台北當代藝術館 官方網站 Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

策展人 Curator ─ 黃香凝 Anita HUANG 參展藝術家 Artists ─ 余政達 Yu Cheng-Ta、葉覓覓 Ye Mimi、陳含瑜 Hanyu Chen、Sputniko! 卡拉ok文化在80年代從日本傳來台灣，伴唱帶業者為因應需求，開始自製伴唱帶的影像，期待「依歌詞意境據實拍攝」。同個時期，全台灣第一支MV-劉文正「飛鷹」也開始曝光，結合歌手的偶像明星魅力，逐漸成為流行音樂宣傳的重要工具。1989年，全台第一家KTV於林森北路開張，結合當時最流行的MTV影音包廂與卡拉ok功能，在流行音樂文化的推動起了重大的功能。慢慢地，KTV的成功營運模式逐漸傳回日本；而卡拉ok就漸漸四散在家庭、餐廳、與鄉間的各個角落，成為眾人短暫逃脫生活壓力的消遣活動。 「是誰在唱歌?」展覽邀請了四位藝術家，跳脫MV炫麗吸睛的商業風格，及伴唱帶的影像風情營造，重新探索歌唱的行為與影像展演的生成意義。余政達的《歌唱練習：日文歌》討論日本文化移植到台灣後，意義已然喪失，僅剩聲音符號依舊被傳唱；葉覓覓的《南無撿破爛菩薩》，以平實幽默的影像風格與素人演員呈現庶民精神；陳含瑜的《印尼Sungai Duri卡拉OK記憶計畫》則是紀錄友人阿琴在台及印尼家鄉親友的生活影像，用影像及歌唱串起漂泊的生命；Sputniko!的《月經體驗機》以MV影像風格探討女性生理與科學禁忌。 When the Japanese karaoke culture was introduced into Taiwan in the 80s, karaoke music video business owners began making music videos according to the lyrics of the songs. Around the same time, Taiwan’s first music video, Liu Wen-Cheng’s “Eagle,” was broadcasted. With the glamorous charisma of idol singers, music videos gradually became an important medium in promoting pop music. In 1989, the first KTV store in Taiwan opened on Linsen North Road, which combined the most popular business model of personal MTV boxes and the karaoke culture, and became a major force in the pop music culture. Slowly, the successful business model of Taiwanese KTV spread to Japan whereas karaoke became a less popular leisure activity found in households, restaurants and the countryside for people to briefly escape the pressure in everyday life. Who’s singin’? features the works by four artists. Instead of focusing on the glamorous, eye-catching commercial style of common music videos and the formulated style of karaoke music videos, the exhibition explores the behavior of singing and the meaning of video creations. Yu Cheng-Ta’s A Practice of Singing: Japanese Songs discusses the loss of meaning of the Japanese culture after it is transplanted in Taiwan where only its sonic signs have been retained. Ye Mimi’s Hail the Bodhisattva of Collected Junk presents the spirit of common people through simple and humorous image and the performance of amateur actors. Chen Han-Yu’s The Sungai Duri Karaoke Project records the life of the artist’s friend, A-Chin, and that of her families and relatives in Indonesia, employing video and singing to connect the drifting lives. Menstruation Machine by Sputniko! adopts the style of music videos to discuss the female body and scientific taboos.