Cai Guo Jie is a multidisciplinary artist whose work interrogates the politics of land, boundary, and identity. Since 2004, he has critically examined cadastral error and property law through projects such as Error Signing, reframing overlooked margins as sites of resistance. His ongoing Half‑Field Plan functions as a spatial guerrilla practice: interpreting institutional error, generating critical space, and transforming interstitial margins into arenas of negotiation and collective imagination.
Cai’s practice extends from urban governance to rural fieldwork, where he traces poetic, non‑technical boundary markers and materializes them through found objects and installations, exposing the tension between standardized measurement and lived spatial memory. Attentive to marginalized communities and environmental justice, he situates land ownership within broader social and political contexts, questioning the power structures embedded in real estate development and their impact on human rights.
He was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Kaohsiung Art Award and has exhibited internationally at the Taiwan Biennial (2022), Istanbul Mediations Biennial (2023), Ulaanbaatar Biennial (2025), and Cerveira International Art Biennial (2026).
