Gaoyuan Chen
Selected Work
Shadong Boardgame
Shadong Boardgame is a multiplayer board game that parodies the drinking culture of Shandong Province, China and incorporates elements of performance and ready-made installations. I am trying to engage the public and make them pay attention to and reflect on this bureaucratic and patriarchal cultural phenomenon.
Game ,Installation ,Performance，2021-
Cryptobiosis
Cryptobiosis is an experimental narrative game set in China’s Hengshui model. As a god’s-eye playtester in a high school simulation, you step into the running exercise scene, trace and remember ignored lives under hyper-regulated campus management, complete your exam, and rank worldwide.
Game 2025.11.17
Water Race Cup International Contemporary Art Award
WICAA is a spoof art competition that I have been planning since 2023. I parody the art competitions in the Chinese art world that aim at power and money transactions, and package WICAA in a seemingly professional, international, and large-scale style, intervening and deliberating on issues such as university performance appraisal models, art world evaluation standards, and identity anxiety with a kind of anti-artistic black humour, and dissolving its authority in the midst of absurdity and revelry.
participatory event，2023-4
FCIPC
During COVID-19, I organised an offline racing gaming competition in the panoramic map of my mobile map app. Players will control the movement of the "map car" by tapping the arrow keys on the screen in the panoramic map of the map app, and constantly break the limits of hand speed and internet speed to find the fastest way to victory.
Film, Game, Performance ，2021-11