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Dialogues Project II - Secular Myths 對話系列 II - 世俗神話
Ting Chaong-Wen 丁昶文 Ghada Da 加哈達.達 Double Solo Exhibition 雙個展 Dates: June 17 to 26, 2016 展期: 6月17日至6月26日 Opening performance: June 18, 3:30pm 12 dog cycle is a sound art collaboration formed by Alice Hui-Sheng Chang(TW) and Nigel Brown(AUS). They will do an improvisation performance on the opening day at 3:30pm. 開幕演出: 6月18日(六)下午 3:30 由聲音藝術家張惠笙(台灣)與Nigel Brown(澳洲)組成的「12 dog cycle」將於展覽現場進行聲音即興演出。 ( Installation view of Secular Myths, pon ding, 2016 ) The theme of this exhibition “Secular Myths”, explores metaphors and the effects of myths on society. The exhibition asks where secular myths come from; do they originated in the contradiction between personal anxiety, fear, the tragedy of life, wishes and reality? The material and substances that create myths always come from the experience of daily life, however, the material and spiritual are not separated. Every society needs to identify the phenomenon of God and to define the Secular. Adopting this idea, in particular in the field of performance and exhibition, requires us to present the complex roles of the mind through artistic expression, as well as through the relationship between the modern world of technology and the original myths of the symbolic world. Ghada Da’s plan, prepared specifically for Pon Ding, concerns the dialogue between living space and the soul. This contains common human spiritual experience and is beyond language, race, gender, and social, cultural and political boundaries. Hence, she collected and reorganized numerous objects and sounds that had symbolic meanings, and connected narrative spirit and ritualized movements together in order to interpret our complex body and soul. Ting Chaong Wen's installation is based on urban culture. Using materials as his media, he allows these materials and technology to respond to the history of our living space and urban culture. Pon Ding's exhibition space will be treated as a separate field, but will further explore the intrinsic relationship with symbolic and cultural production systems to interogate themes such as the meaning of differences, harmony and struggle. Ghada Da is a Saudi Arabian artist and based between Dubai and London. UAE. Having studied Fine Arts at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, Ghada’s multi-disciplinary fine art practice focuses mainly on performative sculpture and video installations. Her work is a journey of observation and exploration on disconnect, the genderless body, finding home, rebirth, identity and the representation of the sacred body. The main aim of Da’s work is an investigation of the visible landscape presented by the body and the spatial area in which the body exists as well as its invisible counter part; the psyche. This helps her create a dialogue with the body and understand its complexity. Da tends to create images that become psychological portraits of the identity of the human condition by either an intentional mutation or an intersex by design, in order to allow the sculptural body to live outside the gender system. In this regard the concept of space becomes important to her work. Da wishes to challenge the norm of one physical space in which all bodies exist, and also to focus on the other dimension, the higher plain where spirituality and rituals prevail to explain the intricacies of the body and its psyche. Her works are shown internationally including, Satellite (Dubai), Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah), Saatchi Gallery (London), Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai), Mumford Fine Art Gallery (London), Ductac Gallery (Dubai). www.ghadada.com 展覽「世俗神話」探討“神話”於現今社會中的隱喻和影響,展覽問起世俗神話從何而來;那是來自個人的焦慮和疑懼、生活的悲劇、願望與現實之間的種種矛盾嗎?拼湊神話的材料常來自日常生活的經驗,而物質與精神之間其實並沒有隔離,每一個社會都可以分辨出神靈與世俗的現象,透過特定場域的表演與展覽,我們將藉由藝術表現表達心靈、物質、通俗社會三者之間複雜的作用,以及現代的技術世界和原始的神話象徵世界之間具有的對應關係。 加哈達•達特別為朋丁準備的計劃是一場關乎於心靈與生存空間的對話,所有的精神性都包含人類共通的經驗,便是超越語言、種族、性別和社會、文化政治的界限,於是,她將收集、重組諸多象徵性意涵的物質與聲音,並重新連結彼此之中所隱含的精神性敘事和儀式化動作,演繹我們錯綜複雜的身體及其心靈。 丁昶文所帶來的現場裝置是以城市文化的考究為基礎,物質作爲想像表現的介質,藉由材料和現代科技回應城市空間的歷史。朋丁展覽的空間將被視為一個獨立的場域,他進一步探索與延伸物質象徵在文化生產系統之中的內在關係,諸如差異、和諧與鬥爭等意涵。 加哈達•達是一位來自沙烏地阿拉伯的藝術家,主要工作在阿聯酋杜拜及倫敦,當她在倫敦中央聖馬丁藝術與設計學員研習美術的時候,加哈達的多元領域的藝術實踐主要關注在表演雕塑和錄像裝置。她的作品是一段針對斷裂的觀察和探索、無性別身體、探詢原鄉、重生、神聖的身體主體和其代表的旅程。 加哈達的作品主要目的是探索由身體存在以及其不可見的對應部分之中,身體及空間區域所呈現的可見景觀;心靈,這可以幫助她創造與身體的對話,並理解其複雜性。她傾向於創建人在生存條件之中對主體的心理圖像,無論是有意的突變或是被設計的雌雄同體,這是為了讓身體雕塑能存活在性別系統之外。 她的作品在這個空間的概念之下變得重要,加哈達希望去挑戰一個在普遍身體之中存在的物理空間規範,同時也關注其它維度,並以精神和儀式的高原為準,去解釋錯綜複雜的身體及其心靈。 她的作品參與的國際展演有:衛星(杜拜)、沙迦藝術基金會(沙迦)、薩奇畫廊(倫敦)、上海多倫現代美術館(上海)、Mumford畫廊(倫敦)、Ductac畫廊(杜拜)。 |
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