2020 台灣雙年展平行展－技術變形記
Date:
2020/10/23 – 2021/01/03 (Wednesday to Sunday: 14:00-20:00, Tuesday: Reservation Only)
Venue:
The tragedy of Metamorphosis begins with the transformation of the protagonist, Gregor, into vermin. Kafka details the fact of metamorphosis and the recognition process of subjective perception by depicting the changes in experiences of body and the use of space, and gradually introduces the twisted meanings of the world and others, creating strange and horrifying dramatic tension of the industrial capitalist society.
Metamorphosis is the essential technique of art creation. Through rearrangement and reassembly, as well as different structures of same materials, artists use those media commonly found in daily life to create a certain alienation of perceptive experience and aesthetics within the contrast, reconnecting the relationship and awareness between individuals and the contemporary society. This re-shaping technique desperately points to reimagination and building of spatial production, rather than pseudo-scientific following or instrumental visualization. Poetic criticism cannot distant people from anthropocentrism, but creates new social relationship through reconstruction of vehicles.
Henan 8 continues its usual party-like tone and technical exploration, inviting young people from Kaohsiung living in northern Taiwan, and those from other places living in Kaohsiung, to put forth alternative discourses of locality through their physical experiences of moving and travelling. The gallery on 3F begins with rebuilding of social interaction, chronicling Henan 8’s past, and how it presents the contradiction of abstract space and possibilities of others through playing; the second-floor gallery focuses on the metamorphosis of physical perceptions, in order to reinterpret the changes in perceptions of reginal landscapes and social issues; the first-floor gallery reexamines through imagination of aliens and cyborgs another geographical and historical narrative of nationality and network.
Architecture is the technique of constructing the world; enjoyment is not just momentary spatial experience, but refers to a kind of agency of spatial practices that is a right of citizens. Technological Metamorphosis begins with a three-story house, and through technological reinvention, it presents different production models and social relationships through living beings. This is what Henan 8 strived for Kaohsiung over the past two years, as well as a phased experimental manifestation of artists’ exchange with the local society.
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