Traffic Island

Chiang Tai

Chiang Tai is from Taiwan but now lives in Brooklyn. She earned her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2019. She works in installation, mixed media, painting, and video, which make reference to the relationship between space and human behavior and also relate to her political situation and identity. Chiang’s work, “The Traffic Island Series,” is inspired by the few elders in her hometown, Kaohsiung, who always hang out on the traffic island and changed its functions as their garden and senior center. She tries to explore the possibility of the mutual effect between the urban functional space and human behaviors.