Rooftop─Chu ChunTeng Solo Exhibition

2019 / 06 / 01 Sat.

2019 / 07 / 28 Sun.

10:00 - 18:00

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MOCA Studio

About

Throughout the history of China, Yunnan’s Tengchong sits on the rich natural resource from Mt. Gaoligong and has witnessed the Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan; moreover, the city is most known for its production of jadeite and the practice of stone gambling, which refers to betting on the value of raw jadeite stones because it is impossible to determine a jadeite stone’s worth before it is cut open and polished. Jadeite has always been an important cultural symbol in Chinese culture. However, since China does not have any jadeite mines, the country relies on importing the precious stone from Burma, rendering Tengchong a crucial geographical gateway for jadeite import, export as well as jadeite processing businesses in China and giving birth to the local culture of stone gambling. In April 2018, Chu ChunTeng arrived at this border city close to the boundary between China and Burma, and his first impression of it was its innumerous stone processing factories and jadeite products found everywhere in the city. A seemingly ordinary stone can be processed and turned into a precious, valuable piece of jadeite jewelry. The frenzy demonstrated by the locals and tourists towards the raw jadeite stones made Chu wonder about the significance and meaning of a stone. One of the most eye-catching event for Chu in Tengchong was that thousands of people would gather at a certain site to dig jadeite in the city’s historic town. In the past few years, urban renewal plans have been carried out in the historic town of the city; and whenever an old building was torn down, thousands of people would come afterwards and hope to find some of the leftover jadeite thrown away and buried at the site since the Ming and Qing dynasties. The incessant hammering created countless deep holes on the ground, in which hundreds of people would still be digging inside. It was a surreal scene reminiscent of an archaeological site. Chu could not help but wondering what motivated these people to dig as if all their future hopes relied on this never-ending action. The organizer of this artist residency is the largest real estate developer in Yunnan, and the residency venue locates in its latest development project covering the land of sixty four thousand hectares. Upon arrival at the venue, my the artist’s entire body was conquered by the comfortable atmosphere that this neighborhood of villas was immersed in. Nevertheless, as the artist’s stay unfolded, a sense of unrealness and detachment grew stronger and stronger. It was until one day that Chu encountered the cleaning lady whose job was to clean the display house that this feeling vanished. The cleaning lady’s job was to keep everything immaculate, and therefore, no one knew the display in the house better than her. However, she was not allowed to sit or leave any traces of her existence in the house. This encounter immediately pulled Chu back into reality. He had been living in a dream-like world constructed and maintained by others. Each day of her life started with routine cleaning of every corner of the house, but in a way, she was simply a passenger trapped inside of the model home. Chu’s three-week stay in Tengchong put him through a journey of traversing through a parallel universe charged with desires. Whenever he was amazed by the locals’ heartwarming friendliness and the scenic nature, he was also torn by the unignorable conflicts and contradictions between reality and future, which pushed him into a vortex similar to the life of the jadeite miners who have been stuck in a cycle of digging, waiting and digging again.

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Artists

Chu ChunTeng

Chu ChunTeng

Born in 1982, Taipei / London

Chu ChunTeng received his M.F.A. from Goldsmith University of London.

He made a number of feature films and participated in international film festivals when he was still in university. Upon receiving his B.A. film degree, he shifted his direction toward fine art, working on installation and video. Chu is deeply concerned with the dilemma of the individual in modern society, in particular man’s existence, social hierarchy, and political conflicts, which he explores in his art practice.

He has exhibited extensively, including the 2014 Taipei Biennial — The Great Acceleration, Kunsthaus Esse, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, Glasgow Center for Contemporary Arts, and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2013 Chu ChunTeng founded a co-working art space "Polymer" in Taipei, which promotes interdisciplinary art practices and artistic experiments, and served as its first executive director until 2015.

Collection

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts

Education

2008 - 2010 MFA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2002 - 2006 Shih Hsin University, Department of Film, Taipei, Taiwan

Prize

“2012 Taipei Art Award” Honorable Mention
“2011 Taipei Art Award” Honorable Mention
“2011 Celeste Art Prize” Video short list

Solo Exhibition

2017
• “Parallel”, Hung Foundation MEME Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2016
• “Idling”, Tong Gallery+ Projects, Beijing, China

2013
• “OK, I am flying…”, Art Issue Project Room, Taipei, Taiwan

2012
• “My Name is Little Black - Chu ChunTeng solo exhibition”, Association of the Visual Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibition

2018
• “Under the Great Leader: Contemporary Human Rights Exhibition”, National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Lifetime Warranty - The Romance of Home Appliances”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2015
• “Dreams‧Habitations - NTMoFA Young Artist Collection Exhibition”, National Taiwan museum if Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “These Stories Began Before We Arrived”, Te Tuhi gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
• “<- ->”, A+ Contemporary , Shanghai,
• “These Stories Began Before We Arrived”, Woolloomooloo, Taiwan

2014
• “2014 Taipei Biennial - The Great Acceleration”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
• "The Return of Analog Poetry" MOT/ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan

2013
• “InToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 – MicroCities”, The NARS Foundation. New York, USA
• “Mental-Logue / Monster-Logue”, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Escape from the Religion of Cracker”, Shin Len Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Stranger”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• “Uneasy Trip in Asia”, Start Gallery. Beijing, China

2012
• “2012 Taipei Art Award”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
• “Legends in city”, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei ,Taiwan
• “CAFAM future Biennial”, Cafam Museum, Beijing, China
• “I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE", Kunsthaus Essen, Germany
• “Philosopher's (knock-off) Stone: Turning Gold into Plastic", Osage gallery, Hong Kong
• Boundaries on the Move: Taiwan - Israel, a Cross-culture Dialogue, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

2011
• “2011 Taipei Art Award”, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
• “Producing Censorship”, The Invisible Dog, New York, USA
• “PERIPHERIES”, 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, UK
• “Bonds of Affection”, Association of the Visual Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Plug in ╳ Add on: a rehearsal of potential connection between two cities”, Rag Factory, London, UK
• “Republic without People”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
• “Window”, Tina Keng Gallery TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
• “Site of Flesh and Stone”, Simotas Building, Istanbul, Turkey

2010
• “ViVa Festival”, HARA Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• “Measurement of the Other”, Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
• “2010 Goldsmith MFA Fine Art degree show”, goldsmith large bath, London, UK
• “Like Tears in Rain”, Palácio das Artes - Fábrica de Talentos, Porto, Portugal
• “PAUSE AND EJECT 2”, Shoreditch Townhall, London, UK
• “Encounters With the Line”, Glasgow Center for Contemporary Arts, UK

2009
• “Zoo Art Fair 2009”, London, UK
• “The Simply Art of Parody”, Taipei Contemporary Art Museum, Taiwan
• “Viva Festival”, Espacio Digital, Gran Canaria, Spain
• “Viva Festival”, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Spain
• “PAUSE AND EJECT”, The Rag Factory, London, UK

2007
• “RESTLESS Explores Contemporary Photography and New Media Today”, Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, China
• Golden Lion international student short film prize, Taiwan

2006
• “The 28th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival”, Clermont-Ferrand France
• “The 6th Lille International Film Festival”, Lille, France
• “The 19th Singapore International Film Festival”, Singapore
• “The 7th Seoul international Film Festival”, Seoul, Korean

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