Arctic Diary: The Wrong Ice A Solo Exhibition by Kuang-Yu Tsui

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Arctic Diary: The Wrong Ice A Solo Exhibition by Kuang-Yu Tsui

2012 / 04 / 13 Fri.

2012 / 05 / 20 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

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About

This work was produced for the 2009 Arctic Circle expeditionary residency program organized by the U.S. Farm Foundation for the Arts & Sciences (FFAS). The film was shot on location in Spitzbergen, Norway and in Taipei, Taiwan. In October of 2009, our group of artists and scientists set sail for the island of Spitzbergen, where each of us embarked upon our specific projects and research plans. In the extremity of this natural environment, I contemplated how I might use the various resources brought by our group, representing a microcosm of civilization. Perhaps here, I would unveil some intangible system that responds to the urban life that we are all too familiar with. Ultimately, however, with limited access to resources, the harsh environmental and other mitigating circumstances, this meant that this expedition turned into an exercise in self-exhaustion against the face of rugged nature; as well as a journal documenting the limits of my own creativity as I confront an environmental extreme. Upon my return to Taipei, the memory of the expedition gave me a new starting point in my continued focus on urban perspectives and pulses as I attempted to respond to and organize the powerlessness and conflicts I felt on my journey to the Arctic Circle. Perhaps, what this journey truly showed me was that the island of Spitzbergen in the Arctic Circle was a mirror. The journey unveiled the expectations and disappointments that travelers carried with them to the island. It projects an intermittent silhouette of the values of human society as it responds to extreme environmental conditions. Everyone clung to their own convictions as their limits were put to the test; they gathered up what incomplete and broken environmental resources they could find to support the needs of their ideological framework. Persisting in maintaining the shape of this framework as they waited for the unpredictable changes and uncertainties in next midnight sun.

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Artists

TSUI Kuang-Yu

Born 1974 in Taipei, lives and works in Taipei now.

EDUCATION

BFA, National Institute of the Arts (Taipei National University of the Arts)

AWARDS

2003 Taishin Arts Award / Jury’s Special Award for The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui in IT Park, Gallery& Photo Studio"
2008 Taishin Arts Award/ The Visual Arts Award for The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Invisible City, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui in Eslite gallery

RESIDENCY

2004 Gasworks Studio, London, GB
2006-2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Stichting Trustfonds, Amsterdam, NL
2008 OK Centrum, Linz, AT
2009 Red Stable, The LAB / Dublin City Council, Dublin, IE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Arctic Diary: The Wrong Ice─ Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2008 Absence – 1995 and 2005 Documenta, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio, Taipei
2007 The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Invisible City, Solo Exhibition by K.Y Tsui, Eslite Gallery, Taipei,
2006 The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Crevice, Solo Exhibition by K.Y Tsui, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, GB
2006 The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: City Spirits, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio, Taipei
2005 You So Crazy: Kuang-Yu Tsui’s Video Works, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, US
2002 The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, IT Park Gallery& Photo Studio, Taipei
2001 Chien. Kuang. Huei Taking a Shortcut, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui, Prototype Art Gallery, Tainan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Boundaries on the Move Taiwan –Israel a Cross-culture Dialogue, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL
Third Show: The Urban Condition-Works from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Mani House, Tel Aviv, IL
Sincere Subversion, VT Art Salon, Taipei
Moving Image in China 1988-2011, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT
2011 VIDEONALE, Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, Taichung, TW
Moving Image in China 1988-2011, Minsheng Gallery of Mordern Art, Shanghai, CN
SAMSUNG Media Art Exhibition: Dream_WhiteNight, Daegu City Hall square, Daegu, KR
Experimenta: Utopia Now, International Biennial of Media Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG), Melbourne, AU
Republic without People, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TW
Arte da Taiwan: La nuova generazione, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, IT / Roma Spazio Espositivo EX GIL, Roma, IT / Roma Spazio Espositivo EX GIL, Roma, IT
Window, TINA KENG Gallery, Taipei, TW
A Lesson of Extremes, Osage Gallery, Kwun-Tong, CN
Video Taïwan, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR
Scanning the Daily Lives－Highlights of New Media Arts from the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW

Artworks

How to deal with yourself in-between your best friend and Polar Bear

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