旅 埕-翰品高雄當代藝術展

Taipei Art Fair- 台北藝博 Made in Taiwan

SCHMIEDE Art Festival in Hallien, Austria

 Schmiede藝術季/ Hallein/ 奧地利

SCHMIEDE Art Festival in Hallien, Austria.

Sep 10-Sep 23, 2012

攜帶一個物件與你

影像聲音裝置

影像投影在描圖紙、膠、線、聲音：Casio CTK-3000合成器、聲學吉他、, RP-50作用踏板、 BOSS SP-303, Z00M R-16 錄音器、自製樂器（由各式物件：金屬、石、玻璃、提琴弦、麥克風等）

尺寸依空間而定

共同創作：康雅筑＆Christian Nicolay

2012

作品概念：

分別於生與死、知與未知價值，在論及東西方國家的文化下，透過人類的想像力以及對於儀式和迷信行為的窘異力行，有不同觀點。

在此次的作品計畫中，將延續“未知的禮物“作品的概念，發展出“可以帶走的一件物品”，同時邀請民眾參與，反問如果你只能攜帶一個物件離開人世，那麼會是什麼？參與者將以裸身手持物件遮住臉的方式被攝。人們通常對於在公開場合裸露身體感到不適，但或許會因為遮住臉部而隱藏身份而有安全感，他們的肢體動作將呈現出被攝者的心理狀態，身份在身體的意義中消減，影像中唯一的物件變得強烈，不同膚色體型的人種與物質的關連性，將衍繹出死亡與物質世界之間更寬廣的文化版圖與連結性。

在展場空間的裝置上，會有一個由紙衣著物堆積成像是塚的丘型，同時，也意味著如出生的孕育處，所有的攝影將輪番播放投影在這個塚/孕育處上。 這些紙衣著物均是輕薄、無色半透明的，像是覆蓋在身體表層的肌膚與膜，與裸身產生對話，而每一位參與者手持的物件，呈顯現代生活中介於種族與年代之間，其身理生活與物質文明的重要性。

Carry an object with you

Video Installation

Tracing paper, salt, video Projection, printed fabric, thread, candles, speakers, sound: Casio CTK-3000-synthesizer, Stagg acoustic guitar, RP-50 effect pedal, BOSS SP-303, Z00M R-16 recorder, home made instruments, amplified objects, violin pick-up, piezo microphones, lungs

Variable dimensions

Collaboration: Christian Nicolay & Ya-chu Kang

2012

The separation between life and death, known and unknown is valued and dealt with in many ways from Western and Eastern cultures through the humans’ imagination and complex practices of burial ceremonies, rituals and superstition. People try to send wishes, thoughts, memories and love using daily objects from the real world to send to another world with the deceased after death.  In the Carry an object with you project, we keep developing our research with traditional funerary practices abroad and invite people to participate. 

If you could take only one thing with you when you die what would it be?  

All the participators are photographed in the nude holding the object they would take with them after death in front of their face. The identity is eliminated from the participant and makes the object become more important.  The photographs are projected onto a sculptural installation and accompanied by a sound composition.

The installation was display during the SCHMIEDE Art Festival in Hallien, Austria.

現地創作工作狀態

 開幕 Opening

藝術季期間藝術家進駐廠房

Culture Picnic 文化野餐

Upcoming exhibition-展覽預告

Culture Picnic 文化野餐

56號屋帳/ No. 56 Yurt

56號屋帳

材質：羊毛、線、木條、燈、素描

2012

No. 56 Yurt

Material: Wool, thread, wood, light, drawing

2012

Review- The Liberty Time Newspaper

自由時報導

Fiber Art Now Review 現今纖維藝術雜誌藝評

Fiber Art Now Magazine, Spring 2012 Vol. 1 Issue 3, USA, pg. 14-16

現今纖維藝術雜誌/ 2012春季號/ Vol. 1/ 美國/ 第14-16頁

Portable Walls

port·a·ble walls

1, a temporary or nomadic shift serving to enclose, divide, protect or change ones identity (i.e.: your identity shifts depending on where you are). 2, To adapt to ones surroundings. 3, What is destroyed is reborn (i.e.: A wall is meant to set a barrier from one area to another, but making it portable means you have to set it up and take it down each time).

4, Fluctuating re-occurrences. 5, Paradigm shift. 6, A person who creates more than one identity, traces of digital footprints, profiles and usernames. 7, Cultural landscapes that become crisscrossed and blurred from globalization, shifting borders, war, geo-politics, digital revolution, travel, re-location, etc. 8, paying attention to the constant flux of rules, regulations, definitions, checks and changes on privacy laws and the ability to relearn what is learned.

Wash

Video Installation, soap sculpture/ Collaboration work with Christian Nicolay

Installation View

Healing

Collaboration work Christian Nicolay

Safety Instructions

mixed media on paper on panel/ Collaboration work with Christian Nicolay

Knot Covering- Comic book Kimono - Ya-chu Kang

Comic book paper, newspaper, Japan Resist dyeing paper, packaging rope, tape, threads/ 59” x 31.5” x 63”/ 2010

Showtime 1-10 - Ya-chu Kang

Pornographic Comic Book Paper, Wrapping Paper, Handmade Paper, Taiwanese Culture Paper, Paper Doilies, Foam, Glue./ 11.8” × 11.8” (each)/ 2011

Heroic Bearing 1-8 - Ya-chu Kang

Hero Comic Book Paper, Chinese Washi Paper, Scanned Fabric Printed Paper, Wrapping Paper, Foam, Glue/ 11.8” × 11.8” (each)/ 2011

Beauty and the Hero 1-4 - Ya-chu Kang

Comic Book Paper, Chinese Washi Paper, Taiwanese Culture Paper, Scanned Fabric Printed Paper, Paper Doilies, Tissue Paper, Foam, Glue./ 19.3” x 19.3” (each)/ 2012

Bag-Self-Portrait Series No.7& 8 & 9 &10 - Ya-chu Kang

Mailed Cardboard Box Paper, Adhesive Tapes, Stickers, Threads, Mailed Stamp, Wrapping Material / Sculpture/ 2011-2012

Country Flag - Ya-chu Kang

China Flag, USA Flag, Wood, Photo Print, Paint/ 41.3” x 36.8”/ 2012

Occupy 1.2.3 - Ya-chu Kang

Graphite, Pencil, Water colour, Detritus on Paper/ 19.4” x 12.9” (each)/ 2011

Cover the Bird 1.2 - Ya-chu Kang

Wool, threads, fabric, beads/ 16.7” x 25.6”/ 2011-2012

With Two -headed Rabbit - Ya-chu Kang

Wool, threads, fabric/ 16.7” x 25.6”/ 2012

Under Face Clay - Ya-chu Kang

Wool, threads, fabric, clay/ 27.7”x 44.2” / 2012

”動牆“展是以探討當代社會中，對於許多社會規範、條例、個人隱私的檢查、保安與身份、男性與女性、東方與西方、邊界與境域的範疇下，社會環境與國家情境所導致塑造出的個體所產生的對話與共鳴，透過作品去探究討論。例如在美國911事件之後，申請入境美國變得困難，不僅止是對於中東或亞洲人種，連同緊鄰的加拿大也持非友善態度，這是對全世界保安檢查建立，並持續的增長與改變，規定越來越多，安全感卻越來越低。

展覽不僅在此議題下凸顯台灣亞洲文化、主權的特性與西方社會權勢的關係，並間接影響創作者在身分與社會這一層架構上的表現。除了共通的議題外，兩位藝術家都在藝術的表現與形式上，處理生活周遭的現成物與多樣化的文化風景。透過此展覽，藝術家質問文化界線與社會架構下的人民身份，以及如何在全球化快速發展的社會下，辨識自我身份，以及個體身份的相互交織迷離、模糊不清。