Sense the Silhouette of Lust: 2009 Glenfiddich AIR Party

Jun-Jieh Wang was born in 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan. He graduated from the HdK Art Academy in Berlin, completing a master class, the highest qualification to be obtained. A pioneer of video art in Taiwan, he is one of the country's few noted media artists as well as an independent curator. He received the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award in 1984, the Berlin Television Tower Award in 1996 and Taishin Arts Award in 2009. He is currently assistant professor at the Graduate School of Art and Technology at Taipei National University of the Arts and Director of Center for Art and Technology.

Wang participated in various major international exhibitions, including the Gwangju Biennale, Venice Biennale, Johannesburg Biennale, Asian Art Triennale, Asia Pacific Triennial, Taipei Biennial as well as "Cities on the Move" at the Vienna Secession. He was selected by the Japanese art magazine "Bijutsu Techo" as one of the "100 notable artists in 2000". In 2002, Wang was the subject of Japan's NHK documentary "Asian Who's Who", which was aired on NHK's global channel.

Wang's work as curator includes: "Grand Illusion" (National Concert Hall), "2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), "B!AS: International Sound Art Exhibition" (Taipei Fine Arts Museum), "Navigator: Digital Art in the Making" (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts) and "Faces of the Time" (National Palace Museum).

In 2006, in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra, R.O.C., he served as Staging Visual Director for the Taiwan premiere of Wagner's complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Project Rrose: Real Flux

Invited by Glennfiddich Distillery for the Artist in Resident Plan in 2009, subtitled Real Flux is Project Rrose’s first creation program. Associating with Duchamp’s work in thinking, it represents the basic desire of people’s inner world with the image based on Scottish scenery and the well-known whisky distillery. It could be a peep-through and also a fluid release. Just like the major elements ‘eroticism’ of Duchamp’s creation throughout his life, it leads viewers into different imaginary space to figure out who they are and the relation between the environment and themselves. “Everything can be based on an erotic climate without too much trouble. I believe in eroticism a lot, because it’s truly a rather widespread thing throughout the world, a thing that everyone understands.” Real Flux is composed of three parts: stock house gate of 45 Glennfiddich Distilleries, a four-minutes-and-14-seconds video, and two photos on a wall. Through the gate imagination is opened. Fluid whisky and spring water, association of Scottish Highlands and sexual desire, all represent the combination of people’s physical labor and desire in daily lives. Everything here seems plain and precious. As for art that was sentenced to death by Duchamp, what else it has left is nothing but true life, love and death.