12/18 (Fri): Screenings + Party @ New Art Space

We'll be doing screenings of Europe-based indie Directors James Hong, Chen Yin-ju and Simon Chang for the opening of the group exhibition "Mobile Man" at NTUE's new Wolong St. art space. There's a party after the screenings, we'll provide some white russians, and it's FREEE!!!

我們要告訴大家一個很棒的事情，我們準備參加台北教育大學的一個全新的藝術空間的開幕派對，當晚遊牧影展有找到三位 （！！！）通常住歐洲也剛好在台北的台灣/華人導演能親自來與大家交流，同時也有20幾藝術家的群展開幕，除了電影與藝術品之外，還有一點啤酒，film趴又來嘍!!!

時間 / Time: 12/18 (五/Fri) 18:30-22:00
地點 / Place:
台北市大安區和平東路二段136巷24、29號
Heping E. Rd, Sec. 2, Lane 136, No. 24 & 29
票 / ticket: 免費 / FREE
Exhibition / 展覽網站: http://blog.roodo.com/mobileman

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18:30: 開場

19:00: 放映
PRAHA EROTICA (布拉格的性慾）
張雍/14分鐘/捷克/2009/語言：捷克/英/義大利/字幕：英/中
＊＊放映後導演問答

長度14分鐘的紀錄片，是張雍在近兩年在布拉格所進行的拍攝計畫，目前還在持續紀錄中，紀錄捷克 A 片工業不為人知的一面，用影像的蒙太奇，寫實的紀錄手法，加上訪談，對這個神秘的行業提問。《Praha Erotica》獲選於本屆Transmediale - Festival for art and digital culture Berlin 藝術節中以台灣影像工作者的身份代表捷克參展放映。這部影片同時也將收藏於歐盟近年開始計畫的自1989年起至2009年的東歐錄像資料庫的一部份，是歐盟近年所規劃的重點影像建檔計畫。繼續閱讀

19:40
導演焦點：洪子健 與 陳瀅如
＊＊放映後導演問答
陳瀅如與洪子健是一對跨領域的藝術創作團隊。

他們的實驗電影與紀錄片在世界各地展出，包含巴黎的龐畢度中心 （Centre Pompidou) 、西班牙的蘇菲亞王妃藝術中心 （Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía‏) 、舊金山國際影展 (SIFF)，鹿特丹國際影展，以及阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節等。從舊金山到柏林到台北，這對合伙導演花了十年多諷刺探討世界各地的歷史，作品與一般嚴肅或形式化的實驗片完全不同，雖然主題極為沈重，包含歷史的真實性或理論性的問題，但他們的影片終究是透過具體的故事與情況而扣人心弦，有時也引人發笑。

本次挑選的六支短片題材，包含希特勒死亡紀念日、二次大戰日本在中國使用生化武器的後續，以及西方白人優惠的性資本（sexual capital) 等主題。

繼續閱讀

放映之後: party time

----------------EVENT SCHEDULE----------------------



18:30 begin

19:00
PRAHA EROTICA
Simon Chang/ 14min/ Czech/ 2009
language: Eng/Czech/Italian__subtitles: Eng/Ch
**screening followed by director Q&A

This Praha Erotica documentary series is not only a behind-the-scenes story of the porn industry in Prague, Czech Republic. With this image montage, I try to question the human side of this trade. After all, for those actors and actress going to the set and having sex with someone they hardly know as a daily/weekly job is certainly far beyond the imagination of most of us. This human side of this business intrigues me, but I’m not trying to make any conclusions here. Instead, I focus on what’s happening on what’s behind the cameras. It seems to be a flow mixing the most primitive human desires and also the most mysterious weaknesses of mankind. – Simon Chang, director CONTINUE READING

19:40
DIRECTORS IN FOCUS: CHEN YIN-JU and JAMES T. HONG
Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong are an interdisciplinary art team, producing installations, performances, and film and video works. They have exhibited in the Pompidou Center in Paris and Riena Sofia Museum in Madrid and shown films in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam. They are best known for experimental documentaries portray some of histories deepest ironies in a style that is highly watchable and often funny, despite the grave overtones of their larger message. The six films selected for this program range across the anniversary of Hitler’s death, Japanese biological warfare in WWII, the sexual capital of the white man and other fun topics. CONTINUE READING

Following the films, there will be a reception.


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PRAHA EROTICA (布拉格的性慾）

19:00
張雍/14分鐘/捷克/2009/語言：捷克/英/義大利/字幕：英/中
＊＊放映後導演問答

長度14分鐘的紀錄片，是張雍在近兩年在布拉格所進行的拍攝計畫，目前還在持續紀錄中，紀錄捷克 A 片工業不為人知的一面，用影像的蒙太奇，寫實的紀錄手法，加上訪談，對這個神秘的行業提問。《Praha Erotica》獲選於本屆Transmediale - Festival for art and digital culture Berlin 藝術節中以台灣影像工作者的身份代表捷克參展放映。這部影片同時也將收藏於歐盟近年開始計畫的自1989年起至2009年的東歐錄像資料庫的一部份，是歐盟近年所規劃的重點影像建檔計畫。

張雍(Simon Chang)：攝影師，短片工作者，作家，兼具多重身份的張雍旅居捷克布拉格至今已六年餘，曾就讀於FAMU(布拉格影視學院)攝影系碩士班。其文章與攝影作品散見於捷克《Prague Post》、A2 Weekly、台灣《聯合報副刊》、《Luxe Traveler旅人誌》、長榮航空《Verve》、台北與香港的《東西名人雜誌》以及大陸《青年視覺雜誌》等報章雜誌。 張雍專注於台灣少見的黑白紀實攝影領域，拍攝主題多元且充滿了人道關懷的生命力。不同系列的紀實攝影作品亦曾於捷克，斯洛伐克，德國展出，短片作品也曾在斯洛凡尼亞，德國，法國及荷蘭的短片影展中放映。網址：www.simon.chinito.com

PRAHA EROTICA

7:00pm
Simon Chang/ 14min/ Czech/ 2009
language: Eng/Czech/Italian __subtitles: Eng/Ch
**screening followed by director Q&A

This Praha Erotica documentary series is not only a behind-the-scenes story of the porn industry in Prague, Czech Republic. With this image montage, I try to question the human side of this trade. After all, for those actors and actress going to the set and having sex with someone they hardly know as a daily/weekly job is certainly far beyond the imagination of most of us. This human side of this business intrigues me, but I’m not trying to make any conclusions here. Instead, I focus on what’s happening on what’s behind the cameras. It seems to be a flow mixing the most primitive human desires and also the most mysterious weaknesses of mankind.
– Simon Chang, director (2/11/2009)

This film has been selected for the 2009 Transmediale – Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Berlin and is in the collection of the Archive of Video Art from Eastern Europe. Simon’s short film Evaporation (2008) showed in numerous film festivals in Europe and Urban Nomad 2009.

SIMON CHANG is a 31-year-old Taiwanese photographer, filmmaker and writer living in Prague since 2003. Over the last six years, he has used film and still black-and-white photographs to collect stories from eastern Europe, including the prize winning series “They/Oni,” a documentary about Bohnice mental hospital in Prague. He applies a rigorous documentary style to his subjects, which have also included Czech huntsmen, a traditional Czech circus family, a remote Roman village in Hungry, and most recently a documentary about the Czech Republic porn industry.

Simon was born in Taipei and began acting in TV commercials as a high school student, appearing in ads for Nissan, Mitsubishi, MTV Taiwan and others. He majored in fine arts at Fujen Catholic University, and received local prizes for short films he directed. For more, see: www.simon.chinito.com

導演焦點：洪子健 與 陳瀅如

19:40
＊＊放映後導演問答

陳瀅如與洪子健是一對跨領域的藝術創作團隊。

他們的實驗電影與紀錄片在世界各地展出，包含巴黎的龐畢度中心 （Centre Pompidou) 、西班牙的蘇菲亞王妃藝術中心 （Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía‏) 、舊金山國際影展 (SIFF)，鹿特丹國際影展，以及阿姆斯特丹國際紀錄片電影節等。從舊金山到柏林到台北，這對合伙導演花了十年多諷刺探討世界各地的歷史，作品與一般嚴肅或形式化的實驗片完全不同，雖然主題極為沈重，包含歷史的真實性或理論性的問題，但他們的影片終究是透過具體的故事與情況而扣人心弦，有時也引人發笑。

本次挑選的六支短片題材，包含希特勒死亡紀念日、二次大戰日本在中國使用生化武器的後續，以及西方白人優惠的性資本（sexual capital) 等主題。

----影片----

《資本主義萬萬歲》（2006/5分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健）
西方資本主義歷史的符號象徵。科技的發展過程中，科技應是資本累積與戰爭的服侍者，但在石油世紀與戰爭的當下，科技卻代表了資本主義。此片靈感來自於俄國藝術家馬勒維奇提出的「絕對主義」(Suprematism)與當今的石油戰爭。作品中的影像符號適於任何畫質解析度的螢幕，大至戲院小至手機或iPod螢幕。

《希特勒地堡：遊客、新納粹，或是… 4月30日2009年》
（2009/6分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健）
一九四五年四月三十日，希特勒於柏林的藏身地堡舉槍自盡。本片呈現六十四年後的同一天與同一地點，會有哪些人出沒，什麼事發生？

《恆殤》（2009/23分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健）
本片紀錄在二次大戰期間，研發生化武器的日本731部隊所留下的遺毒，以及被波及的被害者。

《全面動員》 （2005/8分鐘/陳瀅如、洪子健）
遷徙與移民是事實亦是命途。美國白人的逐漸消失有可能終結美國強權，西方世界也許只剩下歐洲與其殖民地。沒有了美國，所謂的西方只剩下歐亞大陸末端的一小角。〈全面動員〉是一部諷刺、誇張的實驗片，利用集體奮鬥的螞蟻作為隱喻。它也許影射美國白人的隱懮，又或許是直接陳述事實，端看觀眾如何詮釋。

《財‧縫》 （2008/8分鐘/陳瀅如）
一位台灣母親日夜辛勞地為貴婦人裁製衣服賺錢，以支付女兒在美就學的昂貴學費。全片以一通討論信用卡開支的母女越洋電話為對白，影像則呈現詳細的縫紉工作過程，企圖表達傳統亞洲父母為了孩子無怨無悔的奉獻。

《台北101：病徵紀實》 （2004/23分鐘/洪子健）
一位亞裔美國人在台灣如同朝聖般的尋根之旅中，看到世界最高的建築–台北101；他意外的發現台灣的文化意識被美國文化明顯而強勢的侵略，並沾污成為全球化、美國化、資本主義化、以及跨越國際的白人強權。

DIRECTORS IN FOCUS: CHEN YIN-JU and JAMES T. HONG

7:40pm
** Director Q&A following the screening

Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong are an interdisciplinary art team, producing installations, performances, and film and video works. They have exhibited in the Pompidou Center in Paris and Riena Sofia Museum in Madrid and shown films in the San Francisco International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and International Documentary Festival, Amsterdam. They are best known for experimental documentaries portray some of histories deepest ironies in a style that is highly watchable and often funny, despite the grave overtones of their larger message. Films selected for this program range across the anniversary of Hitler’s death, Japanese biological warfare in WWII and the sexual capital of the white man.

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Suprematist Kapital (2006/5min/Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A Symbolic History of Kapital. Inspired by Kasimir Malevich's minimalist artworks and the struggles for resources in the age of peak oil, Suprematist Kapital was born of the want to create a visual artwork that could be displayed on many different-sized mediums regardless of resolution, e.g., theater screens, mobile devices, ipod's, etc. Where once technology as progress was an end in itself, it became the handmaiden of capitalist accumulation and war, and is now a form of capital itself in the age of peak oil.

Führerbunker: Touristen, Neo-Nazis, und Andere - 30 April 2009
(2009/6min/ Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A video document of Hitler’s final bunker in Berlin, Germany on the anniversary of his suicide (30 April).

Wounds That Never Heal
(2009/23min/ Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
A short profile of the victims and lasting legacy of Unit 731 -- a World War II, Japanese, biological warfare facility. Following the first bombing of Tokyo by US forces, the Japanese punished entire villages and counties in China where the bombers crash landed by spraying diseases from crop-duster-like airplanes. The effects can still be seen on the bodies of those living in the region today.

Total Mobilization (2005/8min/Chen Yin-ju and James T. Hong)
Migration is fact; immigration is destiny. The disappearance of White America could mean the end of the United States of America, as we have known it. The West could be reduced to Europe and few lightly populated overseas European settler countries. Without America, the West becomes a miniscule and declining part of the world’s population on a small and inconsequential peninsula at the extremity of the Eurasian land mass. TOTAL MOBILIZATION is an evocative, ironic, and bombastic experimental video that ostensibly focuses on a group of struggling ants. The open-minded will see it as a trenchant metaphor of nativist fears; the closed-minded will see it as a document of the truth.

Transactions (2008/8min/Chen Yin-ju)
This video shows one example of how Asian parents devote themselves to their grown children. Here a mother works tirelessly for rich clients so she can send her daughter to study in the USA. The montage illustrates the detailed procedure of dressmaking, and the phone conversation covers credit card expenses, converted from US dollars to Taiwanese yuan.

Taipei 101: A Travelogue of Symptoms (2004/23min/James T. Hong)
In TAIPEI 101: A TRAVELOGUE OF SYMPTOMS an Asian American encounters the semblant operations of Americanization on a pilgrimage to Taiwan. He discovers that Taipei 101 -- currently the world's tallest building -- Taiwan's culture, and his own consciousnesses are indelibly marked by globalization, America, capitalism, and the transnational power of white men.

New Logo Variations

we call this one the "potsmoker's deathwish with cherry blossoms." if people like it, maybe we'll print some t-shirts or stickers.

AGE OF STUPID 《愚蠢時代》

＊＊＊線上報名取票到9月18日晚上12點為止，如果有剩下的坐位，播放當天的下午1點50分就可以給未報名的朋友來坐。

＊＊＊Online Registration for free tix ends Sep. 18 (Fri) at midnight. Extra seats open up 10 minutes before the screening next Tuesday


Radiohead 的 Thom Yorke，聯合國前任秘書長 Kofi Annan 都要參與這場同一天在45個國家的全球首映，電影是 《愚蠢時代》，洛杉磯時報評論這部紀錄片說是戈爾的《絕望真相》再加個性，下個星期二下午在台北免費放映，城市遊牧非常榮幸作為協辦單位，這場之後台灣不 一定有第二次放映，大家趕快上網報名！（點上下面的連接，看網頁的下右）

The Age of Stupid may be the most important film you’ll see this year, and the worldwide premier happens next Tuesday in 45+ countries around the world, including a free screening in Taipei. Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will be among those attending the premier of a film the LA Times has called “An Inconvenient Truth but with a personality.” This may be the first and last public screening in Taipei, and Urban Nomad is very happy to be a part of it. To get tickets, register online at the link below. (The registration form is at bottom right.)

報名 / GET TICKETS: http://sites.google.com/site/ageofstupidtw/

官方網站 / OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.ageofstupid.net/

時間：2009年9月22日下午2點 (1:30入場)

地點：國軍文藝活動中心

主持人：王文華 (作家、若水創辦人)

When : Tue, Sep. 22, 2pm
Where: Armed Forces Cultural Center
Address: 69 Chunghwa Rd., Sec. 1, Taipei 100, Taiwan

• 免費活動，座位有限，請先完成線上報名，當日憑入場券、邀請函入場
• 已向律師公會報名者，當日可憑律師証直接入場
• 媒體朋友可憑記者証入場
• 現場備有茶點，敬請自備環保餐具、水杯

It's free!!
Please complete and submit the online registration form
on the right of the page.
You will be added to the Global Premiere guest list,
there is no need to print anything.
Refreshments will be served after the screening.
Please bring your own re-usable cups and plates.

特別放映《水乳交融》~~ 這個很色的嘍 ^^

大家好，我們遊牧影展突然有個比較特別的機會，這個星期六晚上8點能給大家播放一部由美國藝術家 Lawrence Weiner 拍的22分鐘短片電影《水乳交融》 (Water in Milk Exists)，影片製作人平川典俊會在現場談談影片內容與自己的攝影創作。美國的重要藝術雜誌 Art Forum 如此評論《水乳交融》：「這部非敘述性A片充滿一群20幾歲者彼此操，吮，弄，手淫等行為，全部發生在紐約瑞士當代藝術研究院的Soho區空間與唐人街的攝影棚裡。在影片裡，激起性慾望的色情場面以及關於 "各人對現實的定義” 和 “弦理論” 的冗長而勉強的哲學想法一直交替，就像導演一直在玩一個讓我們感到激動的開關，性慾望的引起又開了又關了。」（閱讀原文）這麼說呢，大家大概已經明白，如果A片、gay片、手淫、口交會冒犯到你，那這場放映會就不是你的菜。影片會有中文字幕 （現在正很趕地做），放映前後也有中文的解釋。

若你沒聽過平川典俊，他來自日本，住在紐約，是一位國際藝術圈子裡有知名度的藝術家，最有 ~~嗯，或許可以說他具有 “名氣” 的攝影系列是由典俊要求很多女生是否可以借用她們的相機來拍她們的裙底風光而創作出來。這次的活動在非常廟藝文空間舉行，為呼應Chi-Wen 畫廊於9月12日舉辦的平川典俊個展 UNFOLD UNIVERSE，展覽於當日下午 3-6點開幕。放映會沒有入場費，但觀眾至少消費一杯飲料。總的來說這是瞭解古怪的平川典俊談論他的藝術，以及他如何遊走在情色邊緣的難得機會。

20:00 入場
20:15 影片與藝術家介紹
20:35 影片放映
21:00 藝術家平川典俊問答
21:30 喝酒

時間: 9月12日（六) 8-10pm
地點: 非常廟藝文空間，伊通街47號B1
入場: 抵消費一杯飲料

主辦：城市遊牧
協辦：Chi-Wen Gallery
贊助：非常廟藝文空間

Water In Milk Exists: 9/12 @ VT Art Salon

Hi everybody. We quite suddenly were presented with the opportunity to show you something rather weird, a 22-minute film by American artist Lawrence Weiner called WATER IN MILK EXISTS. It happens this Saturday at 8pm, and the film's producer Noritoshi Hirakawa will be there to talk about both the film and his own work. Noritoshi is an interesting character, an internationally known art photographer who is famous for taking pictures of women's underwear. The screenign will take place at VT Art Salon, and admission only requires that you buy one drink.

But before you come, we should probably mention that if you are easily offended by porn, gay porn, blow jobs, or abstruse philosophy, this just might not be for you. Here is how one of the world's top art magazines Art Forum reviewed the film: "This nonnarrative porn is full of twenty-somethings fucking, sucking, playing, and masturbating in the Swiss Institute’s SoHo loft and a Chinatown photo studio. Scenes alternate between often-thrilling hardcore porn and contrived and tedious philosophical musings about 'personal definitions of reality' and 'string theory.' Like a switch flicked too soon, stimulation teasingly turns on and off." (Read the entire review.) Also, the film is in English with Chinese subtitles. Discussions and an introduction to the film will be bilingual in English and Chinese.

This screening of Water in Milk Exists will be held in conjunction with Noritoshi's exhibition UNFOLD UNIVERSE at Chi-Wen Gallery, which opens earlier the same day from 3-6pm. This is a rare chance to hear the often outlandish Noritoshi discuss his art and its relation to pornography.

20:00 get your seat
20:15 introduction to film and artist
20:35 screening of "Water in Milk Exists"
21:00 Q&A with Noritoshi (the artist)
21:30 cocktail time

Date: 8-10pm Saturday, September 12
Location: VT Art Salon, B1 #45 Yitong St
Price: 1 drink minimum

Presented by: Urban Nomad
Co-organizer: Chi-Wen Gallery
Support: VT Art Salon

ART TAIPEI 2009 ~~ ICE CREAM PARTY!!!

(for English scroll down)

我們好興奮嘍，因為收到 Art Taipei 2009 (台北國際藝術博覽會) 的邀請，更何況有冰淇淋的 sponsor, 所以我們準備 Ice Cream Party!!!! 給大家吃免費的冰淇淋!!! 因為需要跟博覽會協調，說我們需要多少冰淇淋，麻煩個位要參加的朋加入這個 Facebook活動，為我們方便判斷需要準備多少。至於節目的部份，博覽會的五天，我們其實每天都會播放 video art 的影片, 冰淇淋派對時要播放卜樺的動畫作品，她是一位很棒的大陸藝術家，要跟大家分享她的天分！其他內容如下：

8/28 Friday 17:00-18:00
COSPLAY – 陳明秀與其他導演以探討青年打扮成漫畫人物的短片與實驗片。

8/29 Saturday 17:00-18:00
ICE CREAM PARTY + 卜樺 － 來自網絡的 Flash 動畫次文化年輕創作者。

8/30 Sunday 17:00-18:00
沒問題俠客去衝浪 － 媒體惡搞高手沒問題俠客從未播公開的短片。

8/31 Monday 13:00-17:00
年輕台灣影像創作者 － 來自 2009 年城市遊牧影展的第二螢幕節目，藝術與實驗電影片單。

9/1 Tuesday 13:00-17:00
遊牧影展的祕密收藏 － 或許不可思議，或許不可忘記。

來參加我們其實建議大家早一點到了，藝術博覽會裡有差不多100個畫廊攤位，要展覽許多亞洲地區藝術家的新作，個位來欣賞吧！

藝博會入場費：＄200 ／ 學生 ＄150 (冰淇淋是免費的）
地址：台北世界貿易中心 展覽大樓 ( A + D 區） 台北市信義路五段五號
更多資訊：http://www.art-taipei.com/CHI/event.html

ENGLISH INFO:
We will be showing short films and video art at the art fair Art Taipei 2009, so we decided to have an ICE CREAM PARTY! With sprinkles, chocolate syrup, and maybe some booze.

The Ice Cream Party is Sat, Aug 29, 4:40 - 6pm. Get there early! Also, if you're coming, please join our Facebook event, so we know how much ice cream to prepare. Also, don't forget to check out the art. Around 100 galleries from around Asia will be showing the latest contemporary works from scores of artists. It'll be rad.

Art Fair Admission: NT$200/ $150 students (ice cream is free)
Location: Taipei World Trade Center (Area A&D), Xinyi Rd, Sec. 5
Art Taipei 2009 website: http://www.art-taipei.com/ENG/event.html

COSPLAY

8/28 (五) Friday 17:00-18:00

COSPLAY – 陳明秀與其他導演以探討青年打扮成漫畫人物的短片與實驗片。

Even when we hate cosplay, we LOVE cosplay!! This section includes short films by Mia Chen and two other directors. The cool thing about Mia Chen's shorts is that even though she comes at Cosplay from an academic background, she stays away from analysis and heavy theoretical framework that would kill her subject, and instead focuses on getting into the heads of the kids she meets. What Chen does is show the imaginative process of these teens go as they dress like their cartoon heroes.


【Into Cosplay】同人人
Mia Chen 陳明秀/ 2007/ Taiwan/ 7min/ no dialogue 無對話
【I am That: Cosplay】我擬她
Mia Chen 陳明秀/ 2009/ Taiwan/ 7min/ En/Ch (英/中)
【Spiderman Paratoon】啪啦通
Mia Chen 陳明秀/ 2008/ Taiwan/ 3min/ no dialogue 無對話
【Today's Cosplay】
Loren Von Hogue/ 2007/ Taiwan/ 6min/ En (英)
【On the Japanese Doll Complex】
Katrien Jacobs/ Hong Kong/ 18 mins/ En/Ch (英/中)
What kind of Japanese doll would you like to buy and live with, if you had the opportunity? In this docudrama, the gifted doctor ‘Madame Remedy’ (Nam Kung) highlights Chinese people's search for otherworldly alter ego’s. Madame Remedy points to a wide variety of cases where people seek the innocence and gender-fluidity of dolls, to embellish or alter the greyness of the everyday. She illustrates her case-study by showing snippets of the lives of Kigurumi cosplayers, Adult Video movies, fans of Boy Love animations, and owners of Ball-Jointed Dolls. Males and females alike explore Japanese excess as commodity exchange and identity transformation, falling in love with dolls or doll components in ways that are least expected - Katrien Jacobs.

Bu Hua 卜樺 + ICE CREAM

8/29 (六) Saturday 16:40-18:00
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節目 // Program
野蛮丛生 / Savage Growth / 3'52"
猫 / Cat / 5'30"

病之城 / Sick City / 7'05"
青春有害健康 / Youth Does Harm to Health / 3'18"
未来荒 / Last Phases of the Future / 3'08"
慌慌 / Anxiety / 3'25"
人造仙境 / Manmade Fairyland / 25'

來自網絡的 Flash 動畫次文化年輕創作者，卜樺住北京，曾參與過兩屆城市遊牧影展。因為她的作品太吊了，這也不是說我們喜歡她而已，2008年她參與釜山雙年展與上海雙年展亞洲的兩個大雙年展，最近大陸歌手左小詛咒也請她做一個新MV，受藝術與獨立音樂各種肯定，所以這次很高興能與卜樺合作在 Art Taipei 2009，做這個特別的節目。以下是卜樺的一個簡單訪問，讓大家更了解她的作品：

妳作品裡面的這個少女生是妳嗎？
一般看完我的系列數字繪畫的人都會說：這不就是你嘛。我開始覺得她不像，直到後來給她的表情畫得很“超然”，沒什麼笑容，我突然覺得她有了生命力。

她住在怎麼樣的世界？
基本上就是我每個階段的所謂“精神世界”，野生的，懷舊的，超現實的景象，表現的是現實中的感受和人的心性。

妳為甚麼喜歡用Flash來創作？
說到底想要的東西還是“自由”，這是我關於人生的答案。做“藝術”好像是我能想到的最好的途徑了，而做Flash是我能想到的做“藝術”的最好的途徑之一。到後來一切都是關乎精神層面的。但是獨立並不等於自由，獨立的人很多，自由的人很少。怎麼樣才算自由的人？我的答案也很簡單：做一個無所畏懼的人，那你就是自由的。自由相伴著真正的喜悅。

對現在的年輕人，網絡算不算重要發表的頻道？對妳自己呢？
當然很重要了，改變新一代人類的處世性格。我很討厭出去“兜售”自己，現在不用了。很多人只需要在家做喜歡的事情，剩下的就是別人來找到他/她。

卜樺歷經：
1991-1995中央工藝美術學院繪畫
1996-1998荷蘭阿姆斯特丹藝術學院藝術
2009年重逢之前，不必驚慌——卜樺個展DAC數字藝術中國
2008年人造仙境—卜樺個展上海聖菱畫廊
大世界：中國當代藝術展美國芝加哥文化中心
現在時雙年展美國舊金山中華文化中心
斯洛文尼亞graphic art雙年展斯洛文尼亞
2008上海雙年展上海美術館
2008釜山雙年展韓國釜山美術館
《果凍時代》台北當代藝術館
《果凍時代》2007.5上海美術館中國
《身份與傳播》2007.8韓國Sungsan Art Hall




Bu Hua got her chops in the China's flash animation web sites, a free-trade zone for ideas that's a universe unto itself. Even though we have been showing her work for the last two years, it's not just that we love her stuff. In 2008, she was invited to show works in the Pusan and Shanghai Biennials, and she has lately been comissioned to create a music video for legendary Beijing indie singer Zuoxiao Zuzhou. To help you understand Bu Hua's works a bit more by letting her speak for herself, here is a short interview conducted specially for this exhibition:

Who is the girl in your animations? Is it you?
Lots of people see the figure in my digital drawings and ask, "Isn’t that you?" I’m starting to think she’s not. Lately, the expression I’ve been giving her has been really detached, with no smile. Now, suddenly I feel like she’s taking on a life of her own.

What kind of world does this girl live in?
Basically it's what you might call the different phases of my own psychic world. The scenes are wild, nostalgic and surreal. They express feelings and states of mind from real life.

Why do you like to use Flash to make art?
My take on life is that the thing I'm really after is freedom. Making "art" is the best route for taking me there, and using Flash is one of the best routes to making "art" I've found. In the end, everything is about states of mind. But independence is not the same as freedom. There are many people who are independent, but few who are free. So what does it mean for a person to be free? My answer is simple: To fear nothing is to be free. And the companion of freedom is true happiness.

Is the Internet an important place for young people to express themselves? Is it important for you?
Of course it's really important. For the new generation, it's changed the nature of our place on earth. I really hate to go out and "sell myself," and now I don't have to. A lot of people can just stay home and do the things they like to do, and as for the rest, people will come find them.

Bu Hua: Selected List of Exhbitions:
1991-1995 Central Institute of Arts and Design (Beijing)
1996-1998 Amsterdam School of the Arts
2009
Solo exhibition, DAC (Digital Art of China), Beijing
2008
Solo exhibition, Shanghai Shengling Gallery
Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia
2008 Shanghai Biennial
2008 Pusan Biennial
2007
"Infantization" (group show) MoCA, Taipei
"Infantization" (group show) Shanghai Art Museum

The Yes Men Go Surfing

8/30 (日） Sunday 17:00-18:00

沒問題俠客去衝浪
媒體惡搞高手沒問題俠客從未播公開的短片。他們已經做出來兩部長片，其中最新的準備在台灣上院，預告片在下面的 YouTube，看看吧！

The Yes Men are a duo of media jamming activists, who among other things, have posed as representative of Dow Chemicals in an interview with BBC World, then told the world they would put US$12.1 billion to compensation and cleanup of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, the worst industrial accident in history. The Yes Men have two feature films to date （check the trailer for the new one below). For this segment, they've given us a selection of rare clips and outtakes, some of which have never been seen before. We've made a mashup of these, throwing in a couple of surf/skate videos for flavor.

The Yes Men in Taiwan

今天早上 The Yes Men （沒問題的俠客）在台北前往台北101測驗他們的 "保存球" 以及給一群警衛一些麻煩。接著在台北電影節非常成功的幾次放映，他們的新片 《沒問題俠客修理世界》(The Yes Men Fix the World) 大約秋天時要在台北上院。

以後的放映訊息請查前景公司的網站：www.ffe.com.tw 。一般的 Yes Men 訊息可以看他們官方網站：www.theyesmen.org

The Yes Men were at Taipei 101 this morning testing the Halliburton SurvivaBall and irritating building security. Their new film, The Yes Men Save the World, is playing at the Taipei Film Festival and will probably be released in Taiwan this fall.

For more updates Yes Men capers, check their website: www.theyesmen.org or for Taiwan release info, check Flash Forward Entertainment (in Chinese): www.ffe.com.tw

城市遊牧影展在新竹

我們很高興今年的節目能巡迴到新竹影像博物館。這個老戲院很可能是台灣最漂亮的，看電影的體驗個方面都很棒。節目細節如下：

Hi everyone! Urban Nomad's entire 2009 program will screen in Hsinchu from June 10 to 28. The info is below.

地點 Location：(地圖 / map)
新竹影像博物館 新竹市中正路65號
Hsinchu Image Museum, 65 Zhongzheng Rd
時間 Date： 6/10 - 6/28
門票 Ticket： NT$30

WED（三）	THU（四）	FRI（五）	SAT（六）	SUN（日）
6/10 19:00 短波1	6/11 19:00 你今夜老外了沒	6/12 19:00 短波2 鯨豚 I	6/13 14:00 鯨豚 II 19:00 焦點:第二人生	6/14
6/17 19:00 短波4	6/18 19:00 虛構的那種怪味	6/19 19:00 凝結狀態	6/20	6/21

6/24 19:00 後院摔角

6/25 19:00 洞爺外傳之祝君安好 李家王朝統治下的新加坡

6/26 19:00 音速青春

6/27 10:00 短波3 14:00 愛噪音 台北電擊女孩 寶島少年傻大盜 19:00 《M00G》

6/28 10:00 《小李子》 14:00 《100》 19:00 誰殺了我們的孩子