September 21 (Sat), 2024
Performance x Party x Special Screening “AICOT 2024 Opening Events”
Time schedule
16:00 - 17:00 Outdoor Performance by Hui Ying Tsai in Miyabi-yu Matsugashita
17:00 - 18:00 Opening Party in Shikinejima Port Waiting Room
Special Screening in Shikinejima Development Center
19:00 - 20:00 AAMP Screening Program "Time Wave Guidebook"
20:00 - 21:00 Waley Art Screening Program "Memory Trek"
21:00 - 21:30 Discussion by Inhan Cho, Peng Tsai hsun and Sung Nam Han
Admission free *Donations are welcome.
16:00 - 17:00
Outdoor Performance by Hui Ying Tsai in Matsugashita Miyabiyu Hot Spring
Matsugashita Miyabiyu Hot Spring
≪Ouroboros≫
Hui Ying Tsai / Participatory Performance
The inspiration for Ouroboros is the thousands of khipu found in the Inca Empire's archaeological sites. I will use ropes and body, within the chaos and rebirth of geothermal and tidal forces, to unravel a dimension of time and space with the audience on-site. The knots created will ultimately serve as evidence for future archaeology.
The repetitive physical labor involved in knot-tying, and the resulting knots, continually create the dispersion and regeneration of symbolic meanings as they transform and expand. My work aims to provide a phenomenological experience that transcends linguistic dialectics and returns to the viewer's sensory experience.
Cultural heritage and retrospection are built on material history. I attempt to create a path through the vast ocean of archives, using bodily sensory imagination and inter-person relationships, to connect the past and future. Perhaps by returning to, expanding, and internalizing the information in our bodies, we can grasp some evidence of the present.
Video screening program by AAMP (Korea)
19:00 - 20:00
AAMP Screening Program
"Time Wave Guidebook"
Shikinejima Development Center
Eun Keong Yun / Radio Telescope / digital / 27min. / 2023 / Korea
Beatriz Mariano / Dominion / digital / 8min. / 2023 / Philippines
Justin Jinsoo Kim / Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire / digital / 19min. / 2024 / USA, Korea
≪Radio Telescope≫
Eun Keong Yun / digital / 27min. / 2023 / Korea
“From the future that is yet to come, the first sound comes to find us.” The film changes voices, alters radio waves, and adjusts frequencies. We begin to see, what could not have been seen, and we begin to hear what could not have been heard.
≪Dominion≫
Beatriz Mariano / digital / 8min. / 2023 / Philippines
Landscapes, things, men, women and children taken by an "evil eye" more than a century ago haunt the present in this jagged reverie. A persona voicelessly narrates, via captions, going through colonial photographs, digresses to eating fruit and entering a cave on a tropical vacation island.
≪Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire≫
Justin Jinsoo KIM / digital / 19min. / 2024 / USA, Korea
For the purpose of collection, preservation, and recording, numerous faces that existed in different times and places densely gather in a single space. Among them are photos of Koreans taken during the Japanese occupation era for physical measurements and Buddha statues with severed heads for reasons unknown.
≪Time Wave Guidebook≫
'Time Wave' is a scientific concept referring to devices or phenomena typically used to manipulate or traverse time, commonly featured in SF novels. In Larry Niven's novel 'A World Out of Time,'(1976), The Time Wave enables the protagonist, Stephan, to journey through various time periods, allowing him to explore different points in the past and future. In this screening program, three travelers teach how to use this Time Waves.
Inhan Cho
AAMP is a curatorial platform for Asian moving images. AAMP’s aim is to build an open network for individuals and institutes in Asia that research and produce moving images and to foster new discourses on contemporary art practices. Invited participants collectively circulate critical ideas and experiment curatorial practices on moving images through shared research materials and artistic projects. AAMP operates as a platform for these activities.
AAMP begins to shape a plan in response to the need to map contemporary moving images works produced in various regions in Asia. As an alternative platform, AAMP builds tools and environment for more than a traditional research based on collective activities of curators, artists, scholars, and institutes. Through collective works, we hope to explore different ways of sharing, archiving, and curating research contents. Especially we expand the boundary of curatorial practice to the concept between knowledge production and artistic practice, which also brings certain changes on areas of online/offline screening and distribution.
Video screening program by Waley Art (Taiwan)
20:00 - 21:00
Waley Art Screening Program
"Memory Trek"
Michelle Lee Ho Wing / Bookmark the Landmark / digital / 17min. 45sec. / 2023 / Hong Kong
Mao Yo Wen / The Exceptional State of History / digital / 25min. 7sec. / 2023 / Taiwan
Zhao Ruo Tong / Around the World 2023 / digital / 11min. / 2024 / Taiwan
≪Bookmark the Landmark≫
Michelle Lee Ho Wing / digital / 17min. 45sec. / 2023 / Hong Kong
Michelle's research on books looted during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong extended to the historical research and on-site investigation of the Taiwan Governor's Office Library and its temporary office (now the Qingshuiyan Patriarch Temple in Menga) during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. The plan focuses on the different elements of the library: books, architecture and readers, exploring the clues left by the three in historical time and space, and outlining an understandable path in historical materials.
The artist's identity as a traveler started with an alternative observation of the historical scene in the city, including documenting and exploring the circulation places of ancient books during the war, and looking for the personal meaning of this history from the specificity of the colonial library. Between real space and fictional space, it contains compressed knowledge and culture.
≪The Exceptional State of History≫
Mao Yo Wen / digital / 25min. 7sec. / 2023 / Taiwan
Memory, history, and nature - they are a kind of "difficult to thoroughly comprehend" existence.
"The Exception of History" originated from my personal visit to the legendary pyramid on Qixing Mountain(七星山) in Taipei, Taiwan where I was born and raised. This work attempts to begin with the (textual) perusing of the visual, presenting the video record as a non-systematic database. Additionally, the narrative of the video is weakened by extracting the narration and subtitles that contribute to the construction of the narrative. The contents of the subtitles, along with the memories, events, and documentary materials accumulated during the fieldwork, as well as the story content from the compiled text (Nouvelle), are transformed into various video symbols. These symbols are then assembled in a haphazard manner on the screen, resembling floating files within the video. Thus, it shapes a kind of "difficult-to-read-through" exceptional state.
≪Around the World 2023≫
Zhao Ruo Tong / digital / 11min. / 2024 / Taiwan
"Around the World" is a collective community building in Taipei. The entire community is an inwardly closed round system. Two texts are interspersed in the work. One is the novel "Around the World in 80 Days" published in 1873, which describes the protagonist's amazing adventure of traveling around the world in 80 days; the other is "Around the World in 72 Days" written by New York journalist Nellie Bly in 1889, which imitated the travel route in the above-mentioned novel. The distance between places gradually shortens in the sense of time. When such a journey is transplanted and placed in the "Around the World" community built in 1995, the distance seems to disappear completely. The residents move physically in the same community, but their consciousness is traveling to distant places every day. Traveling around the world has become their daily practice.
≪Memory Trek≫
The writing of history is constructed from material history. With the advancement of technology, the way memory is preserved has changed. The archive information that can be completely preserved is increasing day by day, with various forms. Materials and phenomena have been transformed from the analog world into digital technology objects. However, standing in the The huge problem we are facing now is how to avoid being suppressed by the huge ocean of archives and how to create a path from the past to the future through perceptual imagination and the establishment of relationships.
Faced with a large amount of historical documents and archives, two artists, Michelle Lee Ho Wing and Mao Yo Wen, created completely different narrative works. Michelle's work "Bookmark the Landmark" uses the "Governor-General's Mansion Library" during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan as a starting point. Through the identity of a "tourist", she travels through ancient and modern documents, archives, and architectural spaces to piece together a narrative logic that belongs to the artist. Mao's work "The Exceptional State of History" starts from the legend of Taipei's Qixing Mountain. To describe the narrative state of "history is difficult to read thoroughly", in the face of endless "exceptional events" and narratives outside of material history, how can we find a correct path to reach the future; in the end, ZHAO RUO TONG's works directly respond to the accelerating modern world. "Around the World 2023" uses "Around the World" as a unit of measurement to measure the development of human technology in three periods of time and space. For The world accelerated by capital asks, "Can't we travel around the world in less time?”
Peng Tsai hsun
Waley Art is an alternative space consisting of curators and artists, founded by Peng Tsai hsun, Chang Chih Chung, and Chou Ming Yi. Located in Galaya in the south Wan Hua District, Taipei City, Waley Art includes five storeys above ground and one basement floor. Since established in August 2014, Waley Art has been dedicated to visual art while supporting interdisciplinary projects. Along with the team members of curators and a team dedicated to community education programs, Waley Art uses art as a means of community-based artistic interaction, matchmake, and work with artists and community empowerment groups on art projects in the hope of discussing local issues in a different way and stimulating a productive dialogue between artists and the residents in both the old town and the communities.
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