special Exhibition on Su Beng’s Underground Activities

2023 Artists at the Night Market | – National Language Visual Arts Experience Camp

2020 “Panpanhua- Traditional Taiwanese Tile Pattern Catalog” successfully funded on the ZecZec crowdfunding platform

2020 Invited to participate in the International Digital Fabrication Conference on “Design, Art, and Technology”

2020 Selected as an exhibiting team for the 2019 Treasure Hill Light Festival at Taipei Artist Village

2019 Curated the special exhibition “Landscape of Marginal Land” at Venue 157, Bopiliao Historic Block

2019 Awarded the Ministry of Culture’s Subsidy for the Indigenous Villages Cultural Development Plan

2019 Curated the special exhibition “Laba Change” Exchange Laboratory at the Tu Tan Shih Market, Bopiliao Historic Block

2019 Curated a deliberative democratic participatory theater performance “Good People in Yuanli”

2019 Curated the “Classic Shops in a Classic Town” Yuanli Classic Shops Logo Workshop

2019 Served as the chief design team for the Nan Hui Association’s “Homecoming, Not Southbound” philanthropic food truck project

2019 Invited to participate in the “2018 Yuchi Drama Festival”

2019 Invited to participate in the “Old Object Festival X Original Creators Festival”

2019 Invited to participate in the “Chengxi Street Parade – Yo Bopiliao”

2019 Settled in the Yuanli Century-old Public Market

2018 Curated the special exhibition and charity auction “City Dawn” Heartfelt World

2018 Invited to participate in the “Asia Handmade Exhibition”

2018 Invited to participate in the “Miscellaneous Study Exhibition”

2018 Curated the “Little Rose Mobile Art Festival” at the Tainan 321 Alley Art Community 

2018 Invited to participate in the “Daxi Art Season”

2018 Invited to participate in the “2018 Yuchi Drama Festival”

2018 Invited to participate in the “Taiwan Old House Rebirth Association – Yong An Ju Concert”

2018 Settled in the “Ministry of Economic Affairs Social Innovation Lab”

2018 Invited to participate in the “Taiwan Creative Expo”

2018 Curated the special exhibition “Urban Dialogues Starting from Street Food”

2018 Invited to participate in the Hsinchu Prefecture Library’s cultural and historical promotion activities

2017 Invited to participate in the “Mengjia Qingshan King Festival”

2017 Invited to participate in the “Dadaocheng Monster Week”

2017 Made debut at “Nuit Blanche Taipei”

2017 Formally established “Ground Zero Studio”