Gihak ArtLab
Tamás Szvet｜Solar Eclipse Workshop
The workshop inspirited by the fact that Hualien has a special light and shadow conditions, due to its geographical position. For example an ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE will occur on the 21st of June when the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. This rare event in Taiwan will be only visible in the middle of the island, like in Hualien County. The ancestors were believed that the “Sky Dog” 天狗食日eats the Sun during the eclipse, therefore they used a drum to scare the dog. In the workshop we will build paper cameras to watch the phenomenon, and to scare the sky dog away.”
◇ Event Date: June 21, 2020 14:30
◇ Event Venue: By The Sea Hostel
◇ FB Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2742598389357704/
◇ FB Album: https://reurl.cc/WL0vD5
Tamás Szvet
Tamas Szvet [Hungary 1982] is a visual artist, lives and works in Taiwan, interested of perception, memory, and the invisible. He received a Ph.D. – Doctor of Liberal Arts – title from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest in 2018. His artistic research deals with the possibilities of expanding the human vision. He questions the way of seeing and he visualise the invisible ¬– such as the Immaterial Cultural Heritage – and creates site-specific works with the aim to generate interaction between different perceptions. He focuses on the engagement with places and communities, with the purpose to introduce different cultures, and juxtapose them with important contemporary issues.
◇ Artist website: www.szvettamas.com
◇ Residency Period: Jun 1 - Jun 30, 2020
