Between Q & A… Solo Exhibition by Hong-Kai Wang
Date: 7 September – 3 December 2010
Monday through Friday 10am – 7pm
Venue: 1st F, Taishin Tower (No. 118, Sec 4, Ren-ai Rd. , Taipei, Taiwan)
Following the project-oriented collaboration, Take from society / Give back to society with the artist, Yu-Cheng Chou, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture invites sound artist Hong-Kai Wang to collaborate on our second project -oriented exhibition Between Q & A… Extending the gallery space, this project reaches into the alleys surrounding RenAi traffic roundabout and invites those who live and work in the neighborhood to participate in an artistic intervention.
Between Q & A…consists of two parts; Accept Me for What I Am, If You Want Me (Video documentation), and Accept Me for What I Am, If You Want Me – Taipei RenAi Roundabout (Sound installation). Accept Me for What I Am, If You Want Me was commissioned by the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale and realized in Incheon, Korea in 2009. Dislocating a commonplace electoral campaign situation from Taiwan into Incheon, it employs a vehicle outfitted with a horn speaker playing a pre-recorded speech in Korean by a fictional Taiwanese woman candidate posed by the artist. The vehicle drives around the streets aimlessly for two days.
In Accept Me for What I Am, If You Want Me – Taipei RenAi Roundabout, the locality is re-constructed with the shift of artist’s identity and the change of spoken language. With a microphone and an audio recorder, Wang interviews a number of individuals who are engaged in a variety of economic activities with questions asked by the fictional Taiwanese woman candidate in Accept Me for What I Am If You Want Me, in the effort of activating a new social space. The interview goes on for two weeks. Meanwhile, the resulting responses on audio will be edited and updated daily in juxtaposition with the video documentation of Accept Me for What I Am If You Want Me in the gallery room,
In the exhibition Between Q & A…, the artistic interventions become the mediator in exploring dialogues between questions and answers, and between different cultures. Throughout the course of the exhibition, we witness how the project gradually unfolds.
The project-oriented collaboration Between Q & A…between Hong-Kai Wang and Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture not only provides the artist an opportunity to reinvent the original project, but also allows both the organization and the artist to further investigate its possible
implications.
