Ciwas Tahos (also known as Anchi Lin 林安琪) is a visual artist of Atayal descent from Taiwan. Working across performance, moving image, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation, her body-centred practice interweaves Atayal worldviews to claim self-determined space and presence.

Ciwas holds an MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University (Canada). Her work explores cultural and gender identity, using the body as a vessel to trace linguistic and cultural experiences of displacement—opening pathways toward new ways of understanding, remembering, and relating.

Her most notable project, Finding Pathways to Temahahoi, is a multifaceted, ongoing series that reimagines and seeks the potential spaces of Temahahoi—an oral Atayal story about a group of queer women who once lived deep within the mountains, who could communicate with bees, sustain themselves by eating smoke, and become pregnant by gusts of wind. Through this work, Ciwas activates the cultural and geographic dimensions of queer belonging, using the oral story as a lens to imagine life beyond the heteronormative world. Ultimately, she intends to activate a sense of belonging for diasporic Temahahoi descendants across time and place.

Ciwas has been selected for a 1-year artists' residency program as the visual arts fellow at the DAAD in 2026. Recently, she has exhibited her work at the Discoveries program at Art Basel Hong Kong (2026), Manif D’Art – La Biennale de Québec 2026, Le Ceol at the La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo, Australia, Sharjah Biennial 16: TO CARRY, and Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ, and performed at the Liveworks Festival in Sydney, Australia (2025).

In 2023, she was awarded the Biannual Prize of the Pulima Art Award and selected as the inaugural artist for the Australia–Taiwan Friendship Year Arts Exchange Partnership. Ciwas also served as guest curator for the 2022 and 2023 ADAM Artist Lab at the Taipei Performing Arts Centre.




林安琪，族名 Ciwas Tahos，視覺藝術家，現居於台灣台北與澳洲墨爾本之間。她的創作橫跨表演、動態影像、網路空間、陶藝與動力裝置，透過以身體為核心的實踐，交織出泰雅族的世界觀， 以主體性的姿態開闢屬於酷兒族群的存在空間。

Ciwas 擁有台北藝術大學的新媒體藝術碩士學位，以及加拿大西門菲莎大學的視覺藝術學士學位。她的創作關注文化與性別認同，並以身體作為媒介，追索語言與文化位移的經驗，從中開展出嶄新的理解、記憶與連結的方式。

她最具代表性的計畫 《找尋迭瑪哈霍伊的路徑》 是一個多面向且持續進行中的創作系列，重構並探索 Temahahoi 的潛在所在——這是來自泰雅族的口述故事，講述一群居住在深山中的酷兒女性，她們能與蜜蜂溝通，以煙霧維生，並可由風孕育後代。透過這項創作，Ciwas試圖激活酷兒歸屬感的文化與地理層面，並以這段口述故事作為想像超越異性戀主流世界的透鏡。最終，她期望喚起對於散居各地、真實或虛構的 Temahahoi 後裔們（性少數族群們）的歸屬感，穿越時空，建立連結。

Ciwas 入選為 2026 年度德國學術交流資訊中心（DAAD）視覺藝術駐地研究員，為期一年的藝術家駐村計畫。近年，她展出於香港巴塞爾藝術展「藝術探新」（2026）、魁北克雙年展 Manif D’Art（2026）、沙迦雙年展 16 「前載而行」（2025）、以及夏威夷三年展 Hawai‘i Triennial 「ALOHA NŌ」（2025）和參與澳洲雪梨的 Liveworks Festival演出展出。

2023 年，她榮獲 Pulima 藝術獎雙年大獎，並獲選為「澳洲—台灣友誼年藝術交流計畫」首位駐村藝術家。同時，Ciwas 亦於 2022 與 2023 年擔任臺北表演藝術中心 ADAM Artist Lab 的客座策展人。