contact
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project
2009
POST.O
Position: exhibited artist
Topos is the aspect of contemporary art in Taiwan that has been most impacted by growing internationalization and globalization, and our definition of what can be considered topos has become increasingly rigid during the course of its development over the last twenty years. Consequently, topos is either passé, is unable to respond to existing social conditions, or tends too much toward homogeneity when circulating in consumer society. Today, in light of globalization's growing influence on every part of our cultural landscape, topos no longer merely implies a desperate defense of identity or a position on the fringe. Under Zygmunt Bauman's notion of society in liquid times, and Brian Holmes's notion of flexible personality, topos becomes an opportunity for creativity since a locale can be generated through certain operations. The significance of the exhibition title POST.O is that it represents the phase we find ourselves in now; we are no longer groping at regional history as indicated by topography, or defining ourselves through a place situated somewhere in the continuity of the Earth's surface, but on the contrary, inventing locales as they are needed.
curated by OCAC + Huang Chien-Hung
www.posto.com.tw
Since 2009
GLOBALALIEN
Position: Member
A network of artists and theorists. questioning different social issue in our time, such as borderline, language.
In collaboration with Benji De Burca, Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, Youngjoo Cho, Marte Kiessling, Nam-See Kim, Jakob Schaible and Jae-Hyun Yoo
www.globalalien.net
Studio: Gneisenaustr.6b 10961 Kreuzberg Berlin
2006 - 2009
SUMO STUDIO
Position: Co-founder
SUMO STUDIO is a group of associated artists who have in common a particular interest in public space and who have chosen to develop and push forward specific projects together along with their own practice.
They work without any fixed studio. The nature of their interventions depends essentially on the places where they stay on a variable temporary basis (weeks, months). They are looking to redefine the site they are investigating and by doing so to reveal its social dimension and poetic potentiality.
sumostudio@gmail.com
2006 - 2007
LA CALAVERA
Position: Co-founder of La Calavera
A one year Art forum / Art space project in Villeurbanne France.
In collaboration with Sébastien Basdevant, Pierre Bonnouvrier and Sarah Duby (artists)
la.calavera.free.fr
2006 - 2007
SPÉCIAL CHANTIER
Position: Exhibited artist
ENBA-Lyon, Les Subsistance, France
To document visually the successsive transformations of a site in deep mutation. The selected photographs will be part of the archives of the city (Lyon).
*public commission project, exhibition view links:
talk. workshop. seminar
2009
Artist Talk, GLOBALALIEN, TONGUE LADEN, Berlin, Germany
2009
Artist Talk, vis-à-vis, POST.O, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, MOCA, Taiwan
2009
Workshop, Berlin-Barcelona, HANGAR Centre de producció d'Arts Visuals Barcelona, Spain
2008
Symposium, Skoki, Poland with Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Inge Mahn
2005 - 2006
Symposium + Workshop, La construction du réel dans l'art contemporain,
Program of research supported by the Ministry of Culture, France
collaboration with CEHTA, EHESS and ENBAL, under the supervision of Giovanni Careri and Bernhard Rüdiger.
with Luciano Fabro, Pietro Montani, André Gunthert, Ernst Van Alphen, Mieke Bal and Thomas Shütte.
2005 - 2006
Workshop, Memoire en Demeure, Saint-Thelo with Tadashi Kawanata, France
2005
Artist Talk, Open-Art Contemporary Art Center Taipei, Taiwan