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。