想像的地景 未來的願景 Visionary Landscape Seeing to the Future (2009)

想像的地景 未來的願景 Visionary Landscape Seeing to the Future (2009)
in "Fushion Folks" of Bopiarts http://www.bopiarts.tw/BO_PI_ARTS_EDM.html;
http://www.bopiarts.tw/
Aug 29, Sat - Nov 01, Sun, 2009


This is a work done before my UK trip, with great helps from many friends and lovely people.
My time was urgent and I was pressured to get it done as quick as possible but not losing vision or quality of the work. It's still currently on show at Bopiliao, Taipei, the venue for Bopiarts.
Artist Ref. http://www.bopiarts.tw/eng_artist005.html

I haven't been in the show by person yet since its opening. Thanks for the curator and volunteers who take good care of my work, and here are some photos sent by them and my brother:






The work took 2 rooms. One room shows an installation of a key/hole shape brickwork filled with charcoal of Taiwan acacia, and a tree of Taiwan acacia standing at the center. Corresponding to it on the other side is a wall of computer-generated visionary landscape, with the brickwork and tree exactly set on the pre-purposed location. On the side wall hangs an enlarged old photo from the ancient charcoal market at the site. The room was supposedly exposed in natural light. Unfortunately the filming crew of a Taiwanese movie "Manga" blocked the front door and window, making it dark inside, which is not healthy at all for the tree and wasn't my initial intention.



Another room consists of 3 wall-hanging framed sketches and floor plan for the work, as well as a contour of the roof-edge on street level. The wall of the contour along with another side wall open to the public for audience response, which I heard was very vehement. :D

The words I put on the wall is: What does the past and future of Bo Pi Liao mean to you? Please leave your comments and share with others. And there are questionares on spot, asking 3 questions as shown below. The reason I give out questionare is becasue different departments in the government have different ideas about this area to be revitalized, but it seems no one really listen to the previous residents as well as other people there and the public. I hope through this work to gather all the voices and show a collective inclination instead of just some of a few officials' will. I'm glad audience respond vehemently. Thanks to Janey for suggesting me of adding this description.

The questions are: Seeing to the Future

Q1,
Where are you from?
I am ( 1, previous resident of Bo Pi Liao 2, Wanhua resident 3, from Taipei City 4, from other parts of Taiwan 5, foreigner ).

Q2,
In your opinion, what is Bo Pi Liao like?

Q3,
What do you wish to see for Bo Pi Liao's future? Why?

＊ Thank you for your answers. Would you like to leave your name and profession?
Yes, my name is ________________________. I am _______________________________.

HYPER-WORKS: Exhibition at KYU Art Center

My work in exhibition: Landscape series
(which applys Pila's work as the original; trys to make an argument responding to the exhibition's theme)

KYU Art Center's director Hui-Lan Chang invited artists from SLY Art Space to hold a group show in their gallery. After several sessions of discussion, finally the show opened yesterday.



It is quite interesting to visit a gallery so remote off Taipei and have a show there.

Some other works by SLY Art artists under the exhibition title of "HYPER-WORKS":

some more photos on the works in Ze Hui Lai

A colorful feast

Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture organized a workshop for me and Pila at TAV on Oct. 26, in which invites Southeast Asian migrant families to join the tablecloth project.

It was a fun occasion, with many volunteers showing up to help.

The result was tremendous.

With the previously shown tablecloth done by children from Donghouliao,

(see also: http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/angel-cat/article?mid=2124&prev=2133&next=2114)

together they make a big piece of meals, bounty and colorful, delicious to the eye!

作伙來 Ze Hui Lai

【作伙來Ze Hui Lai】

碧拉．塔妮雅 ＆ 周靈芝 聯展
Joint Exhibition by Prilla Tania & Julie Chou

展覽簡介

人類的遷徙影響著一塊土地的文化與自然環境。為了自身以及子子孫孫，人們找尋新的移居地。當不同的文化在同一片土地上激撞融合，便創造出一個多元的嶄新世界。

其中，食物絕對是人類生存所不可或缺的，因此飲食文化也隨著移民的腳步，擴散到世界各地，「食」變成為現代文化中重要的一環：人們相約外出用餐見面、邀請朋友一同用餐、藉由嘗試多元的料理以進一步了解不同的文化等…

‘作伙來’是一句口語台灣話，意思是’一起來’ 、’一起吃’ 。我們以它為展覽標題，表達一種邀請，邀請這塊土地上的人們一起來，一起分享彼此的生命和藝術。

碧拉．塔妮雅 & 周靈芝

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Introduction

The human migration has affected both cultural and natural environment of a certain place. People migrate to find a new home for themselves and sometimes for generations to come. Different cultures mix together in one piece of land creates a new diverse world. Food is one thing human can't live without, therefore the food and eating culture spread all over the world along with human migration. The eating itself has become an important thing in modern culture, people go out to eat to meet, people invite other people to eat, people tries different food to get to know little bit about other culture, etc.

‘Ze Hui Lai’ is a colloquil Taiwanese expression, which means get together or eat together. We use it as the title of the exhibition, to show a gesture of inviting: inviting people to come together; to get involved in, and to savor life and art in this land.

Prilla Tania & Julie Chou

'Too salty' in 'Ze Hui Lai'

Title of work: Too salty & documentation

Medium: Digital print, installation
Size of work:
Too salty: 180 x 135cm for landscape, 66 x 88cm x 4 x 2 for portrait
Documentation: 4 prints (54 x 40.5cm) on left wall, 2 prints on right wall, a small teatable at the right corner, a book on table
(Subject to change)


Concept:

It's all about community :D
Landscape and portraits.
Human and land.

The salination of soil that a small community in western Australia encountered represents one of the biggest issues of environmental and ecological concerns nowadays striking people hardly.
I ask ladies from the community to cook one best dish each for me with too much salt to address the problem of the land. It’s a work with community involvement and a work of warning from the community to audience to take seriously look at the environmental problems. Documentation from previous presentation is included in this exhibition as well.