The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei is showcasing emerging artists from Taiwan and other nations with a pair of exhibitions that are to open to the public today, “The Proto-ocean for Co-consciousness” and “Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project.”
The Proto-ocean for Co-consciousness is an examination of consciousness, consensus and technology’s implication for the concepts, exhibition project manager Sun Yi-cheng (孫以臻) told a pre-launch event at the museum yesterday.
The exhibition includes a biomechanical construct made using the artist’s nerve cells and analog voice synthesizers that produce sounds in response to live music, pieces that explore the body, consciousness and the nature of the religious experience and several works based on virtual reality technology, Sun said.
Photo courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei via CNA
The artists featured in the exhibition include Xia Lin (林亭君) and Sheryl Cheung (張欣) from the lololol group, Li Yi-ho (李懿澕) and Cheng Yi-ting (鄭伊婷) from CURIOSKI, Spela Petric and Guy Ben-Ary, Sun said.
Making Worlds: An Imagineering Project, headed by Wang Han-fang (王韓芳), uses Disney theme parks as inspiration to reflect on the entertainment industry’s use of immersion, replication and “gamification” that have blurred the boundaries of reality and fantasy, Sun said.
The exhibition calls attention to the replicated experience of simulated joy that proliferates in and superimposes on the real, creating highly commercialized and controlled spaces that engage people as consumers, the museum said.
Creations in the exhibition include Entangled4(Theatre IV), which transports viewers into two interrelated videos featuring Hetty King and Vesta Tilley, Victorian-era male impersonators, where the “past and the present become entangled as modern actors interpret historical roles” and Erika Beckman’s Hiatus, which explores the gamification of everyday life, the museum’s Web site says.
Other artists include Kosta Tonev, Chang Yun-han (張允菡), Chang Wen-hsuan (張紋瑄) and Lindsay Seers, it says.
The exhibitions are to run until Jan. 29.
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