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走私：一個越境的生命經濟學
參展藝術家：亞歷山德拉．多曼諾維奇、陳思含、大衛．馬爾加克維奇、科斯塔．托尼夫、盧切札．博亞杰夫、黃榮法、阮芳伶、附錄、許家禎、阮陳烏達、吳其育、茲比涅克．巴拉德
策展人：方彥翔
展期：2017.12.29 (Fri.) – 2018.02.25 (Sun.)
地點：國立臺北藝術大學 關渡美術館 一樓展廳
開幕：2017.12.29 (Fri.) 5 pm
座談：2017.12.30 (Sat.) 2 pm
放映場：2018.01.20 (Sat.) 3 pm、2018.01.27 (Sat.) 3 pm 台北當代藝術中心
* 節目異動，造成不便敬請見諒
隨著冷戰後世界權力版圖的重新位移，今日新的全球治理之敘事方案正在重新升起；以「新框架」為名由新興權力體所想像鋪設，它透過跨國創投結盟、資源與物流系統的重建，以及對資訊科技等新治理技術的吸納掌握，新的治理性力量以更佳的效率跨越國界、進入生命治理的內部縱深。
《走私》計畫的想像在於形變以及滲染此給定的全球治理框架界線。計畫起始於考察與描繪兩段後共產軸線的蛻變、連結與張力關係，嘗試於其歷史及未來想像上提出一種再纏繞的方法，啟動另一則新的生命敘事方案。
以分處於昔日社會主義陣營兩側的政治地理軸線作為背景線索，從過去經濟互助委員會的經貿勞動同盟，陸續由共產體制片面或全面性轉換至市場體制，至今日作為全球體系中新興經濟體的角色；探討在其政經轉型中內部面對市場化、民主化、國族認同建構等課題之變化與矛盾，以及外部面對所屬區域政治經濟聯盟與強權間之牽動糾結，其中個體或群體及社會性的潛流與動態。
借助離散與越境經驗的表述與美學化，描繪一個概念或狀態上的特殊邊界之穿行與擾動，我們意圖捕捉書寫一種往返的連結史，一種跨越國家計劃經濟與全面市場、技術化之治理性編程的生命史。在外部遶境中——無論是對斷層線的縫合，或是一個外部纏鬥的力量——我們看見一種對國家權力框架和資本生命部署的外溢，進行著對生命經濟化治理的抵抗。
本展覽計劃為國家文化藝術基金會視覺藝術策展專案所贊助
主辦單位：台北當代藝術中心
協辦單位：國立臺北藝術大學 關渡美術館
贊助單位：國家文化藝術基金會、台北市文化局、財團法人RC文化藝術基金會
媒體合作：數位荒原
特別感謝：Nhà Sàn Collective、亞洲當代藝術空間、Metro Pictures、Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
So Far, So Right: A Study of Reforms and Transitions Across Borders
Artists: Aleksandra Domanović, Chen Szu-Han, David Maljković, Kosta Tonev, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Morgan Wong, Phương Linh Nguyen, Phụ Lục (The Appendix), Syu Jia Jhen, UuDam Tran Nguyen, Wu Chi-Yu, Zbyněk Baladrán
Curator: Fang Yen Hsiang
Date: 2017.12.29 (Fri.) – 2018.02.25 (Sun.)
Venue: 1F, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA
Reception: 2017.12.29 (Fri.) 5:00p.m.
Artist Talk: 2017.12.30 (Sat.) 2 pm
Screening: 2018.01.20 (Sat.) 3 pm, 01.27 (Sat.) 3 pm, Taipei Contemporary Art Center
* The talk and screening schedule has been changed, sorry for the inconvenience.
Since the balance of power shifted after the Cold War, a new proposal for global governance has been in the making. In the name of a new framework, this proposal is conceived by emerging great powers, where the alliance of startups across countries, the reconstruction of transnational resources and logistics systems, as well as the acquisition of new management technologies such as information technology, together allow the new governing powers to transcend borders and enter the realm of biopolitics all the more efficiently.
Project So Far, So Right is based on the concept of deforming and how it osmoses into the given framework of global governance. The project unfolds from the investigation and delineation of two post-communist narratives as well as their metamorphoses, interweaving relations, and tensions, proposing a possible method to re-entangle their histories and imagined futures, thus launching a new life story.
Set against the backdrop of two former socialist blocs and their political geography in the past, the project delves into the history of the trade and labor alliance of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the gradual process of the communist system partially or entirely transitioning into the market system, and how these countries transform into emerging economies on a global scale. The project also investigates the transmutations and contradictions in the ways marketization, democratization, and the construction of national identity confront these regions during their political and economic transition, as well as how they grapple with the regional political and economic alliance of which it is part, the delicate relations between great powers, and the undercurrents and volatile states of the individual, the collective, and society.
Through the manifestation and aestheticization of diaspora and cross-border experiences, portraying a unique state of passing through and interfering with conceptual or physical borders, this project attempts to trace a back-and-forth history of connection, a biohistory that transcends the governance of national planned economy and all-encompassing marketization and technologization. As we examine the biohistory from an external vantage point — whether it’s the bridging of political fault lines, or the tenacious force that resists and wrestles outside the system — we witness an opposition to the framework of national power and capitalist deployment, defying the governing force of the economization of life.
The project So Far, So Right is sponsored by the Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts of National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan
Organizer: Taipei Contemporary Art Center
Co-Organizer: Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA
Sponsors: National Culture and Arts Foundation; Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government; RC Culture and Arts Foundation
Media Partner: No Man’s Land
Special Thanks: Nhà Sàn Collective, A+ Contemporary, Metro Pictures, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
