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運河無荒春：一個藝術群體及其友之二三影
開幕：2016年4月15日，下午8點
放映：2016年4月15日至17日
參與藝術家：周育正、范曉嵐、陳思含、張恩滿、羅仕東、復興漢工作室
每一波新浪都應有一個他們喪失中的信仰。
四月份TCAC錄像廳將目光望向由我們的鄰人「打開-當代」此集群出發，所環繞與離散之影像紀述，它是關於其間個體與群體生命間的纏結考，亦是創作慾望諸力蔓流的水文考。觀看2001年後台灣當代藝術家群體公社化的結社操演，在交互作用中所撐張的美學空間，在一種近乎共力的合作過程中如何捏塑出共享卻又異質的特殊聲腔。而在抗拒規制化的過程中，如何面對「出走」成為一種常態，亦成為一種面對同時必須抵禦與迎向的全球資本流動體系的柔性動能。
儘管概念基底的「打開-當代」有其空間基礎和明確之成員界定（期間成員亦有其變動），此選映單元則運用一種更為動態與系譜式的角度，去回應這個群體非常規化的特質傾向，同時亦收納了較晚近的「復興漢工作室」，試圖在較為人熟識的歷史虛構、自我傳記的影像基調，或者關係性實踐的框架之外，尋找談論交纏中異質滲出之可能。通過幾個關鍵性的節點-作品，如同切開資本-影像的美學滲入、經驗與記憶重演、全球性勞力流動等概念性之溝通運河，同時以也是其美學的裂解點，於其中我們目睹「新浪」如何作為一種對友誼美學同時聚構與消抹的穿透力量。
關於 TCAC Video Lounge
「TCAC Video Lounge 」是鑲嵌於TCAC內部的多義性影像活動空間，旨在開放「作為檔案的影像」與「作為活動的影像」之間的聯繫可能性。它是一個多變的概念性空間，處於私密房間與公共空間之間的曖昧地帶；同時亦是一種併發於視、聽、肢體、皮層等官能性活動的影像症候群。Video Lounge是TCAC的浮動記憶體，它作為TCAC藝術家檔案室功能的全新延伸，提供一個讓研究者與錄像密切對話的私房場域。
The Canals without Wasted Spring: Friends and Shades of an Artist Collective
Opening: 8PM, April 15, 2016
Screening: April 15-17
Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center
Participating Artists: Chang En-Man, Chen Szu Han, Chou Yu-Cheng, Fan Hsiao-Lan, Fuxinghen Studio, Lo Shih-Tung
Every new wave conveys their disappearing faith.
The April program of TCAC Video Lounge brings the focus on our new neighbor Open-Contemporary Art Center and the image narratives orbiting around and departing from this artist collective. It is an investigation on the entanglement of individual and collective biopolitics as well as the hydrology of the creative flow and aesthetic influence of the local emerging contemporary artists after 2001, trying to identify the peculiar accent of their shared yet heterogeneous collaboration, which is generated by their communal practice and interactive aesthetic experiences. Their resistance against institutionalization constitutes the phenomenon of “eluding” that becomes the soft dynamics or attitude to confront with the global capitalism society.
As a concept-driven collective, OCAC has its own spatial establishment and regulation for membership (their member composition changes from time to time). This screening program does not seek for a representative overview on this group, but employs a perspective to respond to their shifting tendency, while expanding the vision to reflect on another younger collective Fuxinghen Studio. By addressing to the image quality from their approaches in making fictional history or biography, we may obtain a new understanding on “the otherness” that is overflown from their collective outfacing and interlacement beyond their relational framework of practice. The selected turning nodes/works indicate the conceptual canals such as the entry points of capital in their aesthetic operation, the re-enactment of common experience and memory, the fluxes carried the global network of labor relation as well as the split of aesthetic language. By reading these “new waves,” we shall see a penetrating force composed and composted by aesthetics of friendship politics.
About the TCAC Video Lounge
TCAC Video Lounge is a polysemous space for activities of and around moving images in Taipei Contemporary Art Center, opening the possibilities to engage and enact the concept of “image as archive” and “image as movement.” As a versatile space, it is a conceptual zone between a private room and public space with undefined destinations and determined aims—it is an imagery syndrome of the visual, audio, physical and cortical sensory activities. TCAC Video Lounge that functions as the floating memory space of TCAC is the new extension of artists’ archives, providing intimate encounters and dialogues between visiting researchers and video works.
TCAC Video Lounge is sponsored by Chi-Wen Huang & Bart Dekker
