2018 曼谷雙年展 Bangkok Biennale（泰國場）
多元成展亞洲交流-因性稱異:宗教 性別 藝術
DIVERSITY VIA NATURE: RELIGION, GENDER, OR, ART ?
Date：2018/08/25~2018/09/07
Place：Tentacles（泰國/曼谷）
Artist：
Baru Madiljin 巴魯.瑪迪霖(Taiwan)
Hou Chun-Ming 侯俊明(Taiwan）
Chen Han-Sheng 陳漢聲(Taiwan）
Liu Hsing-Yu 劉星佑(Taiwan)
Yu Cheng-Ta + Ming Wong 余政達(Taiwan)＋黃漢明(Singapore)
Xiang Yi Wong 黃向藝(Malaysia）
Dan Isomura 磯村暖(Japan）
Kongpob Areerat(Thailand）
Naraphat Sakarthornsap(Thailand）
Titapa Rongruangvanich(Thailand)
Place：Tentacles（泰國/曼谷）
Artist：
Baru Madiljin 巴魯.瑪迪霖(Taiwan)
Hou Chun-Ming 侯俊明(Taiwan）
Chen Han-Sheng 陳漢聲(Taiwan）
Liu Hsing-Yu 劉星佑(Taiwan)
Yu Cheng-Ta + Ming Wong 余政達(Taiwan)＋黃漢明(Singapore)
Xiang Yi Wong 黃向藝(Malaysia）
Dan Isomura 磯村暖(Japan）
Kongpob Areerat(Thailand）
Naraphat Sakarthornsap(Thailand）
Titapa Rongruangvanich(Thailand)
[press release]
The first bell ring for gay marriage in Asia is expected to toll in Taiwan after the Constitutional Court announced the judicial interpretation in 2017. Coexist Exhibition, as a curatorial team, sets out and upholds to deploy at least one exhibition every year since 2014 and ended the seventh exhibition in 2018. To respond to the diversified family structures issue, the visual artists who care about gender and marriage equality and authors who are willing to discuss gender politics are convened by us to hold an exhibition. Through art promotion, we are looking forward to seeing differential individuals.
This June, the exhibition ‘Non Politics / Non Violence’; we invited the artists, including Ou, Jing-Yun(Taiwan), Huang Chih-Cheng(Taiwan), and YeonJeong(Korea) to join us in 2018 Coexist LGBT Art Exhibition in Thailand. The eighth exhibition curated by Coexist, ‘Diversity Via Nature: Religion, Gender, or Art?’, surrounded by beliefs, genders, and even expression of biopolitics. We invited twelve artists: Hou Chun-Ming (Taiwan), Baru Madiljin(Taiwan), Yu Cheng-Ta(Taiwan)+Ming Wong(Singapore), Xiang Yi Wong(Malaysia), YeonJeong(Korea), Dan Isomura(Japan), Kongpob Areerat(Thailand), Naraphat Sakarthornsap(Thailand), Titapa Rongruangvanich(Thailand),Chen Han-Sheng (Taiwan), and Liou, Shing-You(Taiwan). We also stretch our exhibition types and activities to Bangkok Art Biennale, holding two sessions in Taipei and Bangkok in July, August and September.
The ‘Body Map’ project of Hou Chun-Ming began in 2014 and developed into the ‘Woman Island’. He asked for interviewees and conducted one-on-one interviews and graffiti, interweaved the images of the body and mind among respondents and artists through the self-story and secret disclosure, reflecting the steering process from Taiwan's period of martial law to the declaration and political mainstay to date.
Baru Madiljin from Paiwan village, as the dance director of Tjimur Dance Theatre, combines the culture and daily life of Paiwan. The exhibit reflects the dual dilemmas of ethnic and gender identity.
‘The Watermelon Sister’, a co-work from Yu Cheng-Ta(Taiwan)+Ming Wong(Singapore), demonstrates a witty gender gesture with traditional Huangmei opera in addition to paying tribute to Tsai Ming-Liang's ‘The Wayward Cloud’.
Dan Isomura from Japan pays attention to the post-internet phenomenon, and his work presents a broken ritual and fluidity of de-sexualisation. The elements in his works included Hinduism, Thai Buddhism and even Taiwanese folk beliefs.
Taking the style of the Dunhuang frescoes and Japanese manga, Xiang Yi Wong freezes the time at ‘fag hag’ instead of ‘erotic’ with a strong background in ink painting.
Kongpob Areerat and Naraphat Sakarthornsap are both competent in photography. From the documentary, Kongpob Areerat reflects the situation of Taiwanese and Southeast Asian transnational same-sex partners. Naraphat Sakarthornsap has a conversation with ’flower’ inquiring the story of body and reach to the sensitive Thai authorities.
Titapa Rongruangvanich depicts the intercourse of male and female ambiguously with faint light-transmissive glass.
Chen Han-Sheng raised the thoughts of picking up and transforming the abandoned God statues in the hometown by unexpectedly noticed the coincidence of the 'Lord Rabbit' in Beijing, China and the beliefs of the 'Tu'er Shen' in Taiwan.
Liou, Shing-You responds to the beliefs, ‘Heaven and Earth are the parents’, he perceived when he resident in Thailand and Hong Kong with video installation.
Opening and talks will be held on July 21st (Saturday) at 5:30 pm in Pon Ding, Taipei. We are honoured to have a discussion - Thai Buddhism and homosexuality - with Ven. Shine Waradhammo, a monk from Wat Khean Khet school, Pathum Thani, and Ven. Shih Chao-Hwei from Taiwan, sharing their perspective.
Religion and art are no longer such natural bedfellows, however, respecting differences as the commonality of these two is the rarest part, By believing and practising can we have a chance to see religion and art as essential identity in our life. The artists who participate in this exhibition are not ended up conveying their religious and sexual orientation. They transform and display the part of being ignored or even denied by society. The existence is the beginning of diversity, and only respect the presence can we have an opportunity to accommodate the variation.
The first bell ring for gay marriage in Asia is expected to toll in Taiwan after the Constitutional Court announced the judicial interpretation in 2017. Coexist Exhibition, as a curatorial team, sets out and upholds to deploy at least one exhibition every year since 2014 and ended the seventh exhibition in 2018. To respond to the diversified family structures issue, the visual artists who care about gender and marriage equality and authors who are willing to discuss gender politics are convened by us to hold an exhibition. Through art promotion, we are looking forward to seeing differential individuals.
This June, the exhibition ‘Non Politics / Non Violence’; we invited the artists, including Ou, Jing-Yun(Taiwan), Huang Chih-Cheng(Taiwan), and YeonJeong(Korea) to join us in 2018 Coexist LGBT Art Exhibition in Thailand. The eighth exhibition curated by Coexist, ‘Diversity Via Nature: Religion, Gender, or Art?’, surrounded by beliefs, genders, and even expression of biopolitics. We invited twelve artists: Hou Chun-Ming (Taiwan), Baru Madiljin(Taiwan), Yu Cheng-Ta(Taiwan)+Ming Wong(Singapore), Xiang Yi Wong(Malaysia), YeonJeong(Korea), Dan Isomura(Japan), Kongpob Areerat(Thailand), Naraphat Sakarthornsap(Thailand), Titapa Rongruangvanich(Thailand),Chen Han-Sheng (Taiwan), and Liou, Shing-You(Taiwan). We also stretch our exhibition types and activities to Bangkok Art Biennale, holding two sessions in Taipei and Bangkok in July, August and September.
The ‘Body Map’ project of Hou Chun-Ming began in 2014 and developed into the ‘Woman Island’. He asked for interviewees and conducted one-on-one interviews and graffiti, interweaved the images of the body and mind among respondents and artists through the self-story and secret disclosure, reflecting the steering process from Taiwan's period of martial law to the declaration and political mainstay to date.
Baru Madiljin from Paiwan village, as the dance director of Tjimur Dance Theatre, combines the culture and daily life of Paiwan. The exhibit reflects the dual dilemmas of ethnic and gender identity.
‘The Watermelon Sister’, a co-work from Yu Cheng-Ta(Taiwan)+Ming Wong(Singapore), demonstrates a witty gender gesture with traditional Huangmei opera in addition to paying tribute to Tsai Ming-Liang's ‘The Wayward Cloud’.
Dan Isomura from Japan pays attention to the post-internet phenomenon, and his work presents a broken ritual and fluidity of de-sexualisation. The elements in his works included Hinduism, Thai Buddhism and even Taiwanese folk beliefs.
Taking the style of the Dunhuang frescoes and Japanese manga, Xiang Yi Wong freezes the time at ‘fag hag’ instead of ‘erotic’ with a strong background in ink painting.
Kongpob Areerat and Naraphat Sakarthornsap are both competent in photography. From the documentary, Kongpob Areerat reflects the situation of Taiwanese and Southeast Asian transnational same-sex partners. Naraphat Sakarthornsap has a conversation with ’flower’ inquiring the story of body and reach to the sensitive Thai authorities.
Titapa Rongruangvanich depicts the intercourse of male and female ambiguously with faint light-transmissive glass.
Chen Han-Sheng raised the thoughts of picking up and transforming the abandoned God statues in the hometown by unexpectedly noticed the coincidence of the 'Lord Rabbit' in Beijing, China and the beliefs of the 'Tu'er Shen' in Taiwan.
Liou, Shing-You responds to the beliefs, ‘Heaven and Earth are the parents’, he perceived when he resident in Thailand and Hong Kong with video installation.
Opening and talks will be held on July 21st (Saturday) at 5:30 pm in Pon Ding, Taipei. We are honoured to have a discussion - Thai Buddhism and homosexuality - with Ven. Shine Waradhammo, a monk from Wat Khean Khet school, Pathum Thani, and Ven. Shih Chao-Hwei from Taiwan, sharing their perspective.
Religion and art are no longer such natural bedfellows, however, respecting differences as the commonality of these two is the rarest part, By believing and practising can we have a chance to see religion and art as essential identity in our life. The artists who participate in this exhibition are not ended up conveying their religious and sexual orientation. They transform and display the part of being ignored or even denied by society. The existence is the beginning of diversity, and only respect the presence can we have an opportunity to accommodate the variation.
คงเป็นเรื่องที่หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้เมื่อเรากล่าวถึงความมีเหตุผลและความเป็นกลาง อย่างไรก็ตาม สถานะของวลีที่ว่า “ไม่มีศาสนาแต่กลัวผี” ก็เผยให้เห็นถึงความเป็นจริงจริงของมนุษย์ ตั้งข้อสงสัยกัยความเป็นนิรันดร์ และไม่เต็มในจะที่จะถูกทอดทิ้งในบางครั้ง
ศาสนากับศิลปะนั้นมีความแตกต่างกัน แต่สิ่งที่ทั้งสองมีร่วมกันคือความปราถนาในเสรีภาพ การโอบกอด “ข้อเท็จจริง” ไปพร้อมๆกับ “เรื่องไร้สาระ” ที่ไม่สามารถมีใครเข้าใจได้ ศิลปินที่เข้าร่วมนิทรรศการในครั้งนี้ ไม่ได้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อถ่ายทอดความเชื่อทางศาสนาของพวกเขา แต่เลือกที่จะถ่ายทอดสิ่งที่พวกเขาพบเห็นจากวัฒนธรรมของศาสนาในปัจจุบันออกมาให้ผู้ชมสัมผัสแทน นิทรรศการนี้จึงเป็นการตั้งคำถามว่า “ข้อเท็จจริง” ที่ว่านี้มักถูกอ้างอิงด้วยความมีเหตุผลและวิทยาศาสตร์ใช่ไหม? และ “ความไร้สาระ” มักจะถูกนำไปไปอิงกับเรื่องของความรู้สึกและศิลปะหรือเปล่า? ซึ่งเป็นการพยายามของศิลปินที่จะเน้นย้ำถึงการมีอยู่ของความหลากหลายผ่านงานศิลปะของพวกเขา
ศาสนากับศิลปะนั้นมีความแตกต่างกัน แต่สิ่งที่ทั้งสองมีร่วมกันคือความปราถนาในเสรีภาพ การโอบกอด “ข้อเท็จจริง” ไปพร้อมๆกับ “เรื่องไร้สาระ” ที่ไม่สามารถมีใครเข้าใจได้ ศิลปินที่เข้าร่วมนิทรรศการในครั้งนี้ ไม่ได้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อถ่ายทอดความเชื่อทางศาสนาของพวกเขา แต่เลือกที่จะถ่ายทอดสิ่งที่พวกเขาพบเห็นจากวัฒนธรรมของศาสนาในปัจจุบันออกมาให้ผู้ชมสัมผัสแทน นิทรรศการนี้จึงเป็นการตั้งคำถามว่า “ข้อเท็จจริง” ที่ว่านี้มักถูกอ้างอิงด้วยความมีเหตุผลและวิทยาศาสตร์ใช่ไหม? และ “ความไร้สาระ” มักจะถูกนำไปไปอิงกับเรื่องของความรู้สึกและศิลปะหรือเปล่า? ซึ่งเป็นการพยายามของศิลปินที่จะเน้นย้ำถึงการมีอยู่ของความหลากหลายผ่านงานศิลปะของพวกเขา
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