Chen Tianzhuo (b.1985) graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, receiving his MFA from the Chelsea College of Art and Design. As a younger generation artist, Tianzhuo Chen skillfully works between the artistic disciplines of installation, performance, video, drawing on paper and photography. Many of his artworks require others’ participation or that of the audience so to take the form of a “happening.” Chen Tianzhuo’s strong artistic purpose allows him to more freely gather and utilize a diverse range of media. He mixes his well versed knowledge of elements and symbols found in religion, subculture, popular culture, and dance in order to juxtapose the atmosphere, and cause the audience/participants to transcend both superficial sates of the body and spirit. Ultimately, arriving at, what the artist himself has referred to, as a “state of madness.”