Gihak ArtLab
2021 Keynote Lecture Vol.1
Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creation
Hsu Chia-Wei is good at dealing with complex contexts using video narratives. Starting from focusing on "people" and "places," he connects heterogeneous cultures such as humans, organisms, and virtual networks through networking, exploring the historical scenes that are overlooked or neglected.
His works often contain cross-national, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary collaborations. For example, the "Huai Mo Village" project drew materials from the border between Thailand and Myanmar, and cooperated with the interested parties from the perspective of an outsider; and the five-channel video work "Black and White - Giant Panda" was commissioned and completed in collaboration with Japanese comic artists; the "Marshal Tie Jia" project even invited Marshal Tie Jia to participate in the process.
In addition to planning carefully in advance, these projects also require the artist's flexibility on responding to occasions, as well as the artist’s keen intuition and judgement, in order to accurately present the essence of the complex historical context and materials. In this lecture, Hsu Chia-Wei will share his creative practice, talk about the entire process from inspiration to execution, and in-depth decrypt the practical aspects of visual art creation, allowing the audience to get a glimpse of the behind the scenes of artistic creation, and learn more about how he develops and creates new narratives and actions with each project.
◇ Event Date: April 24, 2021 15:00-17:00
◇ Event Venue: By The Sea Hostel
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Hsu Chia-Wei
Hsu Chia-Wei (Taiwan) is an artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work merges the language of contemporary art and film unearthing the complex production mechanisms that are behind the process of image-creation. Through his practice, Hsu weaves together connections between humans, materials, and places that have been overlooked or omitted from conventional historical narratives. Hsu has had solo exhibitions at Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan (2019), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2018), Industrial Research Institute of Taiwan Governor-General’s Office at Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2017), Huai Mo Village at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2016), and Position 2 at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2015). He has participated in exhibitions Subzoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2020), Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019), Biennial at Shanghai, Gwangju, Busan and Sydney (2018), 2 or 3 Tigers at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2017), 2016 TAIPEI BIENNIAL - Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2016), HUGO BOSS ASIA ART at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2013), and The 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia: This is not a Taiwan Pavilion at Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (2013). He is also the curator of Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2018), THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2012), and co-curate The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea: Asian Art Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2019) with Singapore artist, Ho Tzu Nyen.
