CHEN LUO                

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Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360˚, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.
Booklifting


Interactive Publication
2022

‘Booklifting’ unconventionally reconstructs two familiar objects. I collected documentation from my previous workshop—Dance with prints into an accordion book that is attached to a 15-pound dumbbell. The viewer is supposed to input labor to read the book. ‘Booklifting’ activates the space and the body being performative.


Late update in 2025