Mythe Makers - Spectrosynthesis III
神話製造者——光．合作用 III
24 Dec 2022 - 10 Apr 2023
Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s first large-scale survey exhibition on LGBTQ+ perspectives, will be opening to the public on 24 December! 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 draws inspiration from the core notion of “queer mythologies”, and furthermore delves into the “new traditions” of our times—of spectacle and celebrity, playful and/or transgressive—along with non-normative bodily practices and histories in artworks by contemporary artists. With over 100 artworks in all Tai Kwun Contemporary galleries, a third of which are loaned from the collection of Sunpride Foundation, 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 expands on the 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 series from Taipei, Bangkok, and now Hong Kong.
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Inti Guerrero and Chantal Wong
C͟o͟-p͟r͟e͟s͟e͟n͟t͟e͟r͟
Sunpride Foundation
S͟p͟e͟c͟i͟a͟l͟ P͟u͟b͟l͟i͟c͟a͟t͟i͟o͟n͟ C͟o͟l͟l͟a͟b͟o͟r͟a͟t͟i͟o͟n͟
Queer Reads Library
香港首個以 LGBTQ+ 為題的大型展覽，「神話製造者——光．合作用 III」將於12月24日公眾開放。展覽從核心概念「酷兒神話」汲取靈感，同時也探討了我們這個時代的各種「新傳統」，包括奇觀和名人文化，嬉戲和/或越界，以及當代藝術作品中非規範的身體實踐和歷史。超過100件藝術品將進駐大館當代美術館的所有展廳，而其中三分之一的作品皆借自驕陽基金會的收藏。曾在台北和曼谷舉辦的「光．合作用」系列是次以「神話製造者」為題延伸至香港。
策展人
Inti Guerrero與黃子欣
合辦方
驕陽基金會
特別出版企劃
流動閱酷
Turn Beauty into Strength
美∞力
29 April - 3 May 2022
Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan
A side event of Asia Pride Game 2022
2022亞洲同志運動會延伸展覽
We praise the moments of sports events when athletes actualise their full potential “the showcasing of strength and beauty”. Inspired by this concept, Coexist Exhibition named its exclusive exhibition project “Turn beauty into strength” to celebrate the launch of Pride Games.
“Beauty” is what most people think of art. But with “strength” joining force, “beauty” has the opportunity to enrich its essence with actual practice and labour in the course of “sports”. The exhibition is divided into three sub-themes - “Sports”, “Art Movement” and “Social Movement”. Through looking into different forms of “movement”, the exhibition invites creative workers who share interest in gender issues to show and present their works. On the basis of confined duration and space, the exhibition demonstrates the history of Pride Games and gender equality movement in Taiwan, as well as a creative marathon of contemporary artists using diverse mediums. By deconstructing and restructuring the concept of “turning beauty into strength”, we can have a glimpse of how two forces in friction and collision position themselves in the others’ viewing and self expression, and the dialogic relationship between individuals and the community.
Four participating artists, who are often involved in image processing, developed their personal relationship diagrams through the early, middle, and late stages of image processing. All kinds of relationships develop as phenomena through the effort of the involved one, it is a mixture of all dictions of close.
人們常用「力與美的表現」來形容運動賽事時，運動員爆發潛力的每個瞬間，「美∞力」的活動名稱延伸上述靈感，由多元成展 (Coexist Exhibition) 召集，是一個搭配同運會所舉辦的限時限地展演企劃。
「美」是多數人對於藝術的想像，然而「力」的加入，才有機會讓「美」在「運動」的過程中，增添更多實踐與勞動的內涵，活動現場分成「體育運動」、「藝術運動」與「社會運動」三個子題，希望藉由不同的「運動」型態，邀請對性別議題有興趣的創作者，於會展期間進行展示和發表，希望在限時限地的基礎上，展示同運會的歷史、台灣性別平等運動的歷史，以及不分媒材的當代藝術家接力創作，在解構並重組「美∞力」的觀點中，一瞥「美∞力」如何在摩擦與碰撞裡，面對他人觀看之於自我展現的處境，以及單獨個體之於社會群體之間的對話關係。
Close,
21 January - 27 February 2022
Wure Area, Hong Kong
Usage of valediction in the letter structure is flooded due to thousands of sending and receiving. The customary and formal blessings may cover up the sincerity.
"Close", the exhibition topic, is challenging the possibility of becoming a valediction, which can comprehend as closed, not open, to end, to stop operating, careful, secretive, lacking air, near, similar, intimacy and so on. This magic ending word requires both the sender and receiver to believe in each other to align the corresponding interpretation even they are having different values of perspective for their relationship.
Four participating artists, who are often involved in image processing, developed their personal relationship diagrams through the early, middle, and late stages of image processing. All kinds of relationships develop as phenomena through the effort of the involved one, it is a mixture of all dictions of close.
文字式通訊的結構應用泛濫，信件中的結束語經歷了萬千次的往來，當中慣用的禮儀與祝願不免過多，形式上的祝福難免掩蓋了不少真實的誠意與期昐。
展覽題目是想像以“Close”成為結束語的可能性，五個英文字母組合後可以解讀成關閉、不開放、停止、結尾、密切的、團結的、親密的、仔細的、隱秘的或封閉的等等，甲方與乙方彼此渴望、確實和應有的關係在各自的世界觀下存在著分歧。含糊的結束語在挑戰彼此的差異，當信任對方的文字時，才能讓密語成立。
你的真誠和你的忠誠何時會如實呢？
Repetition Maximum (Artist Performance)
5pm-6pm, 30 October 2021
From JCCAC to RNH Space, Hong Kong
A performance for the duo exhibition “Too Good to Be True” and “Till Love Do Us Part”
“Repetition maximum” (RM) is a concept in weight training, referring to the most weight you can lift for a defined number of exercise movements. The performance is a voyage through time and space. Led by the artist and different media, surveying the bodies of our own and others, we re-evaluate the weight of our torsos in the society of the spectacle filled with digital images.
「最大重複次數」（RM）是一個健身中常用的概念，所指要求做某個動作能夠做到特定次數的情況下，此時舉重員能承受最大的重量是什麼。是次表演將此概念融入對人體的審視，把「特定次數」轉化為一種物理距離，藝術家透過對自身極限的挑戰，開展一段跨越時間和空間的旅程。藝術家透過不同媒介帶領觀者重新思考在充斥數碼圖像的景觀社會，我們肉身的重量。
Till Love Do Us Part
30 October - 12 December 2021
RNH Space, Hong Kong
Curated by Yang Jiang
Using images of human body obtained from gay dating apps and cityscape photographed at cruising spots, Liao Jiaming creates photo installations and prints. One’s feelings of angst, insecurity and doubts in finding love subtly permeate this body of works, whilst it questions the social norms that hold the reins to our understanding of ideality.
廖家明利用男同性戀交友應用程式上的人體圖像、「魚塘」的城市影像創作圖像裝置和攝影作品。作品中細膩地滲透著尋愛過程中的焦慮、不安、疑惑等情感，並質疑社會規範操縱人步向所謂完美主義之理想。
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