An experimental performance with Tai Chi, martial art and sound
Exploring contemporary technology for body and mind practice
Time: 2017.12.23, 15:00-20:30
Venue: TFAM Plaza
Artists: Xia Lin, Teng Wen-Hsin, Sheryl Cheung, DINO
Organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Curated by Taipei Contemporary Art Center
A gaze from the future asks, “Is there any reference to time in spiritual and bodily practice?” How has modern technology informed and influenced our body technology and sensory structure, generating different ideas for the future? How can we exercise a new kind of body sensibility in our pursuit of wisdom and balance based on our contemporary body and mind?
Such question is not only timeless, but also deeply connects to the understanding and expression of humanity and reflection on our individual relationship with the contemporary surroundings. Have our body adapted the speedy technology and social condition to develop different correspondence and imagination for the power of nature, mysticism, religion as well as artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence resulting from the influx of Big Data and cloud computing has greatly occupied our everyday life, taking over our reaction and communication capability, and thus new ways of perceiving and how to practice among media, machine and human should be contemplated.
Future Tao invites artists to express their contemporary life and artistic practice. A series of performance will be staged featuring Tai Chi, martial art, VJ and experimental sound, inviting you to groove with new beats and energy and develop new motion, exercise and imagination on a journey without horizon.
[detailed event info]
15:00-17:00 Participatory Events: 3C Xing Yi Quan and Collective Data Fall by Xia Lin
Event info & RSVP: http://bit.ly/2kTzoor
19:00-20:30 Sound Performance
by Teng Wen-Hsin, Sheryl Cheung, DINO
About the Artists
Xia Lin is the co-founder and artist of lololol.net. Lin employs multimedia, video, text and performance for her artistic practice which concerns the interaction between technology and body in our modern life. She participated in The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale by Homeostasis Lab, and showed in Jeju Nation Museum of Art and Temporal Art Festival. Lin has recently built new conversations between her Tai Chi exercise and artistic practice. She has developed and shown her latest project 3C Xing Yi Quan in Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, and performed in Ting Shuo Hear Say and Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre this year (2017).
Teng Wen-Hsin holds a MFA in New Media Art from National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA), and she is a new media artist, digital art performer, and the lead singer of the indie band ATW Girl. She began staging audio-visual performances as a DJ and VJ under the name YUGU in 2017.
Teng employs digital sound, electronic music, video and video installation to interpret technology and life via her sound and visual experiments. The anxiety and tension between human and technology has been central to her artistic concern, as she explores ways to express the soul and the digital ego. Her work Prisoners under the Torch (director and sound design) was awarded first prize of the 7th Digital Art Performance in 2016. She has performed and exhibited in many music and art festivals in Taiwan, France, China, Turkey, UK and Poland.
Sheryl Cheung was raised in Taipei, New York, and Beijing. She works between sound, installation, and performance to explore a material concept of life. Her current project uses plants as medium to question the motivations that drive us to innately prosper and persevere. Cheung has a background in abstract painting and choral music, and in her work today she continues to respond to the affects between multiple forces to create a field of energy flow. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Taipei Contemporary Art Center; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; Osmosis Audiovisual Festival; Lacking Sound Festival; JOLT Arts Festival; and Jeju National Art Museum. Her performance Inland was nominated for Arte Laguna Art Prize in 2013.
Dino (aka Liao Ming-He) is a guqin (an ancient stringed Chinese musical instrument) maker and noise performer based in Taipei. Former bassist of the Clippers Band, he is a seminal figure in the second-wave noise movement in Taiwan during the late 1990s. He uses simple analogue equipment to create electronic sound without any input, which is known as ‘recycle music’ by generating loops from circuitry noise, static, or microphone feedback. Dino’s recent endeavors include experimental films and live music production for the theatre. He was awarded Best Sound Effects in Taipei Film Festival (2003). Dino’s particular fondness for British punk subculture and traditional Chinese classics has influenced both his work and life.