Taipei Everyday: A Traveler's Perspective

“Taipei Everyday: A Traveler's Perspective” In-Situ Art Exhibition @ The Place Taipei

2019 / 03 / 21 Thu.

2019 / 09 / 01 Sun.

10:00 - 21:00

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    南港老爺行旅

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Nangang, sitting on the bank of Keelung River, a tributary to Tamsui River, the largest freshwater river in northern Taiwan, is connected to Nangang Mountain System and Four Beasts Mountains along the area’s southern edge. In the end of the 19th century, plantation and production of Pouchong tea was introduced to the area, and the flourishing tea industry opened up a window to the world via waterways. After the tea industry declined due to instable situations around the world during the period of Japanese rule, brick kilns were subsequently built in the area and formed the foundation of Nangang’s old industrial zone. Today, the newly inaugurated Nangang Software Park puts the area on the world map again with its high-tech, low-polluting industries. Nangang welcomes global travelers to visit this east side of Taipei and appreciate its exquisite beauty that has evolved over the centuries. This collaboration exhibition embodies the curatorial efforts from both the MOCA Taipei and The Place Taipei by installing site-specific works created for the public spaces of the new hotel. It aims to provide worldwide visitors a chance to enjoy art and interact with it during their brief stay as a way to perceive the cultural heritage that permeates the daily life in Taipei. The exhibition is divided into three sections based on the space types, and artists specializing in their respective fields are invited to create customized works according to the unique spatial characteristics. Upon entering the welcome and reception area, visitors will see technology and mechanical installation artist YU Shih-Fu’s installation series, Go For a Ride, a work of light and sound variations that adopts the concept of “light travel” and the industrial image of Taiwan’s world-famous bicycle industry. The series brings to mind the well-designed bike trail network that encompasses urban districts as well as waterside and mountain areas, the city’s public bike system known to the world for its high usage, and the lifestyle that promotes health and sustainability in daily urban living. Upon their arrival, guests are immediately greeted with the impression formed by the gently turning wheels, the intermittent ringing of bike bells and a lively, endearing smile. Two soundscape works by sound artist Wu, Tsan-Cheng are showcased in the lobby on the 10th floor. Taiwan Sound Map Project - Taipei presents a Taiwan soundscape database filled with sounds throughout the island recorded by the artist. Instead of visually exploring the topography, a simple click on the online map enables the audience to construct the soundscape of the urban surrounding via the sense of hearing. Wanderer reveals a sound tapestry fabricated by weaving images and sounds of famous tourist spots in Taipei. A complete and direct audio-visual impression is therefore replaced by image and sound fragments that resonate with the audience’s life experiences and evoke memories buried deep inside travelers’ mind. For the dining space of The Place Taipei, the hotel’s culinary team collaborates with writers of various genres, including SHENG, HAO-WEI, Liu Hsing Yu, Dior Hou - Confession Box, Tsai Wan-Shuen, Yang Shuang Zi, Designsurfing and Charlie Chen to create and launch “Taipei Everyday: Taste and Text Project.” The project aims to pamper the diners’ taste buds while providing a window built with words to show the rich, multi-faceted everyday life in Taipei. Although travelers might have a limited stay to explore all corners and periods of the city, they can still literally have a taste of the life experiences that Taipei has offered. A member of The Place Group, a brand by Hotel Royal Group for glamorous light travel with refined design concept, The Place Taipei offers a one-of-a-kind experience that transcends language and sensory limits through art in-situ. It is hoped that, by connecting to worldwide travelers’ memories and combining them with the impressions of Taipei, a special resonance in time and space could be generated so that all visitors and travelers, regardless of their length of stay, would be able to discover something with themselves that echoes with the city in a memorable way.

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Artists

YU Shih-Fu
WU Tsan-Cheng
SHENG,HAO WEI
Liu Hsing Yu
Dior Hou - Confession Box
Wan-Shuen Tsai
Yang Shuang Zi
Designsurfing
Charlie Chen

YU Shih-Fu was Born in Miaoli, Taiwan in 1987. He graduated from the Department of Industrial Design, Shih Chien University, and the New Media Arts (MFA), Taipei University of the Arts. His works develop the uses of electronics, metals and machinery as art, mechanics for the narrative core, creating a dialogue with people through “Inorganic language”, describing their profound life experience, memories and feelings.

1973年生於臺灣雲林,國立臺灣師範大學美術系、國立臺南藝術大學造形藝術研究所畢業。發表了首件聲音裝置作品《夜鶯》,作品不斷實驗視覺與聲音的音像關係,認為聲音可以嵌入符號與訊息,牽引出震撼人心的力量,並觸動身體知覺產生情感連結,層層開啟聲音伏隱的豐富層次,如作品《N+Syn》中以早期夜視攝影機,藉由鏡頭低拍穿越草叢之際所產生的細微聲響,召喚感知經驗觸碰草叢的身體記憶,其中粗糙的視覺畫面,一反科技追求清晰高端影像的視像模式;他將影像投映於天花板上,使觀者在仰視疲累之際,低頭的片刻,聲音「自然」成為視覺之外被傾聽的主角。作為強調身體性參與的創作,他說:「視覺影像總能抓住你我的視線,將你引向某一方向,但是聲音必須由你走進,進入,穿越它,當你進入聲音時,你的身體會微妙地改變周圍的聲音,而聲音也將穿越你的身體」。以此開啟視像、聲訊、音景與感知在當代美學文化視野的面向探討。

Wu Tsan-Cheng was born in Yunlin, Taiwan in 1973. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, and the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. Wu’s work reveals an unending experimentation of the relationship between image and sound. His first sound installation was Nightingale. For him, symbols and messages can be embedded in sounds to generate powerful forces that trigger physical perception and emotional connection, unfolding rich, hidden layers in sounds. For example, in N+Syn, Wu used an early night-vision camera to film and capture from a low angle the rustling sound as he traversed an area of grass, evoking the memory of physical perception of touching grass and creating a contrast between the rough visuality and hi-definition images made possible by technology nowadays. Wu then projected the video on the ceiling; when audiences lowered their heads after feeling tired from looking up, sounds “naturally” replaced vision and became the dominant element at the moment. Putting an emphasis on bodily perception in his work, Wu said, “visual image can always catch our eyes and guide our attention to a certain direction; on the other hand, you must walk into and through sounds. When you enter an environment, your body will subtly change the surrounding sounds, and those sounds will go through your body as well.” With this concept in mind, Wu has opened up a different dimension in discussing image, sound, soundscape and perception in contemporary aesthetics and culture.

2009年萌生製作《臺灣聲音地圖》的構想,以十年的時間足跡遍及臺灣各地,實地集錄聲音並整合Google Maps地圖定位功能,完整呈現聲音的內容在時空變化過程中的差異與現象。近年仍持續此計畫,透過聲音地圖及其映射,讓觀者在聲音體驗中思考自身與生活環境的關係。

In 2009, Wu conceived the idea of Taiwan SoundMap Project, and planned to spend a decade to visit numerous locations in Taiwan to record and collect sounds. The project has also been integrated with the positioning function of Google Maps to fully represent the variations and phenomena in audio content in the changing time and space. The artist has been working on this project; and through his sound maps and what they have reflected, audiences are encouraged to contemplate on the relationship between their lives and the living environment in the sound experience.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1988, Sheng Hao-Wei graduated from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, and received his master degree from the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature. He was an exchange student to Japan’s Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo. His literary works have won the First Prize for Fiction of the TSMC Youth Prize for Literature, the Novel Prize of the NTU Literature Award and the First Prize for Prose of the United Daily News Prize for Literature. Apart from his published work The Thing Named I, he is the co-author of Key: Anecdotes of Glory Island and The Day When the War Ended: Stories of Taiwan’s War Generation, and 100 Years of Taiwan Literature: 1900-2000.

Liu Hsing-Yu was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Art History, Taiwan National University of the Arts, and received his MA in Art Theory from National Kaohsiung Normal University. An enthusiastic fan of the first-generation Pocket Monsters and an expert of Clow Cards, Liu also likes calligraphy and paintings from the Ming and Qing dynasties. He also practices calligraphy by imitating rubbings from ancient stone inscriptions while exploring paintings of the Zhe school. In the meantime, health-keeping and anti-aging regiments are important to him as well. Liu has a special preference for Tsai Ming-Liang’s movies with music and dance, and believes that the ultimate truth can be transmitted from lip syncing songs. He currently focuses on interdisciplinary characteristics in films and images on digital media, and attempts at writing about interdisciplinary works, hoping to interpret ancient calligraphy and painting from a contemporary perspective while moving toward becoming a curator and art critic.

Dior Hou was born in Kaohsiung. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature, Shih Hsin University. He had attempted to write in college, but unintentionally entered the world of cocktails and bartending and embarked on a journey of exploring alcoholic drinks and writing about them. He likes to find out stories behind each alcoholic drink, blending a sense of tipsiness with delicately crafted words. Making alcoholic drinks protagonists of his stories, Hou has enjoyed being an intoxicating storyteller. He published Confession Box: Thoughts and Stories from a Bartender in 2015 and Private Drinks from the Soil.
Facebook: Confession Box – Dior Hou.

Born in Penghu, Taiwan in 1978, Wan-Shuen Tsai grew up in Pengu and spent several years in France. She currently lives in Taipei and is a practitioner of plastic and visual art as well as a poet. She has published Tides, Strange Possessions, and Je voudrais me réveiller dans la mer, a poem collection co-written with her young daughter. Poet and director Hung Hung once described Tsai’s work in the following words: “Poetry must catch readers’ eyes with two basic elements. The first is sensitivity, and the “allergens” vary from case to case… Anything might catch a reader’s attention, but the post must have a keen sensitivity. The second is the ability to express it with a precise and fresh language. Tsai is capable of both, which is the reason why one falls for her works immediately.”

Yang Shuang-Zi is the pseudonym of Yang Ruo-Zi. She was born in Wuri, Taichung, Taiwan in 1984, and has a younger twin sister. She has a bachelor degree in Chinese Literature from National Chung Hsing University and a master degree from the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies from the same university. She writes novels of Yuri, historical and popular literature while extensively observing manga and anime sub-culture and popular literature. She is also enthusiastic about Taiwanese folk tradition. She has been awarded grants for writing from the National Culture and Arts Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and grants for writing master thesis from the Ministry of Education. Her published works include academic publication, popular novel, and fan fiction. She is currently fully committed to writing historical novels about Taiwan under Japanese rule.

Born in Taiwan in 1981, Designsurfing graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School in 2011, and founded the cultural platform, “Designsurfing,” for Taiwan and Japan’s designers and artists in 2015. More than exchanging cultural and art news between the two countries, the platform also assists with artwork production and curatorial projects, hoping to support artists in Taiwan and Japan with concrete actions to find their right markets. Designsurfing’s work mainly focuses on product design, matching services between Taiwan and Japan, design reviews, and also often contributes articles about design and interviews with Taiwanese and Japanese people in the creative industry for magazines and websites. Active in both cultural and art scenes in Taiwan and Japan, Designsurfing is also the agent and contact for Japanese artists represented by Admira Gallery as well as an editor for “Herenow Taipei,” a Japanese tourism media.

Charlie Chen graduated from the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration, National Sun Yat-sen University. He considers art investment his hobby, and runs a fashion blog called “My Bitchy Personal Opinions.” His childhood wish was to become a serious author with depth. However, life does not always follow one’s plans. He realizes that when people try to be serious, they often reveal their actual shallowness, and he just cannot help but adding a bit of humor when talking about profound topics. He once said, “Another wish of mine was to just look pretty, but that also turned out unsuccessful.” His published works include You Are What You Wear, Survival Guide in Social Occasions, MBPO on Romance, and I Need That in My Life.

Artworks

Go For a Ride
Taiwan Sound Map Project – Taipei
Wanderer
Taipei Everyday: Taste and Text Project
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