2019.12.21-22 OPEN CALL Future Tao: Workout #donotsayaction
公開徵集《未來道》: Workout #donotsayaction

未來道: Workout #donotsayaction

時間:2019.12.21-22,2-6pm

地點:台北當代藝術中心

暫停“行動”的呼籲意味著暫停對未來的預期。相機無法發出指令,綠色信號與紅色混合在一起,未打散的捲軸從如時鐘般準時的幀幅中釋放的風景一樣散佈開來,從未知中冉冉閃現的潛能就像像霓虹燈照亮的夜市水果攤上的水霧一樣升起。我們如何理解這種情況,當檔案從座位上站起來,伸出膝蓋,在一個戲劇化的轉身後,向自己彎曲,然後開始摺紙?實際上,它一直這樣做,其引擎發出可怕的噪音,干擾其投射內容的體驗。我們如何整體性地閱讀這種情況?在尋找診斷工具的同時抵制語言的簡化性?試著用棍棒和石頭模擬道,然後將其釋放回自然的匿名狀態?您和我,作為旁觀者,作為參與者,作為棲居在同一空間的微型宇宙,如何在稀有煉金通道連結的水平面上相互連結,從而挑戰我們的正常認知光譜?讓擴展的感官作為新型態的集結?作為新模式的溝通?成為不斷爭取即將來臨的自由​​的新形式?

本工作坊公開招募6位參與者:加入我們,參加為期兩天的實驗,以閱讀,直觀,作曲,聆聽,為“動作”的新基礎設置舞台。在這兩天中,我們將使用新的武術形式,另類的診斷與處方方法,植物學以及電影資料和劇本。邀請參與者分享他們對各種對表演性在各種參與方式中的問題,想法和探索。

藝術計劃lololol的長期項目「未來道」2017年於台北當代藝術中心啟動,陸續以實驗性的藝術實踐去探問「道」和古今技術的關係和當代想像。此項目最初靈感來自於台灣的公園武術文化,藉每日的太極晨練、社區民眾交流,在台北的公園中觀察古今科技技術共生,傳統道家的養生方法和當代科技生活互相融合。我們開始思考,數位科技時代的養生方式以及都市公共空間中的各種流動。 「未來道」計劃發展至今,持續以多變的形式階段性發表,包括合作表演、工作坊、漫遊行走、研究與開發、網站作為集體書寫秘笈,參與項目包括《漫遊者藝術節》(2019),世界文化宮,柏林;(2019),《哺挫》,關渡美術館,台北;《雙影 x Future Tao》,貝里克電影與媒體藝術節,英國;曼谷雙年展 (2018);《未來道練功房》(2018),覓計畫,台北;《未來道人》(2017),台北市立美術館,台北。本工作坊為《感官大稻埕》計畫的第三單元,歡迎寫信至office@tcac.tw 報名。

 

 lololol 

「lololol」是循環的笑聲,0與1構成無盡陰陽變化,同時演示電腦語言的基礎脈動。lololol時而喜出望外、暗自竊喜、或喜怒不形於色。lololol 悠遊於虛實之間的地平線上,不受限於制定的文化邏輯或角色扮演,時而發出的滄海一聲笑。

*《感官大稻埕》獲台北市文化局補助。

工作坊藝術家

張欣

張欣的聲音像是頗開的生命體,同時間暴力且脆弱,裸露地展現內部運動中情緒、力量和道德之間的複雜關係。受斯賓諾莎和道家哲學所影響,將身體視為一個持續被情感彈奏的樂器。在進行中的計畫以聲音的角度去理解亞洲醫學系統的身體詮釋。張欣經常受邀出演個人或合作項目,於中國、泰國、韓國、英國、台灣等地進行駐地創作和研究項目。張欣是藝術計畫lololol.net的共同創辦人,目前協力進行的Future Tao項目關心道思想所發展的身心技術之當代面貌。

林亭君

熱衷於研究太極哲學、武術拳法、和人類與機械的認知程序和進程。發展中的身體行為作品試圖開啟人與人之間的質量與能量轉換。2017年起持續進行的藝術項目《3C形意拳》於台北當代藝術中心首度呈現,這套新內家拳結合武術動作模仿3C產品的各種特長和肢體型態,有助於科技生活中的身心調和。此項目至今陸續於台灣、泰國、英國、中國等地區進行集體開發、發表及演出。林亭君於2013年共同創辦 lololol 計畫,將藝術家和社區群體進行藝術連結,此計畫2018年發起Future Tao項目著重於探問道家思想的角度重新思考古今身心技術的關係。

 

喬治.克拉克

喬治.克拉克 (George Clark)是一名藝術家、策展人與作家,作品散見於世界各地影展與博物館。關注影像的歷史和相關文化、技術、社會政治條件。持續發展的多單元項目「雙影」於2018台北金寶山墓園首映。其他作品包括劇情片《遙遠的回響》(A Distant Echo,2016)、短片《雲海》(Sea of Clouds,2016)與進行中的計畫《Eyemo攝影機膠卷》(Eyemo Rolls,2011-2018),由目前已超過兩百件,並陸續增加中的35毫米影片組成。近期參與的展覽有英國焦點藝廊的《逃出且推!》(Get Out and Push!,Focal Point Gallery,2018)、印尼賈蒂旺宜藝術工廠和韓國陽首美術館的《活檔案》(Living Archive,Jatiwangi Art Factory, 2017 ; Yunseul Museum,2018)與蕭壠文化園區的《種植者的藝術》(A Planter’s Art,Soulangh Cultural Park,2016)。克拉克是西爪哇西約克郡合作運動的共同創辦人,促進加帝旺宜藝術工廠和相關社區的交流與合作。

 

陳義添

安平得記中藥行老闆,是台灣印心測字傳人及台南地方文史工作者。 喜研道家中醫“陰陽五行”、萬物相生相尅之道。

 

利安.摩根 

1982 年出生於加拿大聖約翰市的視覺藝術家與電影攝影師,利安以帶有介入與斷裂感的手法創作,作品往往具有干涉主義意味,並以光為主要媒介。 2002 年他於清邁大學開始接觸政治學、人類學與都市發展研究,並輾轉進入藝術領域。其後加入 Images Asia 行動主義紀錄片團隊,並定居於曼谷。利安的作品廣泛展於亞洲、歐洲、澳洲與北美,作品為清邁當代藝術館與多位私人藏家收藏。他同時為曼谷雙年展發起者之一。

 

Future Tao: Workout #donotsayaction

Time: Dec 21-22   2-6pm

Venue: Taipei Contemporary Art Center

To suspend the call for “Action” means to pause the anticipation of Futures. The camera does not command, green signals mixed with red, an unraveled reel spreads out like landscape released from the clocking of frames, and potentials rise from the unknown like heavy mist from a neon-lit night market fruit stand. How do we understand this situation in which the archive gets up from its seat, stretches its knees, and in a dramatic turn, bends towards itself and starts folding origami? As a matter of fact, it has always done so, with its engine making terrible noise that disrupts the experience of its projected contents. How do we read this situation in totality? In search of tools for diagnosis while resisting the reductive gravity of language? Tying the animated Tao with sticks and stones, then releasing it back to natural state of anonymity? How do you and I, as spectators, as engagers, as micro-universes inhabiting the same space relate on a level of rare alchemic channels of connection that challenge our normal cognitive spectrum? What about expanded senses as a means to new modes of assembly? Of communication? Of a continual striving for the freedom to become? 

Open call for 6 participants: join us in two days of experimentations in reading, intuiting, composing, listening, setting stage for a new basis for “Action.” In these two days, we will work with new martial art forms, alternative diagnostic and prescriptive methods, botanical studies and cinematic material and scripts. Participants are also invited to share their questions, ideas and explorations of performativity for any form of engagement. 

Art unit lololol’s long term project “Future Tao” is an ongoing development of Taoist-informed practices for mind and body cultivation. Inspired by Taiwanese park culture, we explore a fluid field of new and old cosmologies, their corresponding technologies, and the ontology of public spaces in  contemporary times. Since its inception in 2017, the project has taken on many forms, including collaborative performances, workshops, guided walks, research and development sessions, and a website as online scripture, including “Future Tao: City Park” (2019) at Flaneur Festival, HKW, Berlin; “Future Tao” (2019) at Kuandu Museum fo Fine Arts, Taipei; “Double Ghosts x lololol” at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK; “Future Tao: Online Scripture” (2018) at Bangkok Biennial, “Future Tao” (2017) at Taipei Fine Art Museum. Future Tao: Workout #donotsayaction is the third part of Sensuous Tua-Tiu-Tiann.

Presented by lololol

lololol is a boundless laughter, an endless extension of lol (laugh out loud), an acronym that appears to be constructed by the building blocks of I-Ching and/or computer code. lololol is a hearty release amidst interchanging states of existing and non-existing, emptiness and substance, changing conditions of the natural, without resistance or submission to any singular logic or assumption, to respond to the world with an evolving vibration that spreads across the seas.

Artists:

Sheryl Cheung

Sheryl Cheung experiments with the idea of the body as an instrument that is continually played by affects. Like an open, metabolic body, her sound palette is vulnerable and harsh at the same time. Sheryl works between experimental music, abstract scoring and writing to explore a materialist understanding of power, emotion and moral order. Her recent research focuses on sound and medicine through the perspective of Chinese ontology. Sheryl has held supported residencies, workshops and research projects in China, UK, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan. Her work, performances and collaborative projects have been shown at Flaneur Festival 2019, Bangkok Biennial 2018, Taipei Biennial 2018, Asian Meeting Festival, Somerset House studios, Osmosis Festival and Chronus Art Center, among others. Sheryl is a co-founder of lololol.net, an art project that is currently exploring Taoist-informed mind and body technologies. She currently lives and works in Taipei, where she is an independent artist and writer. 

Xia Lin

Xia Lin employs multimedia, video, text and performance for an artistic practice that concerns Taichi philosophy, martial arts, and cognitive processes of humans and machines. Xia Lin’s ongoing project ’3C Xing Yi Quan’ is a open source new style of martial arts that imitates the body language and characteristics of 3C products (3C is Computer, Communication, Consumer Electronics). Xin Yi Quan is a form of internal martial arts and is based on capturing the essence of animal behavioral ecology. Through informed movements, the exercise fosters deeper understanding of familiar technological gadgets that are an intimate part of our daily lives. The highest ‘Xing Yi’ is ‘to be’, Learn from these products by imitation, experience, and cohabitation, in order to find a sense of symbiosis and enjoyment with our new technological nature. Xia is co-founder of lololol.net, a Taipei-based art collective founded in 2013. 

George Clark

Bridging curatorial and artistic practice, George Clark’s work explores the history of images and how they are governed by culture, technology and social political conditions. His work has been shown at festivals and museums internationally. His multi-part project Double Ghosts held its premiere at Chin Pao San cemetery in Taiwan as part of his project for the 2018 Taiwan Biennial. His feature film A Distant Echo premiered in the official selection at the 20th Jihlava IDFF as part of the Opus Bonum competition. His collaborative project Living Archive (Jatiwangi Art Factory, Sept 2017; UK/ID Festival Jakarta, Oct 2017, Yunseul Museum, South Korea, March 2018) was made with Jatiwangi Art Factory and over 30 community curators. His short film Sea of Clouds /  雲海 (2016) made in Taiwan is structured around an interview with the artist Chen Chieh-jen and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival 2016. George is co-founder of the West Java West Yorkshire Cooperative Movement, a collaborative platform for exchange and collaboration between communities with the Jatiwangi Art Factory and Pavilion.

Chen Yi-tian

Chen Yi-Tian is the owner of Teh-Chi Chinese Medicine Store in Anping, Tainan. He practices Yinxin Divination, a unique method of reading and communication that utilizes prescriptive poetry and intuitive diagnostics. Chen is also a cultural worker dedicated to the study of local history and culture of Tainan. 

Liam Morgan

Liam Morgan is a Canadian visual artist, film-maker and cinematographer whose practice involves interference, disruption and situational response. He is concerned with materiality, space and vernacular meaning. His work is often interventionist in nature. He keeps one foot in the world of film-production and the other in visual art; the two practices feed into each other. His expertise as a professional gaffer in the film industry informs his understanding of light and his close attentiveness to the political and the everyday influence his use of the medium. Liam’s work is shown in public and private galleries, festivals and museums in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America and is included in the permanent collection of the Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum as well as various private collections. His films have been shown in festivals around the world. He is a co-founder of the Bangkok Biennial. He is based between Bangkok and Taipei.