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時間：2017/07/15 （六）， 7-9PM
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）
藝術家：Rory Viner、張欣
門票：新台幣200元（含一杯飲料）
兩位聲音創作者將在《擴張之耳》呈現新的聲音表演。藉由各種閱讀數據的方式，他們各自發展了聽取身體、社會、自然之聲的方式，作為創作的手法之一。
Rory的表演將結合採集資料與實驗音樂的即興創作。創作長期關注藉由情感譜繪的社會文化地理，透過重新詮釋大數據的資料或是對於私人身體的感應觀察數據，轉化出不同向度的作曲空間，捕捉竄動在深層意識流下，情感能量來回在個體與社會所交織與互斥的介面結構上。
〈生命種植〉是以音效工程、生物錄音、影像節錄與詩歌進行的植物與人類的聲響交流計畫。這是張欣的第二次植物學系列表演，這個進行中的計畫結合了科學與神秘作為方法的實驗，以理解驅使自然生命的力量。這個計畫發起於張欣在榕樹下打太極的每日實踐；氣的循環開啟了她的感官，對內在共振的一瞥以及天人之間宇宙聯合的可能性。
關於藝術家
Rory Viner
Rory Viner為聲音藝術家與實驗性音樂作曲者，現居日本東京。Rory作品專注於非定性的音樂結構、交織旋律與干擾性技術，在繁鬱且完整的編曲中找尋聲響建築在撩亂時刻中的疏朗之美。他近期的創作關注聯覺（synesthesia）、感知、資料與聲響。
張欣
張欣，出生於加拿大溫哥華，現居台北。她的藝術實踐是變化性的，常透過共感的過程和他者對話，以錄像、聲響與表演進行。張欣的抽象繪畫與合唱音樂的藝術背景強烈地影響她的認知過程。她的作品曾於國際展出，包括上海新時線媒體藝術中心、台北滲透影像藝術節、台北失聲祭與韓國Jeju National Art Museum。她的表演<Inland＞於2013年獲得Arte Laguna Art Prize提名。
關於辛沙龍
TCAC在2017年所全新推出的《辛沙龍》系列將首度嘗試透過展演情境創造和焦點議題的發展來輪廓未來政治的形貌。全年度的活動節目將從「身體政治」的再出發來思考各種切身於社會關係組織、政治權力的議題，從性和死亡等兩大軸線來探索不同文化如何理解身體作為當代社會中作為何種政治媒介、意識形態、文化符碼和結構規訓的載體。從而觀看身體在文化歷史上、在藝術文本中如何展現、交織、再現個體和集體的慾望和運作；在政治經濟上，又如何可能被歸納到各種被英雄化、神聖化、殘疾化、工具化、機械化、畸形化、妖魔化等狀態。這些身體政治的問題意識將引導我們重新關注並辨識自身現代化的真正起始點，並思索所處當代社會身體的病徵。相關的子題或將擴延至情慾、性別、身份政治、酷兒研究、女性主義、暴力、痛苦、死亡、後網路、賽伯客等，以長達兩年的時間來梳理關於身體實踐之徑。
辛沙龍系列關注如何在21世紀創造一種新型態的藝術沙龍聚會發表以滋養公共領域的知識生產與藝術實踐，讓藝術家與各界人士得以在一種共學、協作的過程裡展開長期對話性的研究討論、展示實驗、創意激盪並衍伸更多展覽形式以外的藝術言說方式來和觀眾／參與者進行溝通，演練奇想空間場域。這同時將作為TCAC開發公共領域擴延思索以及藝術實驗場的手段，刺激在地藝術社群擴延議題思想和跨文化交流的範疇，以此投射對藝術中心在空間敘事、身份功能、社群關係上的開放想像。
Time: 2017/07/15 Sat. 7PM
Venue：Taipei Contemporary Art Center, No. 11, Lane 49, Baoan Street, Taipei (MRT: Daqiaotou Station)
Artist: Rory Viner, Sheryl Cheung
Ticket: NT 200 (one drink included)
Two sound artists are presenting their new compositions in the night of Expanded Ears. With different means of data reading, they develop individual approaches to hear the sounds of body, society and nature.
Rory’s performance will make improvisation based on the collected data and experimental music. His works concern the social and cultural geography composed by human emotions, and his compositions are often generated by collected data via big data of society or sampled data from private bodies, capturing the interface structure holding emotion and energy in the deep consciousness.
Life Cultivation is an attempt for sonic communion between plant and human via means of foley, bio-recordings, film extracts, and hymn. This is the second performance of Sheryl’s botanic series, which is an ongoing project that experiments with both scientific and mystic methods to understand the forces that drive natural life. The project was first inspired by Sheryl’s daily practice of Taichi under Banyan trees; the circulation of qi opened her senses to a glimpse of inner resonance and the possibility of cosmic union between heaven and man.
About Artists
Rory Viner
Rory Viner is a sound artist and experimental composer based in Tokyo, Japan. With a focus on unusual music structure, interwoven melodies and glitch techniques, Rory constructs a sonic architecture of dazzling moments of sparse beauty amidst lush and complex orchestration. His current work focuses on synesthesia (the mixing of senses), sensors, data and sound.
Sheryl Cheung
Sheryl Cheung was born in Vancouver, Canada, and currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan. Primarily working between video, sound, and performance, her artistic practice is metabolic and elements respond to each other often through a process of synesthesia. Sheryl’s artistic background in abstract painting and choral music heavily influences her cognitive process. Her work has been shown internationally, including Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; Osmosis Audiovisual Festival, Taipei; Lacking Sound Festival, Taipei; and Jeju National Art Museum, Korea, Her performance ‘Inland’ has been nominated for Arte Laguna Art Prize in 2013.
About the Salon Spice
In 2017 TCAC is launching a new program series as an attempt to contour future politics by creating a tangible open space for connecting experimental displays and thematic discussions: the Salon Spice. Taking a departure from “body politics”, the Salon Spice will contemplate issues related to social organization and the distribution of political power from two main subjects “sex” and “death.” We will explore how bodies are at the center of this topic, subject to political agency, ideology, cultural symbol, structure and discipline across different cultures. Through a cultural and historical lens, we shall examine how bodies are presented and connected by their representation among individual and collective desires and manipulations in art. Politically and economically speaking, we will investigate how bodies are constantly labeled and classified as heroes, holy figures, witches, or the disfigured. The abnormal, alienated, instrumentalized or body-as-machine figures shall also be examined. These problematic topics will lead us to rethink and identify the real starting point for our very own modernization progress, and link with the symptoms of the contemporary social bodies. Related topics may also extend to eros, gender, identity politics, queer studies, feminism, violence, pain, death, post-internet, cyborg, etc.
The Salon Spice series suggests how to create a 21st century art salon that meets diverse variations of contemporary knowledge production, artistic practice and development of public sphere. It aims to create a co-learning collaborative environment and process for artists and other professionals by building conversations and navigating through research, display experiments, brainstorming, and other artistic communication beyond the form of exhibition-making, and together, exercising the space with fantasy and intervention. This could be considered as one of the strategies for TCAC to expand the public realm and art experimentation, providing a progressive platform for the local art community to explore ideas and intercultural exchanges that can be a part of the public imagination for the art center’s space narration, institutional identity, function and community.
