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| 每一個花萼都是棲息之所 - 第十三屆台北文化獎推廣活動 |
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| 專題介紹 Introduction |
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The Taipei Culture Award has officially entered its thirteenth year. This year's recipients, IT Park, for fostering numerous artistic talents over the past 20 years, and Chiang Hsun, for his long-term commitment to aesthetic education, were honored for their dedication to promoting "Aesthetics in Life."
The View of Beauty
To View the “City” & “People’s” Aesthetics in Life
Thirteenth Taipei Culture Award “IT Park” Promotion Event
Venue: Taipei City Hall
Every Chalice is a Dwelling Place
Text by Chen Hui-Chiao
By making something beautiful, objects undergo a transformation; refine the beauty, and it becomes something else entirely. You are but a beautiful flower in a spiritual garden!
Within every person, there is a garden of the utmost purity where one’s imagination can freely take flight. Everyone has such a secret garden, an all-encompassing transfer station for the soul; this is a "spiritual place" that transcends culture and religion. In other words, our dreams allow us to create our reality and to manifest the images for each of our lives.
We reside within this small garden, even as much as it resides within us. We metaphorically construct a home within this plot, the foundation for our spiritual structure. No matter what soil fate has chosen to sow our seeds, the importance is that the "House of Dreams," known as IT Park, has brought us all together.
Each chalice is a dwelling place in which everyone rediscovers midnight. Like a vast expanding sky comfortably sitting on an endless horizon, an awe-inspiring power watches over the existence of all that resides within this dwelling place.
Our interaction is not merely a direction full of imagination, but it is also a mood projected by a "poem." Dreams come and go. We come from an inwardly cohesive home, harbored within an ever-expanding city. To inhabit such a transitory state is better than living in a static and certain one.
Imagination is required to open a soul; imagination is needed for us to move forward. The world is our imagination. We attract everything that happens to us in our lives; they are a manifestation of our heart's intentions. As Einstein once said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
IT Park Exhibition
The thirteenth annual Taipei Culture Award recipient, IT Park, was formed by architect, Chi Ti-Nan, and participating artists. Utilizing a horizontal layout to recreate the concept of IT Park gallery, floors two to four of the gallery were replicated through the process of cutting, diverting, and restructuring, and placed within Taipei City Hall's Shen Pao-Chen Hall (center courtyard). Within this replicated space, ten artists: Tsong Pu (b. 1947), Ku Shih-Yung (b. 1960), Chu Chia-Hua (b. 1960), Wang Jun-Jieh (b. 1963), Chen Shun-Chu (b. 1963), Chen Hui-Chiao (b. 1964), Michael Lin (b. 1964), Yuan Goang-Ming (b. 1965), Yao Jui-Chung (b. 1969), Wu Chi-Tsung (b. 1981) will showcase their unique expression of the theme, "Each Chalice is a Dwelling Place." Each exhibition space is independent, but is bonded through a symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship. Here, the individual is a metaphor for the collective whole, while the collective whole is the coincidence of differences.
The concept of "Spatial Replication" was utilized by internationally renowned curator, Hou Hanru, in the 2002 "Gwangju Biennale." The simple surface layout of the rhizome like space can allude to complex associations just as Walter Benjamin showcased cross-sections of a Baroque opera house through the use of ruins and debris. From each instance of these ten artists' works, we can sense the continuum of IT Park gallery through time and space.
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