未來事件交易所Trading Futures
4 March – 31 March, 2012
開幕茶會：三月4號下午2點到6點
Opening reception: 4 March 2012, 14.00–18.00 hrs
主辦單位：台北當代藝術中心
www.tcac.tw
參展藝術家：
藝術家： 張奕滿（新加坡） 周育正（台灣） 丘旼子（韓國）胡向前（中國） 高俊宏（台灣） 李傑（香港） 孫原 & 彭禹（中國）田中功起（日本） 蔡佳葳（台灣） 徐坦（中國）
策展人：
鄭美雅（台灣） 姚嘉善 （美國）
由台北當代藝術中心主辦的「未來事件交易所」 ，將展出來自亞洲的藝術家張奕滿、周育正、丘旼子、胡向前、高俊宏、李傑、孫原彭禹、田中功起、蔡佳葳以及徐坦的作品。本展覽由策展人鄭美雅以及姚嘉善（Pauline J. Yao）所共同策劃，探討對於藝術的、製作及價值的議題。在台北當代藝術中心即將搬遷的前夕展出，並為這個藝術家與策展人為營運主體的藝術中心劃下了兩年領航計畫的句點。
「未來事件交易所」是一個藝術性的概念提問、呈現以及創造過程，並探討藝術的勞動、價值、消費和慾望之間的系統交會。最近全球的一些事件讓我們更意識到經濟議題的關鍵性，進一步觸發了對製作導向的藝術領域，並重新檢驗既存藝術系統中關於交流及慾望的關係。當當代藝術的發展向一連串的社會行動、展現或過程導向的製作逐步靠攏，試圖逆轉對已完成藝術品的需求，藏家及捐助者也面臨了挑戰—如何看待這些不確定的現地製作、開放式的交流以及合作策略？
在亞洲，因著資本主義的強烈驅力而過度強調了藝術領域中的交易性，並且偏好奇觀製作的媒材，這類的現象非常顯著。這次「未來事件交易所」邀請到亞洲各地的十位藝術家來執行新的計劃，採用一種不同的方法來介紹一系列異質的思考及互動模式。對於勞動、資本、未來藍圖，以及建構在語言上的研究與調查。刻意地扮演自說書人乃至於訪問者、勞動者、雇主、消費者以及設計師的多重角色，這些藝術家以及這個展覽企圖尋求一種實驗性質的手段，尋求價值能夠被創造並且傳播的新方法/工具。
雖然「未來事件交易所」中的討論並非刻意針對台北當代藝術中心的暫時休止，但它的確對於當今台灣的藝術環境有一定指涉。最近在台北發生的幾次關於文化政策的政治行動引發了激烈辯論，影響了文化被定義、傳播以及創造的方法; 另外，藝術家在重塑台灣城市與社會體制再發展所扮演的角色也開始轉變。處於台北當代藝術中心所面臨的真實情境，「未來事件交易所」希望顯現今日藝術家和機構所面臨的一些無法被量化的掙扎，並開發正在進行中的藝術創造與接受的新模式的價值。
Trading Futures
The Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC) is pleased to present Trading Futures, an international group exhibition with works by Asian artists Heman Chong, Chou Yu-cheng, Minja Gu, Hu Xiangqian, Kao Jun-honn, Lee Kit, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Koki Tanaka, Charwei Tsai, and Xu Tan that investigate and reflect on questions of artmaking, production and value. Co-curated by Meiya Cheng and guest curator Pauline J. Yao, Trading Futures takes place on the eve of TCAC’s relocation and marks the conclusion of the artist-and-curator led art center’s two-year pilot phase.
Trading Futures is a gathering of conceptual interrogations, gestures and processes that look into the ways in which art and artistic experimentation intersect with hypothetical systems of labor, value, consumption, and desire. Recent global events have put economic phenomena at the forefront of our consciousness, provoking a reexamination of the production-based sphere of art and the art system’s inherent relationships to vectors of exchange and desire. As developments in contemporary art increasingly lean towards a set of social actions, gestures or participatory processes that transform the need for finished products and art objects; collectors and donors are faced with a challenge to embrace the indeterminate on-site practices, open-ended exchanges, and collaborative strategies that comprise today’s artistic field. Nowhere is this more evident than in Asia where the brute forces of capitalism emphasize art’s transactional side and favor the production of outcomes that are often materially spectacular in nature. Inviting ten artists from around Asia to spearhead new projects, Trading Futures takes a different tack, presenting a range of modest responses that speculate on alternate forms of exchange, narratives of labor and disappearance, proposals for the future, and language-based investigations. Willfully adopting multiple roles ranging from storyteller to interviewer, laborer, employer, consumer, and designer, these artists and the exhibition as a whole seeks to enact new ways that value can be created and distributed through experimental means.
While the commentaries found within Trading Futures are not intended to address the specific condition of TCAC’s hiatus, they do carry particular implications for the current artistic environment of Taiwan. Recent political actions in Taipei surrounding cultural policy funding have sparked heated debates that are impacting the way culture is being defined, disseminated, and produced; and by association, what role artists are to play in the ongoing process of economic redevelopment reshaping Taiwan’s urban and social fabric. Squarely situated within the economic condition of TCAC itself, Trading Futures does intend to offer commentaries on the myriad struggles facing artists and institutions today as well highlight the ongoing search for new modes of production and reception.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Asia where the brute forces of capitalism emphasize art’s transactional side and favor the production of outcomes that are often materially spectacular in nature. Inviting ten artists from around Asia to spearhead new projects, Trading Futures takes a different tack, presenting a range of modest responses that speculate on alternate forms of exchange, narratives of labor and disappearance, proposals for the future, and language-based investigations. Willfully adopting multiple roles ranging from storyteller to interviewer, laborer, employer, consumer, and designer, these artists and the exhibition as a whole seeks to enact new ways that value can be created and distributed through experimental means.
About The Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC)
Opened in February 2010, Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC) is an independent initiative founded by a group of artists, curators, scholars and cultural activists. TCAC is a platform for the art community to express itself, to interact among themselves and to exchange with international art worlds through socio-political issues, cultural policies and aesthetic positions. Major activities include the presentation of art works, films, books, music, and performances, as well as lectures, forums, symposiums, publications and exhibitions.
Participating artists: Heman CHONG (Singapore), CHOU Yu-cheng (Taiwan), Minja GU (Korea), HU Xiangqian (China), KAO Jun-honn (Taiwan), LEE Kit (Hong Kong), SUN Yuan & PENG Yu (China), Koki TANAKA (Japan), Charwei TSAI (Taiwan), XU Tan (China)
Curated by Meiya Cheng and Pauline J. Yao
Location: Taipei Contemporary Art Center, 160-6, Yanping S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Hours: Thursday to Sunday 13:00 – 19:00 and by appointment
Telephone: +886 2 2311 2626
For further information email: office@tcac.tw
