水谷藝術 Waley Art (Taiwan)
Ubicado en Taipei, Taiwán, Shuigu Art es un espacio alternativo compuesto por jóvenes curadores y artistas. Tiene cinco pisos sobre el nivel del suelo y un piso, cada piso tiene un estilo de espacio diferente y una tonalidad de exhibición adecuada. Desde su inicio en agosto de 2014, ha exhibido artes visuales basadas en planos, vídeos, instalaciones, performances y esculturas.
En la segunda mitad de 2015, el proyecto aumentará el número de artistas en el pueblo y se espera que proporcione un diálogo continuo entre el desarrollo cultural y la creación artística. Además de las exposiciones internas en el espacio, Shuigu Art ha estado preocupado por la historia cultural de Nanwanhua y Taipa, y trabaja con artistas y grupos sociales para llevar a cabo acciones y proyectos artísticos, abriendo el diálogo artístico entre la ciudad vieja y la comunidad.
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水谷藝術位於台灣台北市，是一結合年輕策展人及藝術家組成之替代空間，地上五層樓地下一層樓，每層樓有不同的空間風格與適合的展覽調性。自2014年8月成立以來，展出平面、錄像、裝置、行為、雕塑等以視覺藝術為基礎的展演。
2015年下半年規畫於空間內部增加藝術家駐村的項目，並期許提供文化發展與藝術創作的持續對話。除了空間內部展覽外，水谷藝術長期以來關注南萬華加蚋仔的文化歷史，並偕同藝術家與社造團體進行藝術行動與計畫，開啟舊城區與社區居民之藝術對話可能
Artistas y obras
Orlando Huang
Orlando Huang is a graduate student at Taipei National University of the Arts, majoring in Trans-disciplinary Arts. She seeks to discuss how queer in Taiwan present to be queer before the Gay/lesbian/queer movements and translating queer theory flourished in Taiwan. Her thoughts on these were began from a question that would there be a problema when having queer movements and queer theory from the western world introduced to Taiwan as resources and tactics for local queer movements and queer theory without considering the different social context? Can the queer movements experiences and queer theory originating from the United States or Europe context fit in Taiwan perfectly? Do we identify who we were just by the meaning defined by western world? Or, can we generate our own thinking on sexuality and gender while using these theory, rather tan let the queer movements and queer theory from western world become just another field that in it we self-conlonizined.
Within her academic background on sociology, she interviewed lesbian who experience the time Taiwan under Japanese rule and the period of Martial law in a field investigation way, unmasking how she maintain her relation after marriage, and providing life narratives for Taiwanese queer history.
Artworks:
1. Goodbye, my youth 2018Movie18min
Goodbye, my youth shows how overflowing emotions found their support outside the logic blueprint of the society. As it turned out, the support came from the folk religions that complement the social system.
2. Desire of Living 2015 Single Channle Video 1’10
Amaryllis, the Chinese name is taken from the flower of its growing posture "lonely" and "standing". This flower likes enough sunshine. If the sunshine is insufficient, the leaves are easy to fall and fall, and the flowering is also poor, so it is not suitable for indoors. The closet without sunlight and space, not suitable for plant growth, artist tried to plant amaryllis, and record the process of germination to flowering for one year, and complete the video work <"Before and before..." Desire>. She symbolizes gay groups with amaryllis. "Although she is lonely, she still stands alive in the world." Even if the environment is not friendly, gay friends still brave to be themselves and develop beautiful love.
Trance Zone Family
Trance Family re-integrate and deconstruct the symbol of Taiwan's cultural symbols, although it is characterized by the application of folklore and subculture. But package by virtues and goodness that have been generally recognized, which main body used the cultural summary that everyone has been instilled and trance it into music images of different texts, even extended to entities. Perform a step to blend variation. The way they conversion comes from the cultural "meme".
A “meme” is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
Artworks:
1. MOEMOE 2016 Experimental Music Video 3’29
The content of this song is to describe a so-called OTAKU (Otaku), which developed by ACG group's love from Japan's pedophilia of beauty girl pedophilia. "MOEMOE" is pronounced in Chinese, and the use of phonetic "ㄝ" is also to indicate the linguistic representation of the cultural system. The songs are dressed in sailor suits and maid costumes, and the background uses a doll image that is personally photographed in the underground streets of Taipei, indicating the sub-culture post-colonial status of the Japanese second generation for Taiwanese young people.
2. FACEPALM MIMI 2018 Experimental Music Video 3’10
This song is derived from the hustle and bustle of life and becomes a more popular characterization, that is, the toxic coffee package (remarks) popular on the Internet. The popular online language stupid cats also have sly faces in foreign countries, which is also a dumbfound online language. The theme of this series also includes the process of changing the name "Meow Meow" into "Mimi." However, when returning to the role of the theme, the use of this association makes the subjectivity return to performance. The style is inexplicable and enjoyable. The TV of the chorus is also like the meaning of brainwashing.
Remarks: Poisonous coffee packaging: The color and smell of toxic coffee is no different from ordinary coffee powder. The main ingredient is that the ecstasy is put into the wáter to make the human central nervous system. The blood system will be extremely excited, and there will be more than shaking his head, behavior is out of control, and thoughts are paranoid. The drug will quickly become addictive. Its packaging is to attract Young people to buy poison, and the cartoon graphics or beverage logos are printed on the packaging. In recent years, the new-type drug coffee bags look like demons, and the clown series is the largest.
3. MEOWSONG 2018 Experimental Music Video 1’43
Through the process of making a fake packaged beverage, the hypothetical imaginary advertisement planned the first experimental work, and at the same time completed the same-name song on the same day of shooting, and also created a link of multiple symbolic concepts that are refreshing.
4. MEOWMEOWMEMEMUMI 2018 Experimental Music Video 3’06
In combination with the theme of meme, the link that meow meow itself has, such as the Internet's alternative fashion, relinks into the current cultural definition. The Mimi is from the Internet community, the source is A member of the mobile game " Battle Girl High School" is called "Mianmu Michelle" (remarks). Her mantra is often inexplicably like the words "Mumi~" and "Heartbeat bonbon", and is described by the villagers as mentally retarded, but it has also become a synonym for brainlessness, turning these cultural totems into one and the same. Through the traits and performance of the content, it becomes a suitable symbol of the cause.
Remarks: The Battle Women's Academy is an action RPG, which is designed to recapture the polluted earth from the mysterious invader "LOST". The story of the ordinary girls who are studying in the school and fight back with LOST. “Michelle” set to like cute things, loves to affectionate, afraid of lonely. The words which spoken often exceed normal person's thinking. When emotional, her eyes will show "love eyes."
Occasionally, when she speaks, she will give a vocabulary of "Mumi" when she is extremely emotional, extremely sad or cursed, this auxiliary words to conduct dialogue.
Pacific Romance- Yu Jun Ye & Alexis Mailles
it's a performance art project about a fictional band and love story initiate by YuJun Ye and Alexis Mailles. Somewhere between Asia and America. virtually lost in the middle of the Pacific, the characters use dialogue to make their story exists. Mix of electronic music, rock and love song, it's a trip in a soap opera which was never shot. A soundtrack for a corny love film which was never edited.
YuJun Ye , Artist ,Curator independent，instant42 art space director. She had studied in France since 2001, and obtained a Master’s degree of Diplôme National Suprieurexpression Plastique from Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Arts de Paris- Cergy and a Master’s degree of Art et Media Numérique from Paris1–Sorbonne. Her work ranges from performance arts, video installations to sound performances, employing multiple ways of storytelling. Recent themes involve immigration issues and breaking the boundary in-between art and everyday life.She had joined the international art group Réseau Artskool, residing at Main d’oeuvre Art Center in France (2007) and resided at the Treasure Hill Artist Village (2010). 18th street art centre in L.A(2014).
Casula powerhouse art centre in Sydney,Works published in Paris, Berlin, Seoul, Hong Kong, Busan, Shanghai, Sydney, Chongqing, Tokyo, Nagano, Los Angeles and so on.Important exhibitions such as: New World Order (Casula Powerhouse art center, Sydney, 2016), Chongqing Youth Biennale (2015), N minutes Art Festival (Shanghai, 2015), solo exhibition El sueno de Los Angeles (18th street art center, Los Angeles, 2014),She is director of art space called “instant 42” inTaiwan, considering constructing and managing a space as a form in creation. This space is a complex art space with 3 major functions, art exhibition, studio, and artist-in--residence.
Alexis Mailles was born in La Rochelle 1978, and is currently living and working in France and East Asia. Alexis Mailles has worked in digital and analogue technologies for years, producing hybrid art installations that make references to Arte Povera and cyberpunk aesthetics. He taught at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and has exhibited widely in Taiwan, Paris, and Shanghai.
Artworks:
1.Unit(y?) 2015 Experimental Music Video 3’48
A diverse set of measurement systems creates interesting protocols of data exchange, built to achieve proper communication. Love as the lowest common denominator across all of these meeting grounds.
Travel footage from the U.S and Taiwan serves as a background for arguments that cannot be measured.
2. PR Inc. 2016 Experimental Music Video 2’11
When reality becomes a parameter of the global story we tell, we sometimes need to deny it in order to fit the picture. Luckily we are already well-trained in denial from long term love stories. We can be proud, we are still well-adapted.
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