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Artist-Run Space & Residency, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, Since 2017

吴琼 Voyo Woo

ACENTRICSPACE第194位驻地艺术家

2026年七月驻地艺术家
吴琼

No. 194 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

2026 July Resident Artist

Voyo Woo

 

 关于艺术家 About the Artist 

（美国 United States）
Instagram: @voyowoo

吴琼的创作将中国传统剪纸拓展为沉浸式、参与式装置，并融合雕塑、表演、声音与生物反馈技术。她关注艺术如何将“平和与安定”培育为一种社会基石，从而滋养同理心、善意与人与人之间的连接，并探索人类、自然与科技系统和平共存的可能。
吴琼曾获2025年新泽西州艺术委员会雕塑类个人艺术家奖学金，并入选纽约艺术基金会移民艺术家导师计划。她的作品曾在蒙特克莱尔艺术博物馆、上海奉贤博物馆、卡岑艺术中心、白宫游客中心及Arts 14C画廊展出。2025年，她还入选了上海国际纸艺双年展。
Voyo Woo is a Chinese American multidisciplinary artist whose practice expands traditional Chinese paper cutting into immersive, participatory installations that integrate sculpture, performance, sound, and biofeedback technologies. Her work explores how art can cultivate calm as a form of social infrastructure and create conditions that support empathy, kindness, connection, and peaceful coexistence across human, natural, and technological systems.
Woo is a recipient of the 2025 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Sculpture and a mentee in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. Her work has been presented at the Montclair Art Museum, Shanghai Fengxian Museum, Katzen Arts Center, the White House Visitor Center, and the Gallery 14C. In 2025, she was also selected to participate in a juried international paper art biennale in Shanghai.
 过往作品  Previous Works 
 
Head in the Clouds
回收的树木、纸雕、脑波仪、亚克力板、可编程的LED灯、3D打印花卉支架、剪纸元素、伺服电机和电线和电线
Reclaimed tree, paper sculptures, EEG headbands, acrylic sheets, programmed LED lights, 3D printed floral support, paper cutting elements, servos and wires 
26 feet long x 10.9 feet tall x 14.2 feet wide
2026
 
《Head in the Clouds》（2026）是一件沉浸式、生物讯号响应型装置作品。作品由悬浮的手工纸云，以及一棵以回收美国黑樱桃树干制成的中央“生命之树”构成。手工剪裁的花朵、昆虫与真菌，随着编程灯光和轻柔的机械运动缓缓绽放。
在引导式体验中，参与者佩戴脑波仪，其脑电活动会实时影响灯光的“呼吸”节奏，以及剪纸蝴蝶与花朵的开合运动。作品融合传统手工艺与响应式技术，探索平和与安定如何成为一种社会基础，滋养善意、共情与人与人之间的连接，并为观众创造一个宁静、内省，感受个体与集体关系的空间。
曾展出于：新泽西州 Project 14C、纽约 J&M Studios／NARS Foundation。
 
Head in the Clouds (2026) is an immersive, bio-responsive installation featuring suspended paper clouds and a central “Tree of Life” made from a reclaimed American black cherry trunk. Hand-cut flowers, insects, and fungi are animated through programmed light and gentle kinetic movement.
 
During guided sessions, participants wear EEG headbands, allowing their brainwave activity to influence the installation’s light and movement in real time. Blending traditional handcraft with responsive technology, the work explores calm, reflection, and the connection between individual and collective experience.
 
Public Showcase: Arts 14C Jersey City, J&M Studio/NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NYC

 

Gratitude Dinner

脑波仪、低音炮、培养皿、ESP电路板、手工剪纸装置、电线、特别定制餐桌
EEG headbands, subwoofers, petri dishes, ESP boards, handcut paper installations, wires, customized dining table and chairs
25 feet x 14 feet x 9 feet tall
2025

这是一件沉浸式、参与式装置艺术。十位彼此陌生的参与者围坐在一张餐桌旁，每人佩戴脑波仪，其脑电活动通过水动力学装置转化为不断变化的水纹。参与者专注地为坐在对面的人表达感恩与美好祝愿，随后交换各自联想到的意象，以此象征性地传递关怀、善意与利他的心意，并建立人与人之间的联结。
整个体验发生在一座大型手工剪纸装置之中，其造型宛如一间带有壁炉、窗户、吊灯与肖像画的居家餐厅。这个私密而熟悉的空间，将共同用餐转化为一次关于善意、感恩与连接的实验和仪式。作品暗示，即使身处陌生环境，感恩与善意依然能够滋养同理心，促进人与人之间的联系，并延伸为一种属于“人类大家庭”的共同归属感。
公共展览：新泽西州 Project 14C；蒙特克莱尔艺术博物馆。
An immersive, participatory artwork where ten strangers gather at a shared table, each wearing an EEG headband that transforms their intentions into rippling water patterns through water cymatics. Participants focus on gratitude or positive wishes for the person across from them, then exchange visualizations—symbolically sharing care and building connection. The experience unfolds inside a large-scale, hand-cut paper installation resembling a domestic dining room with a fireplace, windows, chandelier, and portraits. This intimate environment turns dining into a meditation on kinship, suggesting that even among strangers, gratitude can nurture empathy, healing, and a sense of extended human family.
Public showcase: Arts 14C, Jersey City 2025 Nov 1st to 2026, Montclair Art Museum
 
The Eighth Dimension
脑波仪、无线耳机、投影映射、声音景观设计、LED灯、手工剪纸雕塑、支持NFC的贝壳、镜子
EEG Headbands, wireless headphones, projection mapping, soundscape design, LED lights, handcut paper sculptures, NFC-enabled seashells, mirrors
30 feet long x15 feet wide x 9 feet tall
2025
《The Eighth Dimension》是一件冥想式沉浸装置艺术，将参与者带入一个由自身脑电波实时塑造的水下世界。无线脑波仪将参与者的脑电活动转化为波浪状线条，以及从地面延伸至天花板的投影影像，并配合引导式冥想，让参与者舒适地躺在瑜伽垫上，进入缓慢而专注的体验状态。以缓慢、细致的手工过程制作而成的海底生物主题纸雕环绕整个空间，将有机形态与科技元素融合在一起。冥想结束后，
参与者会收到一条个性化信息和一份数字脑电波分析报告，帮助他们观察这次体验如何影响自身的平静状态，并使心理活动、专注力与冥想之间原本难以察觉的联系变得可见。
公共展览：纽约Usagi画廊，2025年10月；蒙特克莱The Space画廊，2025年11月；蒙特克莱The Space画廊，2026年1月
The Eighth Dimension is a meditative immersive installation that transports participants into an underwater world shaped in real time by their own brainwaves. Wireless EEG headbands translate live brainwaves into rippling wavelines, floor-to-ceiling projection mapping, and a guided meditation while participants lie down comfortably on yoga mats. Intricate hand-cut paper sculptures frame the space, blending organic forms with technology. After the meditation, participants receive a personalized message and a digital brainwave analysis, allowing them to see how the experience influenced their inner calm and making visible the often-hidden connection between mental state and meditation.
Public Showcase: Usagi Brooklyn, October 2025, The Space Montclair, November 2025, The Space Montclair, January 2026
 
Breathing the In-Between
手工制作的面具： Tyvek纸、树莓派电脑、电线、LCD屏幕，行为艺术
Handcrafted mask: tyvek paper, Raspberry Pi, wires, LCD screen, performance
27 in. x 21 in. x 5 in.(13 x 10 x 5 in for the mask alone)
2min:30 seconds
2026
表演者：Kanami Kusajima  
摄像师：Alex Pavljuk  
技术咨询：Matthew Yacavone, Kamila Castro
《Breathing the In-Between》由一件可穿戴的全脸纸质面具和一段影像表演组成。面具中央设有一处可开启的空洞，打开后露出一块微型 LED 屏幕，循环播放湖面日出与远山起伏等自然景象。面具内部的 LED 灯光与表演者的呼吸节奏同步明灭，仿佛面具本身也在呼吸。
配套影像记录了一位舞者佩戴面具进行的表演。人的呼吸、光线与屏幕中的自然景观在缓慢而重复的动作中相互交织，形成一种冥想般的循环体验，并探索身体、科技与自然之间流动而模糊的边界。
Performer: Kanami Kusajima
Videographer: Alex Pavljuk
Creative Technologist: Matthew Yacavone, Kamila Castro
Breathing the In-Between consists of one wearable, full-face paper mask accompanied by a video performance. The mask features delicate, hand-cut paper floral and insect sculptures. At the center of the mask is a void that opens to reveal a mini LED screen displaying nature imagery, such as a rising sun reflecting on a lake, with rows of mountains in the background. The mask is illuminated with LED lights that “breathe” in sync with the performer’s respiration. The accompanying video documents a dancer wearing the mask, where human breath, light, and projected landscapes merge into a meditative, looping performance exploring the boundaries between body, technology, and nature.
 
What Grows After the Forest
捡到的木材、机械部件、LED灯、电子元件
Found wood, mechanical components, LED light, electronics
25 × 27 × 5 in
2026
三朵手工剪裁的纸花从一块拾得的木片中缓缓绽放，花朵下方嵌有如呼吸般明灭的 LED 灯光，在生物生命与技术复制之间形成鲜明对比。作品由此反思木材的珍贵、森林的消逝，以及机器是否真的能够取代维系我们生存的生命形态与生态系统。
Two hand-cut paper flowers with breathing LED light embedded under the paper emerge from a fragment of found wood, contrasting biological life with technological reproduction. The work reflects on the rarity of wood, the destruction of forests, and whether machines can ever replace the ecological systems that sustain us.