2014.01.04 Talk by Youmna Chlala : Hysteria Begins In The Tongues | 優娜.契拉拉座談：舌尖上爆開的歇斯底里 2pm

0104-優娜契拉拉

優娜.契拉拉座談：舌尖上爆開的歇斯底里

Talk by Youmna Chlala :  Hysteria Begins In The Tongues 

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歇斯底里的空間可謂是一個模糊地帶，它與記憶連結，並受突如其來、無法預知的情感衝擊而開展。當它進駐於你的身體，夢境成為了奇觀式的場景，而其徵候透由身體表露，自身的主體則消失於夢境與各種徵候。這些概念該如何透過戲劇、翻譯、型變和社會雕塑來表達？我將試圖探索這些存於我作品中的概念，並透過對談來開啟新的連結。

講者：優娜.契拉拉

主持人：鄭美雅

講者簡介
優娜.契拉拉 是生於黎巴嫩貝魯特的作家及藝術家，現居於紐約。透過素描、錄像、詩歌及表演等不同媒材來探討命運與建築結構間的關係。她的作品於國際間展出，如：倫敦當代藝術中心、鹿特丹國際影展、奧地利攝影雜誌及紐約Art in General藝廊。她也曾參與Performa Biennal 11 (新視覺藝術表演雙年展)，第一屆德黑蘭巡迴雙年展，以及杜拜藝術專案。

鄭美雅  居住並工作於台北。現為獨立策展人，台北當代藝術中心理事長。曾任台北當代藝術館策展人(2006-2008))。精選策展經歷：「擴增世界」第六屆台北數位藝術節國際邀請展(2011，剝皮寮歷史街區)，「未來事件交易所」（2012，與姚嘉善共同策展，台北當代藝術中心），「遊牧影展錄影藝術特輯」（2010，台北當代藝術中心）。近期展覽計畫:「第六屆皇后雙年展」(2013，與岩崎仁美共同策展，皇后美術館，紐約。)

她關注藝術生產中勞動與價值的交換機制及權力關係，以及藝術機制本身的系統性問題。她試圖討論藝術機構可能的開放性架構，以及它作為一個運作機制，如何作用於藝術體系。據此，她共同參與了台北當代藝術中心的成立及運作，試圖發展出一個開放性架構，以群體合作的模式，凝聚一個藝術社群，並共同營運這個實驗性的獨立機構。

受邀參與講座包括2011曼徹斯特亞洲三年展-「未來機構」，德國萊比錫當代藝術館，亞太三年展（2012）等。近年發表文章散見於典藏今藝術、畫廊雜誌(中國)、藝術與投資(中國)，主編讀本：「歐洲重要嗎？」(2013, 為芭芭拉.史黛娜擔任藝術總監的歐洲n次方計畫之一)。

Talk by Youmna Chlala :  Hysteria Begins In The Tongues 

A hysterical space is an in-between space that is performed by sudden and unexpected paroxysms related to memory. When hysteria inhabits you, identity disappears in the dream and the symptom. The dream is housed in the spectacle and the symptom is manifested in the body. How do these notions function through play, translation, shape-shifting and social-sculpture? I will explore these ideas in my work and by creating new connections through conversation.

Speaker: Youmna Chlala

Host: Meiya CHENG

About Speakers

Youmna Chlala is an artist and a writer born in Beirut and based in New York. Her work investigates the relationship between fate and architecture through drawing, video, prose and performance. She has exhibited internationally including ICA London, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Camera Austria, and Art In General, New York. She has participated in Performa Biennial 11, the first roaming Tehran Biennale and Art Dubai Projects.      website (www.youmnachlala.com)

Meiya CHENG is a freelance curator, and now the chair of Taipei Contemporary Art Center. She lives and works in Taipei. She has worked as the curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2006-2008.) Her selected curated exhibition include : Augmenting the World, (The 6th Taipei Digital Art Festival, international section, 2011)) Trading Futures, (co-curated with Pauline Yao, TCAC, 2012.) Urban Nomad Film Festival video art section (TCAC, 2010.) Exhibit in planning is 6th Queens International (co-curated with Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NYC.)

Cheng focuses on the exchange mechanism of labor and value, and the structural issues in art production. She intends to discuss the possibilities of creating an open structure in institutions, and if such models could serve as a mechanism to create changes in the system. She was invited to participate in forums, seminars include Asia Triennial Manchester (2011),Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and Asia Pacific Triennial (2012.) She has contributed in magazines Artco magazine (Taiwan.) Art and Investment (China) and Broadsheet(Australia). In 2013 she edited the reader “Does Europe Matters?” (a project as part of Goethe Institute’s transnational project Europe (to the power of) n, directed by Barbara Steiner.