Swintak was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1977. Approaching the world as her studio, she travels to various locations and improvises projects in response to a given site, often using materials or resources found on location. Her past large-scale projects include building the most banal rollercoaster ever made in the head office of an energy drink corporation, moving an entire house by hand carrying it without the aid of machinery, building a full-size ship through collective improvisation in lieu of a blue print or plan, renovating a large city dumpster into a luxury hotel, and boiling her body into a broth that was served to over one hundred people.
Swintak graduated from NSCAD University in 2003.She has exhibited at galleries, festivals and museums across Canada and internationally. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Canada Council International Residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, a fellowship at the Headlands Centre for the Arts in San Francisco, and a Chalmers Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council. While in residence at Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Swintak will be stealing 100 waters. Traveling to various sites across the island, she will collect different types of water (such as found water, dew, tap water, ocean mist, spring water), and carry them back to the gallery where they will be exhibited alongside a video of the process of gathering them. Water is both the most abundant and precious thing on earth. Without water there is no life. Inspired by the rich variety of water in Taiwan, the collection of 100 Stolen Waters functions as a portrait of the island. The list of waters becomes a type of poem; a brief meditation on the most vital and vanishing resource of the planet. To whom does it belong?

Artist Talk ｜ 2013.05.29 (Wed.)，15:30 （Multimedia Room）

Open Studio ｜ 2013.06.08 (Sat.) (Studio&Curator's Office)

Workshop ｜ 2013.06.11 (Tue.)，13:30 (1 1/2F Gallery)

Exhibition Date ｜ 2013.06.11～06.16 (1 1/2F Gallery)