OUR MISSION
ABOUT CHAOSPACE
Chaospace is a nonprofit art organization based in New York City, dedicated to supporting Asian artists across all disciplines. Our mission is to promote exceptional works by curating concert series, events, and recordings, while providing platforms for artists to present their visions and experiences through workshops and seminars. We foster collaboration by organizing gatherings and forums that encourage cultural exchange and open dialogue, offering artists opportunities to experiment, share, and engage with the public.
Chaospace is a New York City–based nonprofit dedicated to supporting Asian and emerging artists across disciplines through innovative performance, collaboration, and community engagement. Through curated concerts, workshops, and interdisciplinary events, Chaospace creates platforms for underrepresented voices to experiment, connect, and share their stories. The organization fosters a vibrant space where contemporary and experimental music act as catalysts for dialogue, creativity, and collective transformation.
Chaospace’s curations—Controlled Chaotic, DramaEtMusica, Nolja!, New Music Workshop, and Chaospace Records—encourage radical collaboration among composers, improvisers, and interdisciplinary artists. These programs often feature practices such as electroacoustic music, real-time composition, interactive media, experimental theater, spatial sound installations, and participatory performance formats. By integrating technology, movement, sound, and space, Chaospace creates immersive experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and listeners. In parallel, Chaospace builds community through artist-led discussions, educational workshops, and cross-sector partnerships, deepening engagement with both local and global audiences.
OUR TEAM
SHINYA LIN | Executive Director
Shinya Lin is a contemporary music performer-composer-improviser based in New York. For him, art is inseparable from the ordinary lifestyle, people gathered and connected, naturally, and began to realize the idea of life.
Shinya’s vision of founding Chaospace is to create an open-minded multidisciplinary community for Asian artists as curators. Where artists in Chaospace are mutually respected and are able to develop their practices that support their visions, most importantly, a place that gathers exchanging ideas and promotes cultural interactions
CHEN SHUHE YUE | Artistic Director
Chen Shuhe Yue is a composer, soprano, and cross-genre artist. Her creative works incorporate choreographed movement, installation art, multi-media, instrumental practice, and theatrical elements. She frequently performs new vocal music as a soprano, including experimental operas and theater works.
Yue's vision in establishing Chaospace is to cultivate a collaborative interdisciplinary community. Her main focus will be the DramaEtMusica series, featuring music theater works and innovative experimental operas. With this initiative, she aims to advance the arts and expand the boundaries of creative expression.
LEO CHANG
Leo Chang is a Korean improviser, composer and performer. Born in Seoul, Leo lived as an expat in Singapore, Taipei, and Shanghai, until moving to the United States in 2011. His art is an act of home-making inspired by various musical and ideological movements that have sought to question power dynamics and imagine freedom within egalitarian possibilities. His primary methods are free improvisation, written text, graphical notation, and electronic processing. Leo’s projects have been presented and supported by the Vision Festival, Roulette Intermedium, Korea Foundation, Ostrava Days New Music Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn Arts Council, and EMPAC at Rensselaer, among others.
IVY FU
Ivy Fu is a sound artist, curator, and a researcher of surveillance, eavesdropping and sensory spaces currently studying in the Digital Musics program at Dartmouth under Ash Fure and Cesar Alvarez. Using improvisational movements, generative visuals, anti-communicative technology, and homemade circuits, she creates organic sensory dwellings, sentient machines and self-regenerative ecospheres that provide fugitive spaces for identity in crisis, territories that are sonically transgressed, and complex historic and personal narratives that desire to be further examined. She recently completed her first installation as part of the artist duo the universal machine. Their project Ear Zero realized her original prototype of the Deleuzian body without organs, an inverted ear that only annihilates sounds in its listening act, through co-constructing a sentient, womb-like feedback machine. Her works have been featured in The Allen Memorial Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fireland Association of Art, The Shed, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Hashtag gallery, International Contemporary Ensemble, the She Scores music festival, and Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt.