Taipei Dangdai, 2020
Video/Film: I Wish You Could Swim, Like The Dophins Can Swim.
Kenneth Tam , Sump, 7’37’’, 2015
Very Temple, Taipei, 2020 This video and film screening program can be seen during Taipei Dang Dai at the VT ARTSalon, organized and presented in cooperation with Los Angeles-based curator Zoe ZHANG Bing. The program will be screen in its entirety each night for three nights, including representative or new works from 16 brilliant young artists from around the world: Los Angeles, New York, Vietnam, Mainland China, and Taiwan. Video recordings of classic performance artworks, still photos assembled into motion pictures, as well as the latest in online selfie videos interlaced with film language, the diverse expressive methods in these artworks delineates the sweep of today’s video art, not only with boundless energy, but also creating a space for developing a multiplicity of concepts. Participating artists have exhibited works previously at international art platforms including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), New Museum (New York), Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and Made in LA. You are cordially invited to feast your eyes on these fascinating works.
participating artists
Amalia Ulman, Jennifer Moon, Kenneth Tam, Kuangyu Tsui, Li Liao, Li Ming, Lin Ke, Linh Phuong Nguyen. Neha Choksi, Liu Yu, Ma Qiu-Sha, Lei Lei, Ruong Minh Quy , Wang Shao-Gang,Yao Qing-Mei, Chu Chun-Teng
Taipei Dangdai, 2020
Video/Film: I Wish You Could Swim, Like The Dophins Can Swim.
Kenneth Tam , Sump, 7’37’’, 2015
Very Temple, Taipei, 2020 This video and film screening program can be seen during Taipei Dang Dai at the VT ARTSalon, organized and presented in cooperation with Los Angeles-based curator Zoe ZHANG Bing. The program will be screen in its entirety each night for three nights, including representative or new works from 16 brilliant young artists from around the world: Los Angeles, New York, Vietnam, Mainland China, and Taiwan. Video recordings of classic performance artworks, still photos assembled into motion pictures, as well as the latest in online selfie videos interlaced with film language, the diverse expressive methods in these artworks delineates the sweep of today’s video art, not only with boundless energy, but also creating a space for developing a multiplicity of concepts. Participating artists have exhibited works previously at international art platforms including the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), New Museum (New York), Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and Made in LA. You are cordially invited to feast your eyes on these fascinating works.
participating artists
Amalia Ulman, Jennifer Moon, Kenneth Tam, Kuangyu Tsui, Li Liao, Li Ming, Lin Ke, Linh Phuong Nguyen. Neha Choksi, Liu Yu, Ma Qiu-Sha, Lei Lei, Ruong Minh Quy , Wang Shao-Gang,Yao Qing-Mei, Chu Chun-Teng
Photoshanghai, 2016
Light from a Crack, Special photo exhibition at Media Section.
Why are people obsessed with pressing the camera shutter? Images, light, characters, objects and composition, as well as indescribable feelings, make a photo, is it for the unforgettable moment in the future, or is the faint light at this moment activating some codes stored in the deep memory ? This may be the charm of photography, which makes artists and viewers intoxicated in the time and space of images.ARTCO China Magazine, in collaboration with curator Zoe ZHANG Bing, invited three contemporary artists to present their new photo works.
Participating artists
Dong Wensheng, Jiang Zhi, Leibenben
West Bund Art & Design, 2015
The Longest Yard, Institution Project Section
Li Jingxiong: The Longest Yard, snakeskin football, video, Institution Project Section, 2015
Participating artist
Li Jingxiong
The Longest Yard is an installation consisting of a video and a group of “American footballs ”.The video, which feels like a commercial, features recurring clips of football games and bodies of people of different ages and genders. The artist with his signature sense of humor makes clear his attitudes toward the mainstream opinions on politics, race and gender issues under the context of commodity economy, which in the meantime forms a response to his earlier works and further expands and deepens the discussion concerning the art system, art history and the power structure. Over twenty specially-made footballs are put on display. The installation focuses on a half-time break of the game of power, and the signifier of competition is highlighted and presented in the form of “object”, echoing the recurring images of football in the video. A mixed sense of light satire and romanticism could be perceived from within.
ART 021, 2015
What I Saw With Your Eyes, Special Video Project, 2015
The exhibition takes the simultaneously decadent and progressive megapolis of Shanghai as its main backdrop, exploring the love-hate relationship between technology and artistic aesthetics in the field of video art. Featuring the works of 12 Chinese artists, spanning two decades of production, the exhibition reveals Shanghai through their eyes through the techniques of performance art recordings, mirror image generation and 3D animation.
Cities are loci accommodating both social production and economic development. In today’s Shanghai, history, culture and philosophy are all subject to consumption by the market and fashion trends. In this sense, Shanghai is not that different from the Los Angeles of the film. Over-reliance on technology and the craze for luxury leads to technology and materialism’s dominance over their supposed human masters. What we see today in this moment is not necessarily “true”—yet the images produced under the twin auspices of technology and art might indeed conceal the bounds of reality.
Cao Fei, Rabid Dogs, Single channel video, sound, 08’00’’, 2002
Participating artists
Cao Fei, Hu Jieming, Li Ming, Liang Yue, Miao Xiaochuan, Qiu Anxiong, Song Tao, Song Dong, Wu Junyong, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Yang Fudong.
Photoshanghai, 2016
Light from a Crack, Special exhibition at Media Section.
Why are people obsessed with pressing the camera shutter? Images, light, characters, objects and composition, as well as indescribable feelings, make a photo, is it for the unforgettable moment in the future, or is the faint light at this moment activating some codes stored in the deep memory ? This may be the charm of photography, which makes artists and viewers intoxicated in the time and space of images.ARTCO China Magazine, in collaboration with curator Zoe ZHANG Bing, invited three contemporary artists to present their new photo works.
Participating artists
Dong Wensheng, Jiang Zhi, Leibenben
West Bund Art & Design, 2015
The Longest Yard, Institution Project Section
Li Jingxiong: The Longest Yard, snakeskin football, video, Institution Project Section, 2015
Participating artist
Li Jingxiong
The Longest Yard is an installation consisting of a video and a group of “American footballs ”.The video, which feels like a commercial, features recurring clips of football games and bodies of people of different ages and genders. The artist with his signature sense of humor makes clear his attitudes toward the mainstream opinions on politics, race and gender issues under the context of commodity economy, which in the meantime forms a response to his earlier works and further expands and deepens the discussion concerning the art system, art history and the power structure. Over twenty specially-made footballs are put on display. The installation focuses on a half-time break of the game of power, and the signifier of competition is highlighted and presented in the form of “object”, echoing the recurring images of football in the video. A mixed sense of light satire and romanticism could be perceived from within.
Shanghai ART 021, 2015
What I Saw With Your Eyes, Special Video Project, 2015
The exhibition takes the simultaneously decadent and progressive megapolis of Shanghai as its main backdrop, exploring the love-hate relationship between technology and artistic aesthetics in the field of video art. Featuring the works of 12 Chinese artists, spanning two decades of production, the exhibition reveals Shanghai through their eyes through the techniques of performance art recordings, mirror image generation and 3D animation.
Cities are loci accommodating both social production and economic development. In today’s Shanghai, history, culture and philosophy are all subject to consumption by the market and fashion trends. In this sense, Shanghai is not that different from the Los Angeles of the film. Over-reliance on technology and the craze for luxury leads to technology and materialism’s dominance over their supposed human masters. What we see today in this moment is not necessarily “true”—yet the images produced under the twin auspices of technology and art might indeed conceal the bounds of reality.
Cao Fei, Rabid Dogs, Single channel video, sound, 08’00’’, 2002
Participating artists
Cao Fei, Hu Jieming, Li Ming, Liang Yue, Miao Xiaochuan, Qiu Anxiong, Song Tao, Song Dong, Wu Junyong, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Yang Fudong.