inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 - Retina of the Unconscious
Curated by WANG Chun-Chi
Featured artists @ inCube Arts SPACE｜TING Chaong-Wen
October 1 – 24, 2015
Featured artists @ inCube Arts SPACE｜TING Chaong-Wen
October 1 – 24, 2015
TING Chaong-Wen, MURDER: ER LIN QI AN, 2014, sucrose and Environmental Record (66'50"), Size Variable
inCube Arts is delighted to announce our second edition of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 in October, 2015. Organized by CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne and curated by WANG Chun-Chi, Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI and Carol Yinghua LU, the festival aims to continuing its mission to exhibit time-based art with perspectives from Asia. Three exhibition venues bring the Asia-based artists’ works together to the New York City.
A part of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 exhibition Retina of the Unconscious, curated by WANG Chun-Chi, featuring Taiwanese artist TING Chaong-Wen’s installations, opens on Oct. 2 at inCube Arts SPACE. In Physiology, unconscious is referred to the unacceptable thoughts and feelings that people have in their daily lives. The exhibition focuses the unsettled relation of consciousness and unconscious. The works in Retina of the Unconscious are going to discover the connection of eyes and ears, revealing the truth of being immediately present, here and now.
About MURDER: ER LIN QI AN
The Er lin murder case took place from 1941 to 1944 in Chunghua, Taiwan. The victim, Shi A-Fan, and the offender, Lu Chung were Taiwanese soldiers recruited by the Japanese government. Lu coveted his sworn brother Shi’s wealth and murdered for money. Shi’s body was found buried in a field of sugarcanes. All evidence pointed towards Lu’s assault but Lu would not admit to the crime. The investigators had to stage a scenario in which Shi’s unrested ghost came back to haunt the guilty for Lu to finally admit to the murder. Later on, the Er lin incident was adapted to a Taiwanese Opera piece titled The Tale of Er lin. My work Murder: Er lin qi an is about the archaeology of sound. A vinyl record of The Tale of Er lin is brought back to the sugarcane field and played there. The story-filled melody mixes with the surrounding sound to create layers of clashes between different audio fields. A fracture through which multiple sets of time and space could be observed thus forms: an encounter between the ghost of Japanese Occupation Period and the ghost of quantum entanglement. The sound of work created in collaboration with sound artist Yannick Dauby.
inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 is the one and the only art festival that dedicate to Asian time-based art in North America, gathers together a group of time-based art work, including videos, short film, kinetic installations and real-time sound art performances, featuring 27 artists from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, United States, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines. These artists, with varying cultural and social backgrounds, reflect on their life experiences in relation to the world-wide social issues associated with a global culture, and how this affects the dynamics of the rising East Asian cities as a whole.
About TING Chaong-Wen
TING Chaong-Wen lives and works in Taichung City, Taiwan. Born in 1979 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ting is an installation artist and a visual designer. Excelling in spatial installations of mixed media such as images and ready-mades, the artist has shifted his focus to the exploration of the plastic potential of art with archives. His recent solo shows include Shiro and Oni Ko, at Shiro Oni Studio (Gunma, Japan, 2014) and DAY BY DAY, at the Freemantle Arts Centre (Freemantle, Australia, 2014). Also in 2014 he was featured in the group shows Image / Sound: Concept and Position, at LE CENTQUATRE 104 in Paris, and Flesh Exploration, at TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon in Chai Yi City, Taiwan. His artist-in-residence projects include Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2010), organized by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, as well as S-AIR Artist-In- Residence Programme / Sapporo2TM Project (Sapporo, Japan, 2013); for the latter, he studied History of Hybrid Culture Movements for an art project.
Website: http://www.incube-arts.org/2015.html
For more information, please contact with CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne ([email protected]) and Shihyu HSU ([email protected])
inCube Arts is delighted to announce our second edition of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 in October, 2015. Organized by CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne and curated by WANG Chun-Chi, Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI and Carol Yinghua LU, the festival aims to continuing its mission to exhibit time-based art with perspectives from Asia. Three exhibition venues bring the Asia-based artists’ works together to the New York City.
A part of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 exhibition Retina of the Unconscious, curated by WANG Chun-Chi, featuring Taiwanese artist TING Chaong-Wen’s installations, opens on Oct. 2 at inCube Arts SPACE. In Physiology, unconscious is referred to the unacceptable thoughts and feelings that people have in their daily lives. The exhibition focuses the unsettled relation of consciousness and unconscious. The works in Retina of the Unconscious are going to discover the connection of eyes and ears, revealing the truth of being immediately present, here and now.
About MURDER: ER LIN QI AN
The Er lin murder case took place from 1941 to 1944 in Chunghua, Taiwan. The victim, Shi A-Fan, and the offender, Lu Chung were Taiwanese soldiers recruited by the Japanese government. Lu coveted his sworn brother Shi’s wealth and murdered for money. Shi’s body was found buried in a field of sugarcanes. All evidence pointed towards Lu’s assault but Lu would not admit to the crime. The investigators had to stage a scenario in which Shi’s unrested ghost came back to haunt the guilty for Lu to finally admit to the murder. Later on, the Er lin incident was adapted to a Taiwanese Opera piece titled The Tale of Er lin. My work Murder: Er lin qi an is about the archaeology of sound. A vinyl record of The Tale of Er lin is brought back to the sugarcane field and played there. The story-filled melody mixes with the surrounding sound to create layers of clashes between different audio fields. A fracture through which multiple sets of time and space could be observed thus forms: an encounter between the ghost of Japanese Occupation Period and the ghost of quantum entanglement. The sound of work created in collaboration with sound artist Yannick Dauby.
inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 is the one and the only art festival that dedicate to Asian time-based art in North America, gathers together a group of time-based art work, including videos, short film, kinetic installations and real-time sound art performances, featuring 27 artists from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, United States, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines. These artists, with varying cultural and social backgrounds, reflect on their life experiences in relation to the world-wide social issues associated with a global culture, and how this affects the dynamics of the rising East Asian cities as a whole.
About TING Chaong-Wen
TING Chaong-Wen lives and works in Taichung City, Taiwan. Born in 1979 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ting is an installation artist and a visual designer. Excelling in spatial installations of mixed media such as images and ready-mades, the artist has shifted his focus to the exploration of the plastic potential of art with archives. His recent solo shows include Shiro and Oni Ko, at Shiro Oni Studio (Gunma, Japan, 2014) and DAY BY DAY, at the Freemantle Arts Centre (Freemantle, Australia, 2014). Also in 2014 he was featured in the group shows Image / Sound: Concept and Position, at LE CENTQUATRE 104 in Paris, and Flesh Exploration, at TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon in Chai Yi City, Taiwan. His artist-in-residence projects include Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2010), organized by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, as well as S-AIR Artist-In- Residence Programme / Sapporo2TM Project (Sapporo, Japan, 2013); for the latter, he studied History of Hybrid Culture Movements for an art project.
Website: http://www.incube-arts.org/2015.html
For more information, please contact with CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne ([email protected]) and Shihyu HSU ([email protected])