《Feeding Times》
Video and installation | Dimension variable | 2021
LIU YU + WU, SIH-CHIN
Commission by the exhibition “Housing Things : Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space”
In a certain sense, an art exhibition is a dynamic process that brings together "individuals (artists, curators, audience), events (exhibition affairs, activities), and objects (artworks)" within a specific time and space. The exhibition venue not only houses the artworks themselves, but also carries a certain privilege of detachment from reality. More precisely, we engage in discussions about various real-life issues that concern artists within the isolated chamber defined as an "art space," while the artworks themselves provide narratives and contexts.
As artists contemplate how to convey the concepts of their works, the transformation from the "private" to the "public" sphere becomes an essential process that must be dealt with. This also compels artists to attempt to envision the moment when the artwork meets the audience—how should the audience view it? Or, how should the audience be fed?
Liu Yu and Wu Sih-Chin embarked on an exploration of "feeding" in their artwork. Drawing from their own life experiences as students, they crafted a fictional short story. Within the alternative space affiliated with OUR Museum, they created an imaginative spatial video installation centered around a "reptile terrarium" This space was adorned with numerous objects, including humidifiers, cricket towers, heat lamps, artificial rock formations with water features, flowing water, and plants, all of which were reimagined by the artists as reptile accessories. These objects simultaneously fused the spatial qualities of "residence" and "exhibition space." They functioned as furniture, garden landscaping, sculptures, and acoustic panels in video room, presenting themselves in various unconventional forms within the exhibition space.
On the curtains of the second-floor space, projections played videos depicting various animal feeding scenes found on the internet, continuously looping. As viewers watched these "feeding videos," were they also being "fed" by these online video? The artists aimed to explore various definitions of "feeding" (physical feeding, cinematic feeding, sensory feeding, etc.) within the exhibition, expanding our imagination of how we engage with artworks.
《餵食秀》
錄像與空間裝置 | 尺寸因空間而異 | 2021
劉玗+吳思嶔
作品由展覽《家物事：一場發生在藝術空間的聚落與實踐》，委託製作
某種層面的定義上，一個藝術展覽是在特定的時空下集結「人（藝術家、策展人、觀眾...）、事（展務、活動）、物（作品）」的動態過程，而展場所乘載的不僅有藝術作品本身，它更乘載了某種脫離現實的特權，更精確地說，我們在被定義為「藝術場所」的隔離艙中談論著種種藝術家關切的現實議題，而藝術作品本身則提供敘事與情境。當藝術家在思考著如何讓作品概念被傳遞的同時，如何從「私人」轉換為「公眾」即是一道必須被處理的程序，這也迫使藝術家必須試圖去想像作品與觀眾相遇的時刻，如何讓觀眾觀看？或者，如何餵食觀眾？
劉玗、吳思嶔在作品中展開了一場關於「餵食」的探索，以自身在學生時期的生活經歷撰寫了一篇虛構短文小說，在有章博物館所屬的屋宅替代空間中，以「爬蟲類飼養箱」的想像製作了一個空間影像裝置，這個空間中安置了著許多物件，包含了加濕器、蟋蟀塔、保溫燈、假山水、流水與植物等各種經藝術家重塑的爬蟲用品，這些物件同時結合了「住宅」與「展場」的空間性質，它們也是家具、庭園造景、雕塑作品、視聽室的吸音板，以各種奇異的姿態呈現在展場中。二樓空間的窗簾上播放著投影，影像內容集結了網路上各種動物餵食的影片，重複的播放著。觀眾在觀看「餵食影片」的同時，是否也正被這些網路影像餵食？藝術家試圖在展覽中摸索「餵食」的各種定義（生理上的餵食、觀影的餵食、感覺的餵食等⋯），去展開我們對於觀看藝術作品的想像。
"Housing Things" Exhibition info_
https://museum.ntua.edu.tw/c01.asp?kk=3095