Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist 

Over the years, Body Phase Studio has continually focused on and laid the foundation for an aesthetic rooted in a sixth sense in art, emphasizing a valuable social aspect. Guided by director YAO Lee-Chun, this work promotes theater as a space where margins and existence can freely unfold. The collaboration between the two performers impresses, evolving from “connecting aphasic bodies” to a vivid realm where desire clashes between life and death. Reversing barriers and constructing subjectivity challenge the cognitive limits imposed by normality, offering freedom within constraints to transcend boundaries and breach discipline through chaotic eros. Amid uncontrolled distortion and discord, this work explores paths to love, from glowing trajectories of light and religious breaths to isolated celebrations and confrontational silences, fostering fierce resilience and vibrant creativity to celebrate life’s hardships and cruelties. (Commentator / CHOW Ling-Chih)

Artwork Introduction  

Oh! Baby 2025 is a duet performance re-choreographed by YAO Lee-Chun, based on an original piece by Seoul-based artist KANG Sung-kuk from 2010. This work continues Kang’s long-term exploration of performance art and dance, addressing societal views on disability through his physical condition. Featuring Taiwanese dancer PENG Pei-Hsuan, the performance begins with physical differences, blending dance, performance art, experimental music, and lighting to unfold a multi-perspectival theatrical narrative set in a minimalist environment that explores social and cultural boundaries, including gender.

About the Artist 

Body Phase Studio, established in 1991 by WANG Mo-Lin, a pioneer of Taiwan’s Little Theater Movement, is a pioneering non-profit arts organization in Taiwan focused on cross-cultural exchange. The group has been led by YAO Lee-Chun since 2007. Since its founding, it has fostered dialogue and multidimensional aesthetic discourse among artists from Taiwan and other countries through international arts festivals and theatrical productions, opening new opportunities for Taiwanese theater to engage with the global community after the Little Theater Movement.

Production Team

Performers: Kang Sung-kuk, Peng Pei-hsuan

Music Performance & DJ: Sandra Li

Original Concept & Choreography: Kang Sung-kuk 

Director: Yao Lee-chun

Scenography: Yao Lee-chun Kang Sung-kuk

Music Design: Sandra Li, Youngmin Cho

Lighting Design: Wu Hsia-ning

Stage Manager: Lin Chia-yu
Sound Design: Liu Yu-chieh - Mu Sound
Master Electrician: Tsai Cheng-lin
Technical Director: Hsiao Ru-jhun
Props Master: HSU Tsung-Jen
Executive Producer: Tsai Chia-Feng
Photographer: Ping Hsu
Documentary: GRain Studio
Interpreter: Gin Feng