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黑市場白皮書：台北當代藝術中心募款展
預展：6月12日 6PM
展期：6月13－21日，週三－週日 1 – 7PM
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）
Black Market White Paper: Taipei Contemporary Art Center Fundraising Exhibition
Preview: 12 June, 6PM
Time: 13 – 21 June, Wed – Sun 1-7PM
Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center, No. 11, Lane 49 Baoan Street, Taipei (MRT: Daqiaotou Station)
當藝術在資本主義社會被貼上數字標籤的那一刻，究竟說明了哪些隱而未現的勞動與生產，又指涉了什麼樣的慾望與資本流動？藝術經濟裡眾多無法被市場交易的生產行為又是如何持續？藝術生態中的個體與組織如何在這場黑色遊戲中創造其生存之道？
藝術並非總是以其工具性面對現實，而往往憑其創造力去促成尚未被定型或馴化的條件和狀態，以突破框架、打造新的現實。藝術經濟是生產創造性內涵與象徵符號的經濟系統，在圖像、知識、文化、感知、關係的生產維度上，投注高度獨特性、自主性、個體化或組織性的勞動狀態，憑此雕塑社會結構、情感網絡、意識型態、時代意義等。當創作在生產過程中被賦予形式、轉化為物質存在或可感介質時，其面對的，是一個被多重外在慾望、權力、機制等交媾支配而出的市場景觀和文化場域，有其難以化約的參數。從生產至其展示和流通的介面，藝術生產所不斷碰撞、突變、甚至表演出的經濟運作方式，闖盪出各種非正式、非協定、詭譎雜揉、難以命名的黑市場。
台北當代藝術中心自今年初以機構改造的思維反思自身生產條件與外在處境，重新規劃組織架構與機構角色，並再度定義其在藝術環境、歷史、現實中所欲追求的價值與責任。在未來兩年內，工作團隊將以「廣場」作為核心精神，企圖重新尋求藝術部署社會組織的能力和公共力量，打造一處參與、表達、交流之所，聯繫生產的各項環節，並檢視機構在系統間的工作倫理與經濟可能。《黑市場白皮書》展覽作為一次透明的工作計畫展示，將完整全面介紹機構未來兩年的夢想與工作方法，更是台北當代藝術中心的募款行動——在樹立一種另類的黑經濟裡去探索藝術和公共性生產一起前進的可能。
When a price tag is attached to a work of art in the capitalist society, what kind of labor relation and production activities does it suggest or conceal? What kind of capital and desire are behind its speculation? How do those production behaviors ruled out by the market economy continue to sustain themselves? How do individuals and organizations create their survival strategies and tools in the art ecology?
Art does not always confront reality with resolutions; art often attempts to contribute to creating conditions and situations with imagination to break through the status quo and build a new reality. Art economy is a production of creative contents and symbolic capitals that involves highly specific, autonomous, individual or collective laboring in the production of image, knowledge, culture, sense and relation, and shapes social structure, affective network, ideology and zeitgeist accordingly. When such production is given a form for a material existence or a sensible medium, it places itself in the complex market dynamics and culture field determined by various parameters set by institution, power and desire. From its production, exhibition, distribution and consumption, art economy has generated different mutated or even performative models and regulations to invent an unofficial, unnamable, obscure black market.
Since the beginning of 2015, Taipei Contemporary Art Center has been transforming itself to reflect its own production conditions and situated environment, redesigning its organizational structure and institutional role and redefining its values and responsibilities in the reality, ecology and history of art. With plaza as the core concept in its new mission, TCAC seeks to commoning energy and capacity in art to redistribute social relations for participation, expression, exchange and production. By blurring the divisions among various processes of art production and building new connections among players in the field, TCAC will examine its work ethics and economic potentials in this opportunity. Black Market White Paper demonstrates such ambition by exhibiting TCAC’s programs, project proposals and financial schemes of 2015 and 2016. It is a transparent introduction on the institution’s future plans, dreams and methodologies. Above all, it is TCAC’s fundraising action—exploring the coproduction of art and common in an alternative black economy.
