2014.7.12. 7pm
We Print Art Talk One – Printed Matter: Artist Book
藝術印行系列一：藝術家印物
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(The speech is in Chinese and English with Chinese interpretation.
本場座談將以中英語進行，並備有中文翻譯。)
策劃主持｜呂岱如
主講｜周安曼、周育正、Tyler Coburn、Kit Hammonds
印刷物作為一種既傳統又保持高度實驗性的媒材有著與展演形式所未能及的流通性和保存性，也作為藝術家發展另類敘事文本、視覺溝通的可能渠道。它不止提供紀錄性的服務，更是一項觀念化物件。這種游離在媒材、空間、介質、媒體、物件的特質，讓藝術書成為一種特殊的藝術物件。而近幾年藝術書博覽會在紐約、倫敦、東京、新加坡等地紛紛興起的現象，也透露了在這個資訊爆炸流通飛快的web 2.0世界裡，藝術出版的物件化傾向更開啓新的實踐與實驗形式的可能。
在座談會上，周育正將分享他在藝術書上的相關創作經驗，包括《工作史》、《昭和時代男子漢》等。Tyler Coburn去年在台北駐村期間所研究完成的出版品《機器人製造機器人》將首度在台北發表。周安曼也將分享從策展人的角度參與藝術家印物製作的想像，而Kit Hammonds將討論藝術家印物作為一種社會性物件，如何在活動、社交空間等提供藝術家不同的實踐功能。
周安曼
獨立策展人與作家。自2004年起於台北市立美術館擔任展覽助理，協助承辦多項國內、外展覽，包括2006與2008年台北雙年展 。 2010年擔任第7屆台北雙年展助理策展人，近年策劃展覽與計劃包括「兩年計畫」(2010-2012，台北)、「城市預演-余政達個展」(2013，澳門)。 2013年於Chi-Wen Gallery（台北）擔任展覽策劃工作。近年文章與譯作發表在《典藏今藝術》、《藝術家雜誌》、《 LEAP藝術界》、《MOT/TIMES線上誌》 等。2014年成立《一本出版》為一獨立藝術書籍出版社。目前定居工作於台北、台灣。
周育正
出生于臺北，畢業于法國國立巴黎高等藝術學院與塞納河研究計畫學程。他的藝術計劃強調於視覺造型背後的工作程序，關注於如何在現成事物中產生出另類的操作模式，同時顯露出既定事實的問題，並在合作的各端點中產生出相對應的另類利益。他的創作形式因不同的計畫而異，但大多以 「中介者」的角色提案或媒合了他視為「現成物」之個人、企業與機構組織，並透過一些「工作程序」的操作，例如轉移、轉讓、或是時間、地點的差異，產生出計劃的結果，形成來源與結果間的相互辯證。目前工作與生活于台灣臺北。
Tyler Coburn
現居紐約的藝術家與作家。
Kit Hammonds
策展人，也是倫敦皇家藝術學院的資深講師，教授當代藝術。他最近的展覽包括在波多Serralves Museum的 blue lines, red threads: social tendencies in artists books（2014, 3-6月）、北京CAFAM雙年展（2014, 2-4月）。他於2004協同創辦Publish and Be Damned，在不同的博覽會、活動與刊物裡持續支持與呈現藝術家獨立出版的計畫，今年11月份即將與Casa Bosco和墨西哥瓜達拉哈拉的pa/per view展開合作。
呂岱如
從事策展與寫作，現居台北。碩士畢業於高德史密斯學院，參與斯德哥爾摩CuratorLab策展實驗室的進修課程與駐村。她的策展實踐關注各種機制與可見度的交互作用，以觀念性的計畫探討藝術的能動性，並在社會場景與藝術平台間梳理另類的藝術生產，探索今日藝術的批判角色與功能。近年的策展計畫包括《物非物》（2014籌備中）、第55屆威尼斯雙年展平行展《這不是一座台灣館》（2013）等。近期文章散見於典藏讀天下、ArtReview Asia、Pipeline等藝術雜誌。
Speakers: Freya Chou, Yu-Cheng Chou, Tyler Coburn, Kit Hammonds
Curator & Moderator: Esther Lu
Printed matter as a conventional and experimental medium keeps the flexible distribution and sustainable preservation quality that is hard to be outreached by exhibitions or live stages. It provides different potentialities for artists to explore alternative narratives and visual communication—not only in the service of documentation, but as a conceptual object. As a peculiar art object, artist book travels in-between its multiple attributions as a medium, a space, an object, an agent or media. Art book fair that becomes an emerging trend in New York, London, Singapore, Tokyo and so on further reveals possible forms of practices and experiments in the age of Web 2.0: the objecthood of art book is waiting for more interventions.
Yu-Cheng Chou will share his previous production experiences on his books A Working History – Lu Chieh-Te and Aki. Tyler Coburn will launch his publication Robots Building Robots, which is generated from his research in Taiwan last year. Freya Chou will address her imaginations for art publishing, and Kit Hamonds will talk about how artist book as a social object functions in relationship to events and convene social spaces for artists.
Freya Chou
She is a freelance writer and curator, worked as an exhibition assistant at Taipei Fine Arts Museum since 2004, coordinated several local and international exhibitions, including Taipei Biennial 2006 and 2008. Chou is assistant curator of 2010 Taipei Biennial, her recent curatorial projects and exhibitions include The Two Year (2010-2012, TW), co-curated with Tirdad Zolghadr and Hongjohn Lin; On Set in the City—Solo Exhibition by Yu Cheng-Ta (2013, Macau). Chou is appointed as curator at Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei in 2013. She contributes for several art periodicals including MOT/TIMES (TW), Artist Magazine (TW), ARTCO Magazine (TW) and LEAP (CN), also works as editor for several exhibition catalogues. Chou is the founder of YiBen Book, an independent publishing house for artists’ books. She currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
Chou Yu-Cheng
He studied at the l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, and the research program – La Seine, at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris. Chou’s art project expresses his intentions by emphasizing the procedure and operation behind his work. To a certain degree, he focuses on how to produce an alternative method of operation that simultaneously reflects the problems of reality and proffers alternatives with their corresponding benefits. His intention is to reflect on the existing state of society, politics, and the economy, as well as on local issues.
Tyler Coburn
He is an artist and writer based in New York.
Kit Hammonds
He is a curator and senior tutor in curating contemporary art at the Royal College of Art, London. His recent exhibitions include blue lines, red threads: social tendencies in artists books at the serralves museum, Porto, March – June 2014 and the CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, February – April 2014. In 2004 he co-founded Publish and Be Damned, an ongoing project supporting and presenting independent artist led publishing through fairs, events and publications internationally including the forthcoming fair in collaboration with Casa Bosco and pa/per view, Guadalajara, November 2014.
Esther Lu
She is a curator based in Taipei. She received her MA from Goldsmiths College, and participated in Konstfact University’s CuratorLab program. Lu’s practice focuses on creating different interplays with institutions and visibility, and her conceptual projects often address the agency of art and initiate alternative artistic productions in between social scenes and artistic platforms in order to investigate the critical role of art today. Her curatorial projects include Never Odd or Even (to be realized in 2014), This is not a Taiwan Pavilion (2013) — collateral event in the 55th Venice Biennale, etc. Her recent articles are published in art magazines, including Artco Journal, ArtReview Asia, Pipeline, etc.
