Exhibition

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Date：2010-09-18 ∼ 2010-10-24

Title：Tropical Plant - Teerawat Mulvilai video installation

Venue：草山92藝文中心

Born in Chiang Rai, Thailand, Teerawat Mulvilai is a versatile physical performer with training in diverse techniques, from Butoh to Tob Ma Pab (Northern Thai Martial Art) to modern dance.
In 2006, during his residence in Taipei Artist Village, he explored the life of Thai migrant workers and delivered to public in performance piece entitled “Goda-gardener”. For this time of residency, he would like to propose his project of finding people who he had interviewed 4 years ago. How do they change? Have they changed?
Artist interested in the idea of “Transnational Communities” so he would like to research and get it Thai migrant community to find the way they keep their identity and built their own culture in the other land, presented through Documentary film and Performance.

Exhibition
Tropical Plant/video installation
Time:2010/9/18~10/24
Opening: 2010/9/18,11a.m.
Site: GAV 92 Art Center

Workshop&Filming：The Hill （Register）
Time: 2010/9/18,1:30a.m~5:30p.m.
Site: THAV/Outdoor

Performance
THAV’s Great opening activity
Time:2010/10/2, 3p.m.& 2010/10/3, 3p.m.

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Date：2010-09-24 ∼ 2010-10-24

Title：Substitute － Solo Exhibition of Huang Zan Lun

Venue：Barry Room

Nowadays, the creation has drifted away into genetic profiles, biochemical evolution left the human beings existence alone. What we are proud of as living like a man has slipped away and hide behind the high speed of technostructure and Data pool. Without any reality, who we are and how we live break into pieces, become hollow and weightless, and then vanish. We believe everything was just perfectly under our control, so we speed up. Intensively continuing to alienate ourselves to fit in this progressing machine-oriented world. Every machinery is made under the design of trying to look like a human being by copying the specific movements and facial expressions of a man, or in an even more perfect state. Yet, still it is a machine, substituted for human beings. What makes us believe we have the ability to play such a role to create things immortal and keep them alive?

With no introspect of what have we done, we stay alive but not living a life. Pass actual experiences, real touches and irreplaceable moments by. The natures underneath became nothing but a display. Displays on the shows, we leave them aside and eventually erased them from our memories. In the end, nothing remains, only silence, absence and stateless.

Huang Zan Lun, a young emerging artist whose works combines machine elements, installations and sculptures. Dealing with subjects such as questioning the progress of machine-oriented beliefs and reviewing the states where we were under such beliefs. His works is often imbued with emotionless, detached undertones that render his messages both alluring and ambivalent.