Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Jury's Comments for the Jury's Special Award 

Kao Jun-honn’s “Home Project” re-examines and explores the definition of “home” under the context of social and personal ideals.  The artist works as a social architect to solicit the past and present environmental conditions of three families. He interacts with them to create a dialogue which crosses the platforms of anthropology, sociology and arts; and  has remapped a new communal relationship where public domain and private space intersects. This project emphasizes human interaction, embodiment, and performance. The absent and the present are felt in “Home Project” as real and the imagined spaces that mend the spent spirituality of our time. 

Comments on the Finalist

Jun-honn KAO proposes an experimental idea for the art/ artist/ space by approaching the amusing process of the arts.  He carefully re-investigates the social role of the arts, including modes of art activities, and establishes bizarre interfamilial relations which each creatively orchestrate communication, cooperation, and discovery.  The work reflects an attempt by the contemporary artist to use arts to involve another main body, without employing the anxiety or imagination of the public, but rather using a method of open participation to fuse the history and imaginary space of three families.  A sense of distance emerges amid the artistic construction, thus engendering new understandings of self within the existing space while conveying the fundamental oddity of each individual’s familiar living environment.   The aesthetics of “Home Project” reflect an alternate mode of recoiling from the pull of time and the site of transformation, causing an artistic occurrence and subsequently extending the possibility of artistic dialogue.

（By Committee Member Hui-lan CHANG）

Artwork Introduction

Kao Jun-Honn's Home Project re-examines and explores the definition of "home" under the context of social and personal ideals.  The artist works as a social architect to solicit the past and present environmental conditions of three families. He interacts with them to create a dialogue which crosses the platforms of anthropology, sociology and arts; and has remapped a new communal relationship where public domain and private space intersects. This project emphasizes human interaction, embodiment, and performance. The absent and the present are felt in Home Project as real and the imagined spaces that mend the spent spirituality of our time.