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2Weeks 異度空間 #1
時間：2018.2.24 – 3.11，週二至週日 13:00 – 19:00，228當日不開放。
㊟ 這是一個過程性展示，依照下列三階段進行，歡迎於開放時間參觀
☞ 第一階段：2.24 – 3.02 從工作室轉變至夜店
☞ 第二階段：3.03(六) 20:00 – 23:59 樹洞不說話派對。Lineup: Ian, Betty Apple and more.
☞ 第三階段：3.04 – 3.11 派對後呈現
3.10(六) 15:00 – 16:30 將舉行藝術家羅智信與藝文工作者吳牧青的對談。
地點：台北當代藝術中心（TCAC），台北市保安街49巷11號（捷運大橋頭站）
羅智信 –〈Like a Urinal in a Nightclub，像是一個夜店的小便斗〉
你匆匆來去，我蹲在那，聽你們沈默或交談，自陶或社交，相互介紹過名字，今後便不再往來。我分析著你吃了與喝了什麼，從一種金黃色液體變成另外一種金黃色液體，你像是顆濾心，物質穿越過你便成為你的一部份，而我負責解讀成分。你的秘密和我一起很安全，像是對一個樹洞講話一樣，大家都知道樹洞是不說話的啊。
──台北某間夜店廁所牆上的留言
這是一個小便斗以第一人稱的口吻所做的獨白。
小便斗作為一個「被通過的物」、一個「濾芯」、一個「保守秘密的人」，總有能力隱身於角落，安靜且溫柔的等待。
小便斗也影射至人的身體（身體同樣也作為一個被通過的物），而廁所除了是一個具有特殊功能性的空間之外，它既私密但也公開的特質，讓它也被視為相遇與社交的場域。透過視覺、身體感與氣味，人的活動也在這些作品中被描述。
「然而秘密是不可能被守住的，它們用另外一種形式找到出口。」
像是化學實驗一樣，秘密穿越過「樹洞」而成為另外一種物質而存在。這化學變化的過程就像是「加密」、「編碼」與重新「解碼」的歷程，而計畫中反覆出現的幾種色彩，在這裡做為實驗進程的顯影與識別。
藝術家簡介 ——
羅智信（b. 1984）的創作擅長捕捉日常中微妙的片刻，凝結並放大
關於《2 Weeks 異度空間》——
TCAC 2018 推出全新系列《2 Weeks 異度空間》過程型展覽，將圍繞著年度主題「藝術實驗室」，借重以往科學研究領域在實驗室進行的各種實驗、重複、紀錄與分析的過程，以空間做為最主要的媒介，重新想像不確定性（uncertainty）、場景（the scene）與時間軸（timeline）於藝術實踐中的意義與可能性，呈現科學與藝術的關聯與可類比性。本系列展覽將由一藝術家／策展人進駐兩個星期，根據個人過往創作與研究，進行全新現地（site-specific）製作，將空間本身在兩週時間內轉化成一個甚至數個場景，並且策劃面對觀眾公共參與的各種活動。
場景（the scene）本身盛載了觀看者對空間的特定想像，這種想像透過觀看等各種身體感知展開。在一個擺滿器材的實驗室中，是否只能進行科學實驗？如同科學家利用各種方法改變實驗物的狀態，《2 Weeks 異度空間》系列展覽著重在改變空間原有的功能，利用空間場景與敘事性的累進與疊加，打開 TCAC 作為一個具有公共性的藝術替代空間的可能性。此外，本系列展覽希望透過使用數位媒體與網路作為觀看的工具與形式之一，同步於實體空間與虛擬數位空間進行，延伸觀看的時間向度與空間向度。把展覽與場景的生產過程，透過數位社群媒體平台的散播，轉變成另外一種展示形式。探討非物質性（immaterial）的「過程」、「場景」、「表演性」、「敘事性」等「物」該如何被展示？而我們獲得的資訊又是如何被觀看的方式所形塑？
#2WeeksatTCAC #2Weeks
展覽過程將持續透過 Instagram 發佈：https://www.instagram.com/taipei.contemporary.art.center/
企業合作：禾餘麥酒
2 Weeks #1
Date: 2018.2.24(Sat) – 3.11(Sun), 13:00 – 19:00. Open from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on February 28.
㊟ This is a process-based exhibition. 3 stages are presented as the following schedule. Come visit at the opening hours.
☞ Stage 1: 2018.02.24 – 03.02 From Studio to Nightclub
☞ Stage 2: 2018.03.03(Sat) 20:00 – 23:59
Party: Tree Hole Does Not Speak, Lineup: Ian, Betty Apple and more.
☞ Stage 3: 2018.03.04 – 03.11 After Party Presentation
A conversation between artist Luo Jr-Shin and art critic Muching Wu is held on 3.10(SAT)15:00 – 16:30.
Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC)
Like a Urinal in a Nightclub by Luo Jr-Shin
You came and went. Here I was, taking in your silence and your chatter. Names were exchanged, titles never mentioned again. I thought about what you just consumed and what you were letting out, some golden liquid turning into another. You were like a filter, matters passed through you and became a part of you. I am but an ingredient interpreter, your secrets are safe with me. It would just be like confiding to a treehole – we all know that treeholes stay silent.
— Note on the wall in a restroom of a Taipei nightclub
This is a monologue of a urinal.
A urinal is an object that allows fluid to pass through. A filter and a keeper of secrets, it resides inconspicuously in the corner, tenderly awaiting.
A urinal reflects the human body, a vehicle through which matters travel. A restroom, although with a specific functionality, exhibits a duality both private and public that makes room for socialization. Human activities, via a series of visual, physical, and olfactory stimulation, are ultimately reflected in the artwork.
“Secrets cannot be kept forever. They find a way out.”
Like a science experiment, “secrets” pass through “treeholes” to assume new identities. This transformation is not unlike the process of encoding, encryption, and decoding. The recurring set of colors serves as a form of index in this experiment.
Artist Bio
Luo Jr-Shin was born in 1984, Taiwan. His practice attempts to capture ephemeral moments and often engages in common objects, merging and intensifying incompatibility and absurdity in daily life. Through the rich connotation embedded in these found objects, an alternative reality is reproduced. The viewers are invited to notice the trace of the daily life and its slight displacement from the origin, stimulating their imagination with a sense of humor. Luo was nominated for Taipei Award in 2012. His work has been presented at Taipei Biennial 2014, Taiwan; Queens Museum, New York; Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; Hubei Museum of Art, China and Asia Cultural Center, Korea.
About 2 Weeks
Centered on the TCAC 2018 annual theme of “Art Lab,” the program 2 Weeks is a series of process-based exhibitions focusing on the narrative and performativity of space. 2 Weeks will invite one artist or one curator to occupy the TCAC for two weeks. Each artist or curator will make new site-specific works based on his/her own past research and practices. One or more scenes will be created and various public activities will be held during their residencies.
A scene usually carries viewers’ imaginations toward a certain space, with imagination mediated by viewers’ perceptions. We wonder, in a laboratory equipped with all kinds of apparatuses, if the science experiment is the only activity that takes place. 2 Weeks attempts to address space as medium, and to imagine the possible outcomes of generating uncertainty, scene and timeline. During the given timeframe, not only will the steps of conducting experiments(repetition, documentation and analysis) in a science lab be examined through artistic practices, but also the connections and analogies between art and science experiments will be presented. Like the different approaches used by scientists to change the phases of matter, the various functions of space will be performed at the TCAC. By accumulating narratives and scenes in space within the given timeframe, the potential of an alternative public space is unlocked.
In order to extend the viewing timeframe and its dimension, this series of exhibitions simultaneously takes place in real space and virtual space by including social media as part of the viewing channel. The images of exhibition-making and scene-making that are disseminated on social media platforms will then be turned into another form of exhibition. Viewers and participants are provoked to think about think how the immaterial, such as process, scene, performativity, and narrative, is exhibited. How is perceived information shaped by ways of looking?
#2WeeksatTCAC #2Weeks
The exhibition is constantly on view on Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/taipei.contemporary.art.center/
The exhibition is made possible by Alechemist.
