musquiquinews: _EXHIBITION : BETWEEN EARTH AND THE SKY

Taipei Fine Arts Museum

No.181, Sec. 3, Zhongshan N. Rd.

Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City 10461

Taiwan,R.O.C.

Exhibition view of the work The Gesture II by Liang-Hsuan Chen and Musquiqui Chihying

Between Earth and the Sky:

The Spiritual State of Our Times

Opening Hours /
01. Aug - 18. October 2020
From Sun to Fri 09:30 - 17:30 Sat 09:30 - 20:30

Curator/

Jo Hsiao, Yi-Wei Keng

Artist/

Baboo

FAMEME

Su-Yuan Wu, Slow Geng (Motif Design)

Chen-Wei Lee

James Ming-Hseuh Lee

Ching-Yueh Roan

Hui-Chih Hsu

Chia-Ying Chang

Chih-Chung Chang

Liang-Hsuan Chen, Musquiqui Chihying

Clockwork Noses

Resident Island Dance Theatre

Between Earth and the Sky: The Spiritual State of Our Times seeks to embody the active nature of a live exhibition. Dialogue is the very foundation of each work in this exhibition. The artists and the curator cross-examine one another, for the purpose of sparking debate. As much as possible, there is no fixed framework or pre-established goal. Each work expresses an assembly of many meanings. Here, dialogue, collaboration and process take place.

The final results are, on the one hand, “exhibited works,” but on the other hand, they begin to carry out the mission of cross-referencing: The works serve as messages of the medium, directly interacting with visitors. And through visitors, who form a second level of the medium, a transformative channel in message transmission is formed, allowing viewers and participants to fully throw themselves into the process of perception, and moving the medium (the work) to a new vantage point. The whole process is like challenging the works to battle. And in everything that takes shape within it, in all the forms expressed, and in the reversibility ultimately produced by these forms, their “active nature” is readily apparent...