【 2019 Next Art Tainan: Invisible】
Curator
Ming Turner (Associate Professorat the Institute of Creative Industries Design and Techno Art Program at National Cheng Kung University) Artists
Hung Yu-Hao x Mike Stubbs (UK) Date 2019 / 03 / 14 - 2019 / 04 / 14
Opening 2019 / 03 / 17 (Sun.) 3pm
Artist talk 2019 / 03 / 17 (Sun.) 3:30pm 【Curatorial Statement】 The title of the 2019 Next Art Tainan exhibition is "Invisible Dimensions", which aims to represent the diversity of contemporary art, and both the visible and the invisible landscape and culture. The exhibition visualizes three dimensional people and objects, and through the artists’ imagination and their reinterpretation of life, the work also visualizes the invisible trans-dimensions of our everyday life, such as the abstract concepts of time, humanity and philosophy. 2019 Next Art Tainan aims to support emerging and talented young artists by inviting specially selected established artists to exhibit their work alongside theirs, as a result of which the art will have a dialogue and will respond to each other. The themes of the exhibited work cover both recognizable and conceptual aspects of our surroundings, including the prosperity of our urban landscape, historical artifacts and their cultural connotations, the ambiguities of gender, the melancholy of abandoned relics, discourses pertaining to housing, the dramatic effect of grassroots culture, scooter culture and the uncertainties being faced by the younger generations. The exhibition features ten groups of artists from Taiwan, the UK and Norway, from a diverse range of generations and cultural backgrounds, who will exhibit their works in ten different galleries across Tainan. The project features a representation, construction and deconstruction of the visible living environment and its people, as well as challenging and re-considering the exiting, yet invisible, dimensions of life, society and culture. The exhibited works include paintings, multi-media, new media, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and computer-generated images, among others. 2019 Next Art Tainan presents a range of excellent artworks created by artists of different generations, and furthermore, by inviting international artists to create site-specific work in Taiwan, the project expects to embrace more contemporary and international visions and ambitions, and thereby draw attention to the senses of contemporaneity, diversity and sensitivity in art in Tainan city.
【About the Curator】 Ming Turner is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Creative Industries Design and the Master Program on the Techno Art at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), and she is also the head of exhibitions of the NCKU Art Center. She is currently the chairperson of Taiwan Women’s Art Association. She was awarded her PhD in Art History and Theory at Loughborough University, UK (with an Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) granted by the UK government). She has published widely in both English and Chinese, including The Art of Contemporary Curation and Its Realisation: Body, Gender and Technology (Taipei: Wu-Nan Publishing, 2018), East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (2016), Crossing Borders: Transition and Nostalgia in Contemporary Art (Taipei: Artouch, 2015), Else Art Journal (2014), n.paradoxa (2010, 2012), and Gender and Women’s Leadership (London: Sage, 2010). She has curated various projects internationally, including Femi-Flow: Creating Female Subjectivity in Art (National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, 2018-2019), L.A.B: 2018 NCKU Bi2ennial – Technology and Art (NCKU Art Center, 2018-2019), Bodyscape: Patricia Piccinini (Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, 2016), Surface Epidermis: Phil Sayers (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2015), Pop-up Republics (Asia Triennial Manchester, UK, 2014) and Post-humanist Desire (MOCA Taipei, 2013-2014), among others. 【About Artist Hung Yu-Hao】 Born in Taipei in 1989, Huang earned an MFA degree from the New Media Art Institute of National Taiwan University of Arts. The theme of his artworks focus on virtuality and reality in new media contexts, which are represented in geographical images and as social cognition. He has participated in the following exhibitions: solo exhibition "On Fluid Street" (NTMOFA), solo exhibition "Drifting District" (Waley Art) and the "6th Mediation Biennale", Poznan, Poland, among others. He received the Gold Medal of the "2018 National Art Exhibition, ROC", and first prize of the "2017 Keelung Art Exhibition". Some of his artworks are held in the collections of the Art Bank, Ministry of Culture, and in Yo-Chang Art Museum. In Taiwan, post-colonial traces can be seen in the Wanhua District of Taipei, which was prosperous in the past. Wanhua became the oldest urban district in Taipei because of it being the earliest development area in Taipei. The traditional markets and the ageing sex workers who were based here now co-exist in the contemporary market space. The culture in Wanhua is mixed with its traditional local culture, a unique landscape, and the sex industry. Hung utilizes 3D scanning to capture the lanes and maps, and re-makes the old city, showing the ongoing flux of cultural appearances. The city echoes the historical images of the past, which converges with those of the present day. 【About Artist Mike Stubbs】 The artist's work encompasses video, performance and new media installation. Exploring themes such as power, technology, work and identity, much of his work has been made with people through a process of interdisciplinary research. Stubbs has exhibited internationally, including at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, EAF, Adelaide, Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, BALTIC Art Centre, Gateshead and MIC, Aukland, and he has work in the collections of ACMI, Melbourne and the Science Museum, London. Awards include: 1st prize "Independent Celtic Film Festival"; Golden Pencil, "Locarno Film Festival", Barbara London Prize, "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial", Japan; "Golden Phoenix, Monte Negro Media Art Festival", Serbia. and 1st prizes "Oberhausen", Graz & Osnabruk. Stubbs also works as a curator, and has been recently appointed as Creative Producer, Creative Doncaster 20-22. Prior to this, he was Director of FACT, Liverpool, and jointly appointed Professor of Art, Media and Curating, at Liverpool John Moores University. In 2017, Stubbs co-curated "No Such Thing As Gravity", with Rob La Frenais at NTMOFA, Taichung. In 2004, he received a Fleck Fellowship from Banff Art Centre, Canada, and he made a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He was educated at the Royal College of Art, Cardiff Art College of Art and Mander College, Bedford. Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau of Tainan City Co-organizer: Absolute Space for the Arts Sponsor: National Culture and Arts Foundation