The 2023 annual exhibition of C-LAB, Memory Palace in Ruins, explores the historical memories in dislocated time and space from the perspective of mediums, with the intersecting themes of “textualized history” and “materialized memories” to interrogate how historical memories remain in the contemporary life. The exhibition focuses on the past events as well as what afterwards happened to the historical moments, and how they were reinterpreted and reutilized, turning into cultural memories in another form.
During the exhibition period, two artist talks will be hosted, with joining artists from home and abroad invited to talk with the curator YU Wei and share how their creative ideas respond to the issues raised in the exhibition. The sessions are as follows:
▌Session 1｜06/10 (SAT) 14:00－16:00
Participants: AKI INOMATA, CHE Onejoon, dj sniff, Jack BURTON, Shingo KANAGAWA, Yu ARAKI (Consecutive translation will be provided during the talk.)
Moderator: YU Wei
Venue: CREATORS’ Space R102 Coworking Space
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Participants
｜AKI INOMATA
AKI INOMATA's work focuses on the act of "making" which is not exclusive to human beings, INOMATA creates art works with various species “collaboratively.” She investigates relationships between animals, human beings and the creation emerging from them. Her major works include Why Not Hand Over a "Shelter” to Hermit Crabs?, an attempt she created 3D printed shells for hermit crabs, and I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair, in which the artist and her dog wear capes made from each other’s respective hair. Her recent exhibitions include Broken Nature (MoMA, New York, USA, 2021), AKI INOMATA: Significant Otherness (Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan, 2019), The XXII Triennale di Milano (Italy, 2019), Thailand Biennale (Krabi, 2018), and AKI INOMATA: Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to Hermit Crabs? (Musée d’arts de Nantes, France, 2018).
｜CHE Onejoon
Che Onejoon is a visual artist and filmmaker. Che is interested in how changes in social structures, such as politics and ideology, affect the places where people live and their identities. In his early work, he revealed the hidden context of the Cold War ideology across the Korean Peninsula through photography, film, and archives. Since 2013, he has been researching on the relationship between Africa and East Asia. His recent works include International Friendship, which explores the historical events surrounding statues and monuments built by North Korea in Africa; My Utopia, a documentary theater about the daughter of the first president of Equatorial Guinea who grew up in North Korea; and Capital Black, which exposes the diaspora culture of African communities around US military bases in South Korea. Che has exhibited internationally at Taipei Biennial (2008), Palais de Tokyo modules (2012), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2014), New Museum Triennial (2015), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019), Jakarta Biennale(2021), and so forth.
｜dj sniff
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. His collaborations include Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Martin Tetreault, Paul Hubweber, Tarek Atoui, and Senyawa. He has held positions as Artistic Director of STEIM Amsterdam (2007-2012), Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong (2012-2017), and Associate Professor at Kyoto Seika University (2020-2022). He is currently based in Los Angeles and acts as Co-Director of AMF (Asian Meeting Festival). In 2022, he released his latest vinyl record Parallel Traces of the Jewel Voice which deals with Japan’s historical broadcast at the end of WW2 and its reception in Taiwan.
｜Jack BURTON
Born in South Wales, now live in Brussels. Burton graduated in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. His more recent solo exhibitions include Brico Jack at 10N (Brussels, 2023), Music For An Exhibition Volume 1’at The Gimp (Berlin, 2022), Must Everything Go? at Cunst-link (Brussels, 2022), Long Distance Highway Hotel at Mauve (Vienna, 2022) and group exhibitions include New Space Show at Gesso Art Space (Vienna, 2021), Europa and the Rock online exhibition at Barbara Thumm (Berlin, 2020).
｜Shingo KANAGAWA
Shingo Kanagawa earned his master’s degree and doctorate respectively from Kobe University and Tokyo University of the Arts. His solo exhibitions include Nagaima at the Yokohama Civic Art Gallery in Kanagawa (2018), father 2009.04.10- at gallery176 in Osaka (2017), father 2009.09- at the Shin-juku Nikon Salon in Tokyo (2016), and home for the aged at the Ginza Nikon Salon in Tokyo (2014). He is also the author of two photo books—father (published by Seigensha, 2016) and “and animals” (published by MUESUM, 2009).
｜Yu ARAKI
Born 1985 in Yamagata City, Japan, and currently based in Kyoto, Japan, Araki received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A., and completed his Master of Film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts. Recent exhibitions include Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka; Chengdu Times Art Museum, Chengdu; Museum DKM, Duisburg; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. His films have been programmed in international festivals such as Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, FID Marseille, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, BFI London Film Festival and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. He was selected the Future Generation Art Prize hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine and received the Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award from Film Festival Rotterdam, the U39 Artist Fellowship Grant recipient from Arts Commission Yokohama, and the Special Award at Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 in Tokyo, Japan.
Moderator
｜YU Wei
Curator of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Yu has served as an editor for ARTCO magazine from 2005 to 2007. He obtained his PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck (London Consortium), University of London. His research primarily focuses on Taiwan's art and visual culture in the post-war era. Yu has curated various exhibitions, including Shoot the Pianist: The Noise Scene in Taipei 1990–1995 (2015) at Peltz Gallery in London. He also co-curated Broken Spectre (2017) with ET@T, which was shortlisted for the 16th Taishin Arts Award. Since 2018, Yu has been involved in several curatorial projects at C-LAB, such as Yao Jui Chung – Republic of the Cynic (2020) and Minimal Input: Algorithmic Arts Gathering (2022). Additionally, he has organized the C-LAB forum, A Future Slowly Cancelled, and the C-LAB annual exhibition, Memory Palace in Ruins, both held in 2023.
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▌Session 2｜07/15 (SAT) 16:00－17:30
Participants: LEE Yung-Chih, HSU Chih-Yu, HSU Che-Yu/CHEN Wan-Yin, HSIEH Yung-Cheng
Moderator: YU Wei
Venue:CREATORS’ Space R102 Coworking Space
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Participants
｜LEE Yung-Chih
Lee Yung-Chih graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts with a master's degree in New Media Art. Informed by his own experiences of growing up in an industrial region, Lee's art centers around two pivotal themes: the significance of locality and the corporeal memory of communal labor in a factory setting. By examining Taiwan's irrevocable current condition amid globalization, modernization, and individualization of tastes, he explores the way art manifests as veiled expressions of nostalgia when confronted with a helpless future. Prominent recent exhibitions and events featuring his work include the Biennale Jogja in Indonesia (2019), The Secret South: From Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection (2020) at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Phantasmapolis - the 2021 Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. In 2022, he was selected to participate in C-LAB’s CREATORS Creation/Support program, where he curated several public events.
｜HSU Chih-Yu
Born in 1990 in Taiwan, Hsu Chih-Yu graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, where she majored in sculpture. The artist’s research questions the history and the use of exhibits displayed in museums from an amateur’s point of view. Often using materials such as paper clay, styrofoam, and sponge to reconfigure the appearance of museums in her memory, Hsu attempts to manufacture a museum-like space where one can freely make collages and unleash the imagination. By employing a non-functional museum setting, Hsu seeks to guide the audience towards re-examining objects and liberating their imaginations regarding them. Her previous solo exhibitions include Cabinet of Permutations (2023), Spiral Maze (2022), A Flat Stone and A Rounded Pebble (2022). Her works are featured in group exhibitions such as Yambaru Art Festival (2023) in Japan, Artists’ Fair 2021 (2021), and 6.6 (2019).
｜HSU Che-Yu
Hsu Che-Yu received his master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan. He has previously participated in residency programs at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium and Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. In 2022, he began a two-year art residency at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Hsu’s artistic creations predominantly consist of animations, videos, and installations, with a focus on the relationship between media and memories. For the artist, the history constituted by events that can be traced through media is not of utmost importance. Rather, the processes by which memories are constructed and perceived, whether personal or collective, hold greater significance. Hsu has been included in numerous exhibitions: the Bienal de São Paulo (2021), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021), Sonsbeek20→24 Quadrennial Public Program (2021), VIDEONALE.18 (2021), Shanghai Biennale (2018), London Design Biennale (2018), and Asian Art Biennial (2017).
｜CHEN Wan-Yin
Writer and researcher. She was the editor of Mandarin art magazine Art Critique of Taiwan (from 2011 to 2012) and Artist Magazine (from 2014 to 2017). And she participated in art projects affiliated with museums as writer and editor: Broken Spectre (Taipei Fine Art Museum, 2017) and Phantas.ma/polis (Asian Art Biennale at National Taiwan Museum, 2021). Recent essays are published on Taipei Fine Arts Museum Modern Art, Voices of Photography. Her interests lie in artistic confrontations with the entanglements of coloniality in art historiography. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in modern and contemporary art history at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
｜HSIEH Yung-Cheng
The artistic endeavors of Hsieh Yung-Cheng focus on the elements that constitute physical perception. He addresses sensory experiences by employing textures and visual expressions; he probes corporeality in linguistic frameworks by rewriting different texts. A body understood through different approaches is perceived as a product shaped by specific circumstances and environments. More, when a body’s performing act is contrasted with an assortment of heterogeneous mediums, it is no longer a mere object to be depicted, but instead takes on a role in sculpting the artwork. What the artist looks for is a moderate looseness for words and body to flow amid the process of converting images and texts among different mediums (genres). Within his artistic practice, text extends beyond deduction and interpretation, serving as a vital component in constructing the “self,” as the artwork encapsulates a dialogue between an iteration of the self and the surrounding world.
Moderator｜YU Wei
Curator of Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Yu has served as an editor for ARTCO magazine from 2005 to 2007. He obtained his PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck (London Consortium), University of London. His research primarily focuses on Taiwan's art and visual culture in the post-war era. Yu has curated various exhibitions, including Shoot the Pianist: The Noise Scene in Taipei 1990–1995 (2015) at Peltz Gallery in London. He also co-curated Broken Spectre (2017) with ET@T, which was shortlisted for the 16th Taishin Arts Award. Since 2018, Yu has been involved in several curatorial projects at C-LAB, such as Yao Jui Chung – Republic of the Cynic (2020) and Minimal Input: Algorithmic Arts Gathering (2022). Additionally, he has organized the C-LAB forum, A Future Slowly Cancelled, and the C-LAB annual exhibition, Memory Palace in Ruins, both held in 2023.
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