- Date 2018.11.21- 2019.01.20
- Venue Our Museum, Nine Single Rooms Art Space, Northern Campus
Daily+ — International Biennial of NTUA Our Museum
Daily+ Curatorial Team
Comments on the Finalist
Institutional curator Chang Chun-Yi led novelist Luo Yi-Jun and gave him a minute tour through the uninhabited daily living community permeated with different entangled memories, and created the first artwork as an attempt to introduce into the vacant sites forgotten memories of life in various military dependents’ villages. Another purpose of this attempt is to employ a complex, open and inspirational structure to assist invited artists from Taiwan and abroad to comprehend the collective memories hidden in these spaces. This approach allows the undetected parts of the contemporary life – all the subtle fragments of artificial intelligence, virtual image, internet technology and other surfacing power relations – to intervene and merge with each other, forming mutual interpretations and conversions that create in their cross-referencing network a remarkable, semi-ruinous daily living community that has never been envisioned and is more thought-provoking than each individual artwork—a thinking, dreaming collective outer brain informed with corporeality.
(Commentator: HUANG Hai-Ming)
Artwork Introduction
This exhibition features artists from France, the US, Austria, Luxemburg, Japan and Taiwan. The curator Chang Chun-Yi first invited novelist Luo Yi-Jun to visit Northern Campus and Nine Single Rooms Art Space and write the novel,Wall Climber, by drawing inspiration from the daily living scenes of old household dormitories and the contemporary artworks once exhibited in these spaces. The invited artists then took the novel and exhibition spaces as reference and proposed their projects in the manner of a solitaire card game. The approach allowed the artists to develop their works while being aware of the development of other works, rendering these projects mutually referential and gradually unfolding a multilayered site-text-artwork dialogue, a network of significance and invisible linkage that lay co-constructively the triple-toned foundation of the biennial. Moreover, the exhibition connected arts and cultural organizations in the Greater Taipei Area, and employed means like seminars, workshops and a writer’s residency to continuously introduce changes inDaily+and sustain the energies of artistic creation.
About the Artist
The Daily+ Curation Team includes the team of Yo-Chang Art Museum at National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA) and professional teams from outside the university. Established in 1955, the NTUA is the oldest arts university in Taiwan. In 2004, the university’s old administration building was renovated and turned into Yo-Chang Art Museum, which is dedicated to art collection, research and education while focusing on curating special exhibitions and facilitating inter-museum exchanges. Since 2016, Principal Dr. Chen Chih-Cheng proposed the international, large-scale exhibition, the Greater Taipei Arts Festival, which connects arts and cultural organizations in the Greater Taipei Area and renovates vacant, old household dormitories into exhibition spaces that include both typical art museum space as well as alternative, experimental space.Daily+is the second edition of the Greater Taipei Arts Festival.
Production Team
President /Chief Organizer：Dr. Chih-Cheng CHEN
Curator：Chun-Yi CHANG, Charles CARCOPINO, Yi-Chun LO, Architectural group
Artists
Pierre-Laurent CASSIÈRE （France）, Charles CARCOPINO（France）
Man-Nung CHOU （Taiwan）, Claude CLOSKY （France）
Jeff DESOM （Luxembourg）, Félicie d’ESTIENNE d’ORVES （France）
Dorian GAUDIN （USA）, Youki HIRAKAWA （Japan）
Chih-Sheng LAI （Taiwan）
Emmanuelle LAINÉ & Benjamin VALENZA （France）
Ho-Jang LIU （Taiwan）, Yi-Chin LO（Taiwan）, Bernd OPPL （Austria）
Olivier PASQUET（France）, Julien PRÉVIEUX （France）
Stéphane THIDET （France）, Nicolas TOURTE （France）
Wan-Shuen TSAI （Taiwan）, Island’s time group（Taiwan）
Work Team
Exhibition Coordinator：Jing-Zhong LOU
Art Director：Chunyi-Yi CHANG
Organiser of Forums/Social Media Manager：Yun-Ting CHANG
Marketing and Planning/ Public Relations：Chia-Ru LEE
Interpretive Planner and Editor：Chiamin LIU
Communication/ Translation：Chih-Chung LIN
Graphic Designer：Boyea LAI
Consultant on Internet Technical Resource：Sense Info
Exhibition Staff：Sz-Yu LU
Photographer：Wei-Tsan LIU
Audio Guide Narrator：Martida YEH
Exhibition Executive：Ya-Ting PO
Exhibition Guided Tour Arrangement：Yi-Chen YANG
