GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS 2015
In memory of the American poet, Robert Lee Frost, the show re-explore one of his renowned poems, Mending Wall 1914, to celebrate the anniversary of his birth. The poem questions the existence of the wall between the narrator and the neighbor; it highlights the norms and traditions that people have been keeping up to maintain peace in the rural society. The famous line “good fences make good neighbor� is not from Frost himself, ironically, it is derived from a popular colonial proverb in the mid 17th century. So what is this long-planted idea about? How does it make sense to us nowadays? And to a broader context, what do the world do to maintain peace and harmony? We have gladly chosen 9 artists to showcase their works based on their own intepretation of poem, life and relationship.
Alive 2014 Mixed Media Installation, Performance 15 min ... I have tried to construct an apparatus with which my body extends itself into the room. Using tension springs and movement I can create an interactive space. The tensioned springs show how the surface of the body extends in different lines. There is no intentionality in my movements. I also did not imagine the appearance of the spefific ways t he movments and mechanisms would be combined. But my body produces a continuous dialogue between the apparatus and the room. ... When the muscles of the body remain in a relaxed state and I do not move, I do not notice that my body is connected to the apparatus. Such natural relaxation creates a sense of security and it is possible that even with restrictions on it my body remains in a pleasant state.
Yet, such quiet relaxation and the feeling of safety can also be a fallacy, because in reality the body resides in a safe posture, which can be ended by a movement at any time. But if my body spreads to its limits, then the device generates more than twice the pressure that is usually on my body. Then it becomes more and more difficult to stretch the limbs and to use the power of my muscles, nevertheless I try to maintain the posture untill I reach my limits. ... With all my physical strength I fought against the external pressure, and my body gets muscle pain. The existence of the body enters into consciousness. At the moment of physical collapse, the force of the tension springs diminishes and they swing back. The body is pulled back and forth in constant motion, and through the continuous use of my strength I create the loss of my security, and I return into a real state. ...
Ya Wen Fu | Berlin ... MeisterschĂźler of media arts, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany Diplom in media arts, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany ... Director of tamtamART-Space, Berlin, Germany ...
Alice 2009 Video 16 min ... In front of an indifferent nature, the human drama is happening.
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Muriel Montini | Paris ... Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several movies screened in different international important institutions and festivals. She currently works on different films projects. ...
Treasure Hunting Performance 4’59 min ... To me, artist is a kind of flowing vendor. We pick up the waste, and using it as material to create artwork. From the process of discarding and refusing, it could be transferred into an acceptable artwork. Furthermore, the ‘waste’ exists through the business in museum and gallery. The relationship between collector, artist and gallery is pretty similar to consumer, vendor and market. The difference is that the vendor is prohibited. Therefore, I wondered how the art exists without sponsors. If there were neither gallery nor museum, how will the fine arts survive in market? To the public, what’s the meaning of fine arts? How the artworks are collected in private? ... As the issue gathering, a public trading performance was executed.
Like a waste picker, I picked up some discarded used mold, re-constructing it into watermelon-like works. Riding a second-handed bike to a traditional market, I sold my artworks there. People were surely attracted by the artwork, concerning the reality of the fruit. Interestingly, after I explained the ‘watermelon’ was actually an artwork, the people left readily as they thought it was nothing but a decoration. In order to sell the artwork properly, I managed my lecture. Thus, the fruit became a charm with some magic power. The pattern was according to numerology, and the shape was designed to avoid misfortunes. As a result, it drew people’s attentions successfully, since at the moment the watermelon was more than an artwork. It was more practical than before. Hence, I sold out the artwork after the discussion with the public. As a result, the public did participate in my project a nd collect my work. The art was thus satisfied. ...
Kuan Ying Chen | Taipei ... M.A. Department of Fine Arts National Kaohsiung Normal University Kaohsiung, Taiwan B.A. Department of Visual Arts University of Taipei Taipei , Taiwan ... Selected Awards Taiwan Biennial Kaohsiung Arts Awards Arising Artist Of New Taipei City ...
Site/Nonsite Photography series ... Tereza undertakes a project is surreality, minimality and disorientation. ... “Photography for me is a mirror of the artist’s soul. It expresses the emotions the photographer is hiding inside his/her mind. It is a powerful tool of expression.” The project is titled Site/Nonsite. Her distinctive nonchalant, dreamy gaze encapsulates frames that are borderline abstractive. Familiar shapes lose their meaning and become smithereens of a modified actuality. Tereza uses her camera as a microscope, and by zooming in Limassol’s street life, she successfully disorientates us with her surreality and minimalism. She fancies exploring the unknown within the known, re-constructing reality through her own perception. ...
Tereza Kleovoulou | Cyprus ... Tereza Kleovoulou is a photographer passionate with the streets and people. Photography is her tool of expression. She is exploring places that are unknown to her and that ‘wonder’ can be shown in her photographs. ... The unconscious mind of hers becomes conscious during the development of each project. Photography is a reflection of her whether she intends it or not. She has a deep need to understand the world around her. But things are not always as they seem, and photography ‘records’ feelings that are sometimes hard to ‘read’
Eletronic for Koyaanisqatsi Video 1’41 min ... Film by Godfrey Reggio Original music by Shycacti ... The video took from a film “Koyaanisqatsi” directed by Godfrey Reggio, tributing to him. ... Fences is s static line to divide with each other, and a symbol of order of society which founded on land base. The order in our time is not so obvious like before, it was transformed to all kind of production we have to do everyday, as our labor and our work. How can we get along with the order today is our key subject. ...
Siou Ming Wu | Kaohsiung ... Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University. ... Engaged in the creation of sound and music, including audio-visual, installations, performances, soundtrack, hoping creation toward the society we lived, and making it turned.
Safe! Paper, Mixed Media ... At first the speaker told the neighbor the situation and then made a joke about the wall. But in the end of the poem he merely seeing him bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top. “ good fence make good neighbor”, the neighbor said. I wonder what is the wall, what is the limit? It likes arms and shields, therefore I drew “safe!” between the stone columns. The columns usually are the entrance of museums, libray, temple or main buildings where people are sheltered. ... Chia Yu Chang | Kaohsiung ... Tainan Arts the of University National Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts
Love Poem Manifest Size 21x14.8 cm, 250 Pages, Laserprint ... A manifest to online love poem generators. I replaced the last human touch with a completely generated book which makes it original again. ... Thijmen van Brunschot | The Hague ... Thijmen van Brunschot is a multidisciplinary graphic designer focussing on self initiated and artistic projects within the field of art and design. Projects include publications, posters, books and installations which are mostly social and political engaged. I am also active in the Royal Chess Club.
Farmer No.1 Oil Painting ... From the series called�Losers Farm�. This farm is like a small utopia. It gathers different kinds of people with different vocations. The artist is like a documentary photographer, records for this community with portrait photography. Then a title is added to describe the roles. ...
Chu Chun Yeh | Taipei ... Fine Art National Taipei University of Education ... Chu chun focus on flat painting to explore the relationship between human and society, urban civilization, and social class. Influenced by Japanese comic, his work combines Japanese comic style and Chinese ink. Painting like portrait photography, Chu chun depicts a sense of alienation among communities. She combines standardized characters with other materials, trying to show the strange sense of absurd and existence, exploring self-image and self-orientation.
La leñera de Poo - Poo Woodshed Drawing ... This drawing reminds me the verse “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.” ... The drawing is done in a small town in the north where there is a lot of firewood stacked on a wall. ... Pablo Valle | Madrid ... Fine Arts University of Cuenca ... Resident Artist at Gallery Rafael Perez Hernando
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