"Dreamlover'' — Ho, Ming-Kuei × Juan, Yung-Han

【"Dreamlover'' –All is fantasized, only love is real. In dreams we meet and fall in love with each other.】 Bride- Ho, Ming-Kuei Bridegroom- Juan, Yung-Han Wedding Reception｜6/4 Sat. 15:00 Location-Absolute Space for the Arts Host- Huang, Yen-Ying Family Gathering「MOMO vs Liu-yeh」 Session1 6/18 Sat. 18:00 Session2 7/3 Sun. 18:00 ＃ Each time is limited for 20 people, please register in advance.Call us: 06-2233508 【Statement】 On April 3rd, 2013, Ho, Ming-Kuei woke up from a dream. She carried a habit of taking down bizarre dreams, so she wrote in her dream book, “ I dreamed I married a man, and lived with his big family in an apartment. Rooms were small, and the center was the public space, like the bathroom. The kitchen was in the corner, and the room was outward like a balcony with a window facing the street. The room was only big enough to have a double bed, and a walk-in closet. There were men and women in the family, in which everyone took turns cooking. The female group was called MOMO, and the male group was called Liu-yeh.” She didn't only take down her marriage with a man in the dream book, but also drew a construction plan for the man’s house in the dream. Ho, Ming-Kuei, waking up from the dream, although she didn't see the man she married in the dream, but the sweet happiness and the sense of security were aroused after her dream. The project “Dreamlover” will integrate two artists’ ways of dealing with dream. It starts with Ho, Ming-Kuei’s dream, inviting Juan, Yung-Han to enter it. Two people will be acting as directors and actors, rebuilding the new marriage that Ho, Ming-Kuei shared with her dream husband and reaching it into the real life. For the first time that two people push the scale of dream to the full extreme in this rebuilding. By combining it with the intervention of real action, they represent the illusion that is both real and fictitious. The project is divided into three parts: 1) The representation of Ho, Ming-Kuei’s dream. Based on Ho, Ming-Kuei’s description taken down in the dream book and the construction plan she drew, the artists aim to materialize them. 2) To enrich the narration of her dream and reconcile the reality with it, Juan, Yung-Han reproduces her dream husband’s studio. 3) Followed by designed circumstances and directions, the record of their gifts, trips, emotive pictures and plain words will be posted on the social network to co-construct the various forms of dream realization. During the exhibition, the lifestyle of the male and female group‘s cooking pattern happening in the dream will be continued. They will invite their family and friends to extend the intimate interactions in real time and space. Two artists will rebuild the implicit satisfaction of the dream in real life by their respective art practice. When the representation and the weaving of their dreams are juxtaposed, what they are trying to question is how to visualize their non-compromise on dreams on the basis of their respective compromise. And the feelings in dream, no matter as to happiness or fear, how are they transformed into a real narration in terms of the comparison that are presented in the social network, love tokens or on-the-spot settings?

Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Cultural Affairs Bureau Tainan City Government