It is very gentle.
Karinne Grimaud
演講與媒體
Ku Chi-Chun 辜琪鈞 · SpeakerTalks and press
One pursuit, for a lifetime. The TEDxYongkang talk in which she accounts for that decision, and the record of the work since, from an interview in Venice to a Taiwan special on Osaka television.
TEDxYongkangIndependently organized TED event · Tainan
The Power of Devoting a Lifetime to One Pursuit
一生只做一件事的力量
Flute, piano and voice until seventeen; calligraphy and painting at the National Taiwan University of Arts; classrooms, then a post at National Taiwan University. She handed in her notice to paint. The talk is her account of that decision and of what followed: without a grant, she took the work to galleries in Tokyo, Busan, Paris and Los Angeles; her mineral-pigment method became a utility-model patent; two organisations, in Taipei and Paris, now hold the door open for other artists.
TEDxYongkang · Edited cut, English subtitles
Watch the talk
12:07
片段
ClipsSix clips, cut by the artist from the talk.
Each opens on YouTube.
TEDxYongkang · Clip
I handed in my notice
0:51
TEDxYongkang · Clip
Why the rarest medium
為什麼我選擇這麼冷門的媒材
0:45
More from the talk
- 0:49A lesson from the fair floor 亞洲審美 vs 歐洲審美，我在展場學到的一課
- 0:48They said I didn't look the part
- 0:43The courage not to fit in 勇氣，不做那個合群的人
- 0:43One artist, two labels 兩件作品，兩種標籤
- 0:58One pursuit, ten years 一件事做十年
- 0:51Must an artist forever wait? 藝術家只能被動等待？
- 0:40Life is a game Redesigning the rules of an art career.
- 0:46Where art meets commerce 藝術商業，為什麼我選擇與品牌聯名
- 0:51The power of stillness 在焦慮的時代，寧靜是一種力量
- 0:54A decade on, they had vanished 藝術不能談錢？那賣畫算什麼？
TEDxYongkang auditorium. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
藏家之聲
VoicesArtists and collectors on the work.
Recorded on the stand at ONE ART Taipei. Each line is the speaker's own.
Classic beauty.
Chris
This piece by artist Ku Chi-Chun is indeed very special.
Ann Yang 楊淑鈴
講座
SpeakingThe talk, and the lecture hall.
- 2025TEDxYongkang, Tainan Speaker · The Power of Devoting a Lifetime to One Pursuit
- 2026Shih Hsin University, Taipei career lecture
- LecturesLectures for listed companies and museums single sessions through represented artists; courses listed under Representation
Speaking enquiry
Ku now directs two art organisations and speaks or teaches for listed companies and museums; a single session is placed with a suitable artist represented by DE Global Art Agency.
國際報導
Press and listingsThe record abroad.
- 2022ITSLIQUID, Italy Interview: Ku Chi-Chun, by Luca Curci, on the ANIMA MUNDI exhibition in Venice
- 2025TED.com TEDxYongkang speaker listing
- 2025TEDx Talks official recording, The Power of Devoting a Lifetime to One Pursuit
- 2024Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Germany Artist Index (PDF), booth G6
- 2024Rhein-Main.Eurokunst, Germany fair preview, exhibitor list
Calligraphy is both a text and a picture.
電視
BroadcastOn air.
- 2015Osaka ytv 「大阪ほんわかテレビ」, Japan a Taiwan artists special, with Ku Chi-Chun
Journal
ALEA, revue internationale d'art et de recherche (ISSN 3130-477X), peer-reviewed and open access, in French and English, is published by the association from 253 rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, and edited by Dr Marie Goehner-David of the University of Strasbourg. Its call for papers is carried by ArtHist.net, the University of Pennsylvania and Calenda.
DE Global Art Agency / ALEA
Press kit
A biography, three approved photographs and the studio's contact details, on request. Interview and speaking requests are answered from the Taipei studio.
Request the press kit藝術之夜
EveningsOpenings, auctions and evenings.
