Curators: ZhangXu Zhan, Chen Hsiang-Wen
Expanded Experimental Animation Festival is a curatorial study on the relationship between experimental animation and contemporary video art. Since 2014, the festival has focused on different curatorial themes. Expanded Experimental Animation Festival I showcased videos that illustrated the context of experimental animation and contemporary art. Experimental Animation Festival II ─ Sadako's Revenge explored the subjects of plastic arts, video installation, and expanded video after animation was released from its original interface and framework. Expanded Experimental Animation Festival III ─ Endocrine is curated by ZhangXu Zhan and Chen Hsiang-Wen, and concentrates on the video content. It showcases six artists' animation and video works that display the characteristics of "endocrine," which embody the beginning of puberty, the sarcastic fantasy, the things that are holy and pure, or the ambiguous sexual imagination. Through their works, the artists tackle these explicit issues with images of child-like innocence.
Li Yi-Fan's Walking in the Beach imitates early B-movies and creates a coarse, violent and pornographic puppet animation. Chung Cheng-Hsu's Je te hais depicts the subtle relationship between lovers, conducting a dialectic dialogue with the self through memory to find the sincere and honest self. Through the protagonist's fantastic experience in a bathroom, Huang Tsai-Yi's Miss As If, I Can't Sleep beckons at the dilemma of modern people, who are endlessly haunted in an environment of incredible pressure. Young Gym-Jack's Cat Cha-Cha perceives different states of things and creates another self or environment with these impressions in the subconscious. In Map Poetry/Handsome Boy and Map Poetry/Pretty Girl, Chang Po-Chieh uses Taipei City as a base and searches "handsome boy" and "pretty girl" on Google Map. The artist creates a text based on the false information found on the search engine, and explores the relationship between the self and the city. ZhangXu Zhan's Animation Daily: 1&2 portrays real events, people, and things, which are appropriated and fabricated into the video, documenting the artist's fantasies with animation of real events.
Venue: Activity Hall of MOCA, Taipei
*Parts of the films include violent content and nudity, and will only be screened at the Activity Hall of MOCA, Taipei. Viewers under 18 must be accompanied by adults.
Due to other exhibition events, the festival will be suspended on the following dates:
6/11(sat.), 6/12(Sun.), 6/17(Fri.), 6/18(Sat.), 6/19(Sun.), 6/25(Sat.), 6/26(Sun)