展期：2015年12月5日－31日，週三－日下午1－7時
地點：台北當代藝術中心，台北市保安街49巷11號（捷運大橋頭站）
開幕：2015年12月5日，下午3時
藝術家座談：2015年12月5日，下午4時
與談人：簡子傑、呂岱如
本展覽為藝術家張允菡參與2014年 The Arctic Circle 極圈短期駐村計畫後的階段性成果。
當初張允菡申請的動機信中是這麼寫的：「當我們抵達北極，站在這星球的頂端時，是否意味著我們站在全世界的上頭？」然而，沒有人長居於此，遠離了「人」的經驗，如何能連結起那片荒蕪又豐富的自然，和它建立關係？過去面對社會議題的方式往往是巨大的結構包覆著個體，反之，個體經驗又能如何在北極被書寫、被創造，是什麼讓個人開始慢慢匯聚成為社群，進一步成為世界。如同在今日，北極如何以無人之境，卻逐漸作為未來全球性災難的象徵起源？或者，關於全球暖化、石油掠奪其實才是人類社會結構裡被創造出來的寓言神話？
在踏足北極圈的一年多後，以展覽作為嘗試性的側寫，在不同文本與敘事方式的交織下，重回藝術如何以感性建構我們認知世界的方式，重新遙想島嶼以及他方的可能。
關於藝術家
張允菡，1985年出生，現居、創作於台灣台北。2012碩士畢業於台灣藝術大學雕塑所。展覽曾發表於：《複眼：台北圖宰場》（2012），鳳甲美術館、《活彈藥》（2011），台北當代藝術館、《2010台北雙年展》，台北市立美術館等。2009年入選台北美術獎。
過去專注於藝術創作在各種日常生活的現身，作品大多源自對於周遭的省察，經由感受隱而未現的狀態，尋找無以名狀的共同經驗與邊際。近期思考則關注於個體與社會之間的連結、關係與實踐，抑或反身觀看如何被形塑建構。相信藝術是存於現實之中，藉由想像而創造裂隙的可能。
本展覽活動由台北當代藝術中心協辦，文化部贊助。
千鳥藝術公司任展覽技術統籌執行製作、彭冠傑任平面設計。
特別感謝廖怡惠、曾珮涵
You Are Not What You Think You Are – A Solo Show by Chang Yun-Han
Time: 2015.12.5-31, Wed – Sun, 1-7pm
Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center, No. 11, Lane 49, Baoan Street, Taipei (MRT: Daqiaotou Station)
Opening: 2015.12.5, 3pm
Artist Talk: 2015.12. 5, 4pm
With speakers: Jian Tzu-Chieh, Esther Lu
This exhibition is resulted from Chang Yun-Han’s participation in the Arctic Circle residency project to present her work-in-progress research.
In Chang’s application letter to the residency, she wrote, “When we arrive the north arctic circle and stand on top of this planet, does it really mean that we stand on top of the entire world?” Since this area is not inhabited by human for long-term living, and is far from the ordinary human experience, how can we connect with such desolate and rich nature? Chang believes that individuals are surrounded by gigantic structures when confronting social issues, and is therefore interested in understanding how individual experiences are created, shaped and written in the opposite arctic circumstance to eventually form communities and the world accordingly. Why does the North Pole gradually become the symbol for the global disaster today, even being like no man’s land? Or, do we simply invent allegories such as global warming and oil war from the human society?
One year after the trip, the artist attempts to illustrate the experience through the form of an exhibition to employ multiple texts and narrations to address how art could construct the way we learn about the world, contemplate on possibilities we imagine islands and elsewhere.
About the artist
Born 1985, Chang Yun-Han lives and works in Taipei. She obtained her MFA in Sculpture from the National Taiwan University of Arts. Her works have been presented in Compound Eyes-Killing Image Lots in Taipei (2012) in Hong-Gah Museum, Live Ammo (2011) in Taipei MOCA, 2010 Taipei Biennial in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, etc. She was shortlisted by the Taipei Art Award in 2009.
Chang’s practice had been focusing on the presence of everyday life, and her works reflected the subtle invisibility in the surrounding to explore those common experiences and borders that were waiting to be named. Her recent concerns address to connection, relation and practice between individual and society, as well as the construction of them. She believes that art exists in reality, and the human imagination could create raptures for perception.
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Taipei Contemporary Art Center, and is supported by the Ministry of Culture.
Exhibition Technology by Thousand Bird Arts
Graphic Design by Peng Guan-Jie
Special thanks to Liao Yi-Hui and Tseng Pei-Han
