An Island without Boundary – Hung Yun-Ting Solo Exhibition

【An Island without Boundary – Hung Yun-Ting Solo Exhibition】

Date｜2018/10/11 Thu. - 11/11 Sun. Opening｜10/13 Sun. 15:00 Forum｜10/27 Sun. 15:00 Guest｜Chao-Ying Lee

【Statement】 “This century is a century of dramatic liquidity expansion, manifested in tourism, labor migration, immigration and urbanization. More and more people are starting to live on vehicles, automotive vehicles and airplanes ... Leaving home doesn't mean you can find something new and experience another time or space. Unfamiliar things tend to linger in neighborhoods, while familiar things appear at the end of the earth. ” - James Clifford In “An Island without Boundary”, Hung Yun-Ting is inspired by the frequent international mobility in recent years. We all know that the labor migration has accelerated the flow of human beings. Travel has become a common and normal life style, and we have quickly created a world outside our own country; a cultural colonial world that tends to form the same preferences and the same language. However, this unbalanced condition that is away from everyday life and being forced to face strangers is truly reflected in this reality. In such an era of dramatic expansion, language, institutions, functions, and so on are all circulated on the same platform, and the world is moving toward to homogenization, generalizing cultural differences. At the same time, the Internet re-activated the ancient transmission method of our correspondence, but it was manipulated in a sense of writing without distance, yet direct and instant. The waiting period which could be the most fascinating part within the whole communication process disappeared. The relationship between people did not get closer due to globalization, but it was reflected on the dimensions and scale of the distance between people and architecture. As the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi mentioned, “the greatness of Rome is actually drawing the distance away from you and the person you’re looking for, increasing the number if stairs walking toward him……” This exhibition aims to remind us the current era of contradictory, which becomes bigger yet smaller and moving toward both globalization and alienation through objects used and rituals operated when traveling and moving. It also represents each kind of speeds and the fluidity woven by such speeds through the artistic practices; constructing a imagined space and a world of dynamic movement of subject/object, object/self and mental/physical condition.

// About Hung Yun-Ting // Born in 1981, currently lives in Kaohsiung and works at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan, Taiwan. Also the main convener of Osmosis Audiovisual Medis Festival in Taipei and the artistic director of tamtamART Art Association in Berlin/Taipei. // Selected Solo Exhibitions // 2016 Do/Through/Measure, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2015 One way ticket, Art8, Hsinchu, Taiwan // Selected Group Exhibitions // 2018 Exchanging Views, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2018 f(r)iction in between, Werkschauhalle – Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany 2018 Here And There, Treasure Hill Light Festival, Treasure hill artist village, Taipei, Taiwan // Curating // 2018 “Data Mania, CCI Fabrika”, Moscow, Russia 2017 “Osmosis Adiovisual Media Festival 2017”, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 “Osmosis Adiovisual Media Festival 2016”, Taipei/Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2015 “Osmosis Adiovisual Media Festival 2015”, Taipei/Hsinchu/Taichung/Kaohsiung, Taiwan Organizer: Absolute Space for the Arts Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City