9/14 SUN 3-5PM
We Print Art – Talk two
Artist Books As Work, Platform or Literature
藝術家出版品如何成為作品，交流平台，或是文學
本場座談將以中、英語進行，備有中文翻譯。
The talk will be in Chinese and English with consecutive translation.
For English please scroll down.
策劃主持｜鄭美雅
主講｜海蒂・芙歐特，蔡佳葳與林昱，王郁禎與安卓
藝術家出版品從作品的一種再現載體，逐步被視為一件可被展覽的作品自身，它或許是一本類策展的同人雜誌、創作者間的互動平台或是一個藝術家與文學、藝術史學者間的共同創作。這種轉變，暗示著藝術家的工作模式及角色有了微妙的變化。藝術出版品，不單單是再現作品的載體，而更接近於一種新的工作方式，或是研究方式與網絡的建立。在此，藝術家接近於一種策畫者、研究者以及共同創作者，考量不同的接收模式及呈現方式，並實驗著各種不同的合作形式。
這個講座邀請了三組藝術家對他們的出版品進行演說。海蒂・芙歐特（Heidi Voet）以她近期的出版物「之一」（ONE IN MANY)為例，討論紙本藝術出版作為一種介面，如何再現藝術家的作品並重現身體，或作為一件被展覽的作品。緩慢流通的紙本出版物，意味著一種古典的閱讀模式，這種接收模式，與網路媒介可被量化分析、統計的模式，影響了藝術家選擇傳達作品意念的方式。在現場，海蒂還將播放由策展人/藝術家馬修・伯利塞維兹( Mathieu Borysevicz)為本書所製作的一部短片，作為一種讀後感想的回饋。
蔡佳葳所創辦的雜誌「Lovely Daze」，從藝術家的個人網絡，其所感興趣的藝術作品、藝術家逐步延伸，成為一個類策展的獨立藝術雜誌。「Lovely Daze」既是一個藝術家極為個人的研究呈現，也同時作為一種創作者之間的交流平台。這個發表邀請了「ArtReview Asia」 主編林昱共同對談，探討商業藝術雜誌與藝術家自發的藝術雜誌之間極為不同的思考脈絡與運作機制。
王郁媜與安卓（Andro Semeiko）將各自發表其藝術出版的計畫。王郁媜以虛擬敘事、基進書寫及創意文本融合在其個人創作書「機器之歌」(The Song of the Machines, 2012），如同其作品混合了繪畫、物件、裝置、錄像與表演等等多重形式，試圖探索機器與能量的概念，並描繪出一個可能的美好明日。安卓的出版品經常與文學家、歷史學家與藝術評論合作，其作品與展覽在書寫者筆下化為諷刺文學的素材，或是充滿了奇幻與機巧的文字與視覺之旅，例如基於英國歷史的幽默諷刺作品「火箭MT 2010啟航」(Unveiling: Rocket MT2010, 2010)以兩位小說家的語言技巧混合編織成視覺隱喻的「聖三角」(The Holy Triangle, 2013) ，以及探索一位創作實踐者思想旅程的TAP (2014)。
鄭美雅
獨立策展人，現任台北當代藝術中心理事長。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，為此，她共同參與了台北當代藝術中心的發起、成立及運作，以群體合作的模式，共同營運這個實驗性的獨立機構。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，「未來事件交易所」，「第六屆皇后雙年展」。主編讀本：「歐洲重要嗎？」。論壇策畫:「策展與機構論壇」。
海蒂・芙歐特
出生於比利時，現旅居於布魯塞爾和上海兩地。芙歐特的跨領域作品以形象轉化的方式作呈現，將日常之物轉換成為對社會現象的表述與批判。她的創作靈感來自於旅居歐洲和亞洲之間的自身跨文化經驗，而中國當代文化中的通俗圖像與物件則常出現於其作品之中作為核心主題的發想。曾於上海滬申畫廊、台北伊通公園舉行個展，並於洛杉磯、上海、布魯塞爾等地的群展展出。在比利時曾獲獎的MERpaperkunsthalle出版公司，近期發行了芙歐特的藝術家出版物項目《One In Many》，並在布魯塞爾的Wiels當代藝術中心和上海外灘美術館發行。
蔡佳葳
擅長以多種媒材進行創作，長期關注地域、社會與精神靈性議題，以創作引導觀者跳出慣有思維框架，聚焦人與自然的關係，思索文化信仰、精神性與「空性」之間複雜多變的關係。於創作之外，蔡佳葳自2005年創刊「Lovely Daze」，這是一本當代藝術半年刊，由藝術家自行設計、編輯、出版，希望提供藝術家發聲的平台。蔡佳葳的作品曾在全球各地展出，展出城市包括巴黎、奧地利、波哥大、雪梨、東京、孟買、新加坡、香港與台北；也參與多次國際聯展與雙年展。
林昱
現居上海。比較文學碩士。自2013年春天加入英國老牌藝術批評雜誌「ArtReview」任亞洲編輯總監，並於同年5月創立其姐妹刊物，面向全亞洲市場的英語評論雜誌「ArtReview Asia」。在此之前，她於2009年末至2012年期間與田霏宇共同創辦中英雙語雜誌《藝術界》。除了藝術批評和文化評論寫作，她還為藝術家畫冊及其他出版物撰寫文章，並從事出版物編輯和獨立策展。
王郁媜
出生於台中，現定居於英國倫敦。她以鉛筆和水彩創作繁複的繪畫，其創作媒材亦延伸至藝術家出版品、影像、表演、拼貼和裝置藝術。作品以無定型的圖像與束狀線條構成，以呈現另類空間與超現實景觀。作品曾在世界各地展示，包括倫敦海沃德畫廊、曼徹斯特角落之屋、魁北克市魚眼畫廊、法國北加萊當代藝術基金會、倫敦肯頓藝術中心、倫敦當代藝術中心、都柏林的黯夜電影節以及柏林的波昂錄像藝術雙年展、2014台北雙年展。
安卓
出生於喬治亞，現定居英國。他的作品探討多層次結構的敘事手法，將現地互動的繪畫裝置以戲劇的場面調度方式呈現。藉由與作家和表演藝術家的共同創作，運用語言與設備裝置凸顯虛構中的錯覺，創造出諷刺、荒誕與科幻的後設小說形式。其合作對象遍及各領域，作品亦曾於英國、法國、義大利、荷蘭、捷克、喬治亞、土耳其、俄羅斯和美國等地展出。今年秋天，安卓將駐村於台南蕭壠文化園區，並舉行個展。
Moderator: Meiya Cheng
Speakers: Heidi Voet, Charwei Tsai & Aimee Lin, Yu-Chen Wang & Andro Semeiko
The role of the art publication, as mere documentation of artworks, has changed into one where the function of the publication can greatly vary. The publication is the artwork or serves as a curated platform where the artists’ work becomes a collaborative piece with the writing of novelists or academics. Throughout these variations, artists propose new models to establish research and collaboration.
TCAC is pleased to invite three groups of artists and content makers to present their approach to the art publication. Starting from Heidi Voet’s recently publication project ONE IN MANY, the discussion will explore the artistic practice and its alternative insight provided by the printed matters. Conventional publications on paper demand a slow and “physical” distribution of the information, where the Internet challenges these aspects of dissemination, enabling information to spread fast and cheap. This affects the way artists choose to communicate their concepts through publication. Heidi Voet will explain her concept of and methodology in ONE IN MANY. A video clip, created by curator and artist Mathieu Borysevicz, will be presented in response to the book.
Lovely Daze, founded and published by artist Charwei Tsai, is a curatorial journal featuring writings and artworks by artists. Tsai and her guest speaker Aimee Lin, editor of ArtReview Asia, will discuss on the difference between the commercial art magazine and the artist-initiated “artzine”: the strategy, the approach and the practice.
Yu-Chen Wang and Andro Semeiko will present their recent publications. Wang will talk about a quasi-fictional artist book, The Song of the Machines (2012), featuring stories about her life and artistic practice. Reality and fiction are blurred through the display of new work, documentation, critical texts and creative writing. Semeiko will talk about his artist books that are part of his research about multi-layered visual narrative. Unveiling: Rocket MT2010 (2010) is a humorous satire based on the British history. The Holy Triangle (2013) mixes visual metaphors employing the wordsmithing skills of two novelists, while TAP (2014) is an exploration of a creative practitioner’s journey of thought.
Meiya Cheng
Freelance curator and currently chair of the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Meiya Cheng, lives and works in Taipei. Her selected curated exhibitions include: Augmenting the World, (The 6th Taipei Digital Art Festival, international section, 2011) Trading Futures, (co-curated with Pauline Yao, TCAC, 2012, and 6th Queens International (co-curated with Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NYC.) She was invited to participate in forums and seminars including Asia Triennial Manchester, Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art and Asia Pacific Triennial. In 2013, she organized “Curating and the Institutions” forum at TCAC, and edited the reader “Does Europe Matter?” (Artco Magazine, part of the program in Europe to the Power of N.)
Heidi Voet
Born in Belgium, Heidi Voet lives and works in Brussels and Shanghai.
Her multi-disciplinary artistic practice is characterized by her playful and transformative use of objects to make critical social commentary about everyday life.
Heidi Voet’s work is informed by her transcultural experience of both residing in Europe and Asia and frequently uses popular images or objects found in Chinese contemporary culture as central subjects in her works. Heidi Voet’s work has been shown in several solo shows including ‘Is six afraid of seven’ at the Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (CN), at IT Park, Taipei (TW) and has participated in numerous group shows in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin and Brussels. Recently the Belgian award-winning publisher MERpaperkunsthalle, published the first monograph on Heidi Voet’s work, ONE IN MANY. The publication ONE IN MANY was launched in Brussels at the Wiels Contemporary Art Center and at The Rockbund Museum in Shanghai.
Charwei Tsai
An artist currently living and working in Taipei, Saigon, and Paris. Geographical, social, and spiritual motifs inform her body of work, which encourages viewer participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation. Tsai has participated in international exhibitions and biennials including Sharjah Biennale and Dojima River Biennale (both in 2013), Yokohama Triennale and Ruhrtriennale (both in 2011), and her work is currently on exhibit at TKG+ in Taipei until 12 October 2014 and Simple Shapes at Pompidou Center, Metz until 5 January 2015. In addition to her art practice, Tsai publishes a curatorial journal Lovely Daze since 2005.
Aimee Lin
Since Aimee Lin started working as Editorial Director Asia at the British art magazine ArtReview in 2013, she founded its sister magazine ArtReview Asia, an art magazine distributed in the pan-Asia area. Prior to this position, she was the founding editor of LEAP (2009—2012). Her practice ranges from writing, editing, art and culture criticism to curating. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.
Yu-Chen Wang
Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Yu-Chen Wang lives and works in London, UK. Wang creates complex and intricate drawings with pencil and watercolor, but also extends her practice into artists’ books, films, performances, collage and installation. The amorphous shapes and wispy lines in her drawings evoke alternative places and surreal landscapes. Her work has been exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Hayward Gallery, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Galerie L’Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France; Camden Arts Centre, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; Darklight Film Festival, Dublin; and Videonale, Berlin, Taipei Biennial 2014.
Andro Semeiko
Andro Semeiko is a Georgian born and London-based artist. Semeiko explores ways of constructing multi-layered stories. He composes site-responsive painterly installations that narrate or construct a theatrical mise-en-scene. They call upon the language and devices of satire, absurd, sci-fi and meta-fiction through collaboration with writers and performers. His collaborators include outstanding novelists, journalists, cognitive scientists, linguists, art historians, curators, theatre directors and actors. Semeiko has exhibited internationally including in the UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Georgia, Turkey, Russia and USA. In autumn this year Semeiko will embark on a residency and a solo show at Soulangh Culture Park, Tainan, Taiwan (2014).
台北當代藝術中心由文化部及RC Art Collection贊助營運。
TCAC is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and RC Art Collection.
