Kalentura/Fever/Tio̍h-sua

Kalentura/Fever/Tio̍h-sua

Duration｜2024.11.23 (Sat.) -12.29(Sun.)

Artists｜

Sowyee Au、 Jaekyung Jung、Chihhung Liu、Yu Liu 、Arvin Nogueras、Posak Jodian、Veejay Villafranca、Costantino Zicarelli

Curators｜

Tessa Maria Guazon、Nobuo Takamori

Opening｜11/23 (Sat.) 15:00

Performance & Guided Tour｜11/23 (Sat.) 15:30-17:30

Forum｜11/24 (Sun.) 14:00-17:30

Speakers｜

Nobuo Takamori、Chihhung Liu、Posak Jodian、Guan-Jhang Chen、Tessa Maria Guazon

Workshop｜11/16 Sat. 15:00 - 17:00

Curator / Tessa Maria Guazon

　　Fever Dream introduces the long-term collaborative curatorial project between art institutions and spaces in the Philippines, Panama, Taiwan, and South Korea. The geographical locations may seem disparate at the outset– they do not point to any readily coherent geographic cluster. However, our pervasive world realities and shared aspirations towards experimenting with the exhibitionary, altering temporal rhythms and dislodging locational positions, brought us together.

　　The project Fever/Kalentúra/Tióh sua/Bal-yeol speaks to a shared planetary condition that shapes how we determine and consider our shared futures. It references a corporeal state of heat, alternately unbearable and tolerable, which signals something is amiss. It also speaks to the inextricable time worlds that shape how we act upon the world: the rush of our lives, the urgency of the burning earth, and the threat of plagues decimating ecosystems big and small. We are constantly under duress, hurtling towards self-inflicted destruction. On the other hand, the curatorial idea also references a state of expansiveness and contraction, the wondrous smallness of things, and the encompassing embrace of life forces beyond human comprehension. Thus, Fever Dream is a paradoxical state of illusion and dreaming, simultaneously coming to terms with the graspable and the impossible that underlie our shared realities.

　　The project adapts fever’s gradational condition through an exhibitionary sensibility. It employs an experiential frame that juxtaposes a fragmented sequence against the temporal frenzy of the contemporary art world. Participating artists and their works will be introduced in segments over four weeks with intervening public events. You will be invited to enact slow time through the artworks, dancing alongside them in a protracted rhythm of sensing and imagining.

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About Curator

Tessa Maria Guazon

Tessa Maria Guazon's recent curatorial projects include Fever Dream, a collaboration with MAC (Museo de Arte de Contemporaneo) in Panama City, Panama, Absolute Art Space in Tainan, Taiwan and an art space in Incheon, South Korea; the 2021 Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Panit Bukog (Skin and Bone) 5: Contemporary Art from Mindanao, Southern Philippines in Cagayan de Oro City, Phantasmapolis x AAB Biennial, an iteration of the Asian Art Biennial at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.She was affiliated as a researcher in residence with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. She is Curator of the UP Vargas Museum and is Associate Professor at the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Nobuo Takamori

Independent curator; selected important exhibition curatorial works include “South country, South of Country”, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2014 “The Return of Ghosts”, “Is/In-Land: Mongolian Taiwanese Contemporary Art Exchange Project”, and “The Secret South: from Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection”.

Presented by｜ Absolute Space for the Arts

Space Sponsorship｜ National Culture and Arts Foundation

Exhibition Sponsorship｜ Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government