The More The Merrier
多多益善-聲音實驗計劃
2011/02/26~2011/03/27
多多益善-聲音實驗計劃
2011/02/26~2011/03/27
From February 22 onwards, and especially at the opening, everyone is warmly welcome to bring any piece of equipment or furniture that s/he considers relevant and useful for our recording studio (e.g. microphones, loudspeakers, headphones, recordings, recording devices, radios, radio transmitters, chairs, coffeemakers, carpets, cables, teapots, snacks, drinks, magazines, posters, lamps, books, CDs, LPs, or other additions to our growing library). You may leave your piece in the studio as long as you wish and pick it up at any time.
The More The Merrier is a process-driven experiment that turns Project Fulfill Art Space into a sound recording studio. Organized by Hong-Kai Wang (Taiwan) and Jens Maier-Rothe (German), for the duration of four weeks, the gallery will be transformed into a site of collective reflection, reception and production. We want people to get involved in this experiment by joining us for the opening night, our workshop sessions, the symposium, or any of the other upcoming activities. During all events we will use the recording studio as a site to publicly share and discuss our different perspectives on the current status of activist struggle and discursive art practice in Taiwans contemporary cultural landscape. Do we need more discursive and critical art in Taiwan? What kind of communities are necessary, what kind of institutional contexts do we imagine? How do our social roles and political convictions link up to our collective listening experiences, and vice versa? How is listening organised to shape notions of collective memory and public space? What makes recording a critical practice, or the archive itself a site of critique? Is there a dominance of Western thinking models that needs to be challenged in Taiwan? Following questions like these, The More The Merrier attempts to employ audio devices such as microphones, recorders and loudspeakers as conceptual and contextual tools to provide a framework for fruitful debates on functional working models of resistance within local struggles in Taiwan. The discussion process will be inspired by three strands: recording and listening as pedagogical tools, mutual exchange, an ongoing transformation of the gallery space. All three parts will be mutually influencing each other. The resonant character of the space and the ongoing conversation will continuously shape the record, while at the same time every shared moment of listening and recording will affect our constituency as a collective, and the way our group resonates and operates with/in that shifting environment. Ultimately, we hope that our collective experience will help to gain further knowledge about the social and political dimensions of listening and recording, and their embedments in the discursive production of spaces, histories, and ideologies. About the organizers Hong-Kai Wang is a New York-based Taiwanese artist primarily working with sound as a conceptual means to investigate social relations and to explore the construction of new social space in everyday life. Jens Maier-Rothe is a curator and artist based in Berlin whose practice combines exhibition making with artistic research and writing. In 2008 he founded the curatorial platform Sonic Thinking. Project Fulfill Art Space was established in August of 2008 in Taipei with the goal of providing a platform for contemporary art. Its mission is to foster project-based work that is distinctive and challenging, both aesthetically and conceptually. More information: http://www.w-h-k.net http://sonicthinking.org In cooperation with Goethe-Institut(Taipei) 開幕酒會2月26日 6~9 p.m. 7p.m. echo樂團主唱吳柏蒼特別演出 展覽期間2/27日及每周六皆舉辦工作坊,設計出有別於一般座談會的進行形式或內容,希望大家能來共享盛舉討論及整理以下的提問。 22日起,特別是開幕當天,我們歡迎大家帶來任何您們覺得適合用於建立我們這個錄音工作室的器材或家俱 (例如:麥克風、喇叭、耳機、錄音資料和錄音設備、收音機和無線電發射機、椅子、咖啡機、地毯、電線、茶壺、點心、飲料、雜誌、海報、燈和書籍、CDs、黑膠唱片或其他您覺得可以加入我們的錄音資料庫)。您可以將這些東西留在錄音室並且隨時可以拿回去 。 「多多益善」是一個強調與著重過程的聲音實驗計劃,由台灣聲音藝術家王虹凱及德國策展人Jens Maier-Roth邀請來自不同領域的藝術工作者,將就在藝術空間轉換為一間為期四週臨時錄音工作室,並做為公開分享及討論台灣當代文化行動主義者及藝術論述實踐,兼具集體反思、生產創作和舉辦工作坊、研討會的多功能空間。 此計劃的中心概念是希望能從探討錄音在臺灣當代藝術脈絡裡(跨領域)做為一種政治行為起點,進而開始建立起一個具有自發性的本土的集體思考平臺。 在台灣是否需要更多的論述性及批判性藝術?我們需要什麼樣的社群,和什麼樣形式的建制化脈絡?我們的社會角色、政治信念和論述性訓練如何與我們集體的主觀聽覺體驗產生關聯,那反過來看呢?聆聽如何透過主觀組織性的體驗形塑我們對集體記憶與公共空間的見解?是什麼讓錄音成為一個具批判性的實踐,或是,什麼讓資料庫成為一個批判的場域?在台灣,我們如何面對並挑戰掌握主導權的西方思考模式? 「多多益善」嘗試利用音響設備(比如麥克風、錄音機、喇叭等)做為概念化及文本化的工具,創造一個集體思考架構,進而有效討論各種可行的實踐行動模式。從以下三個彼此息息相關的主題為起點進行討論:(一)錄音和聆聽做為教育學習的工具 (二)開放性的交換 (三)畫廊空間性格的持續轉換。空間既有的共鳴特性和我們不斷進行中的對話,將會持續形塑在這空間中生產的錄音;我們一起聆聽和分享錄音過程的每一時刻,將會影響我們如何組織成一個集體,和我們在一個空間場域裡如何互相激盪共鳴。我們希望我們的集體經驗能協助進一步學習探究"聆聽"和"錄音"的社會政治面向,以及它們如何成為空間、歷史與意識形態的論述性生產過程的一部分。 關於籌劃人 王虹凱是住在紐約的臺灣藝術家,作品主要以聲音做為概念性手段來研究社會關係,並在每天生活世界中探索架構新社會空間的可能性。Jens Maier-Rothe是居住於柏林的德國策展人及藝術家,他的工作結合展覽策劃與藝術研究和寫作。2008年他成立策展平台,Sonic Thinking,透過對聲音的物質性的檢驗,希望在當代藝術的脈絡裡找到能反應出聽覺經驗的社會及政治面相。王虹凱的多聲道聲音裝置Setting Up the Banquet,曾於2010年四月Jens Maier-Rothe在紐約Diapason Gallery策劃的群展「無題」(共鳴)中展出。 相關資訊請參閱以下聯結: http://www.w-h-k.net http://sonicthinking.org 就在藝術獲 財團法人國家文化藝術基金會 贊助 展覽贊助:台北市文化局 協辦單位:台北歌徳學院(德國文化中心) 特別感謝:回聲樂團 ECHO |
藝術家 Artists
WANG Fujui 王福瑞 WU Mu-Ching 吳牧青 CHEN Steve 陳史帝 JAO Chia-En 饒加恩 CHENG Huei-hwa 鄭慧華 WANG Hong-Kai 王虹凱 Jens Maier-Rothe |