Sunday, August 16, 2009

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.