Wu Shang-Yang was born in the city. During his residency in Zhixue, he experienced something different from his previous short trip. The residency program offers him a chance to stay at a place for a longer term without hasty schedules of sightseeing, so he brought his daily life in Taipei with him. However, compared with the city life, Shoufeng Township is rich in nature, ecology and also has a kind of wild sense. As time went by, Wu started to feel conflict and out of place. The development history of Zhixue includes a lot of "foreign", "residency" and "migration", such as the conflict between the Amis people and the Taroko people, the reclamation of Wu Quan and Kada Kinzaburo, and how Donghua University shifts to focus on both education and business purpose. The development indicates a sense of change and replacement in Zhixue. For Wu, his residency was also trivially intertwined with these evolution, and even appeared to be awkward to some degree.

 

This time, Wu’s project is divided into two parts. The work “Inbetweening No.9” is an installation of his sketch regarding nature and ecology around Zhixue. He incorporates the moiré pattern that can be seen throughout his artworks to let the materiality in the video collide with the materiality of the ready-made objects, reinterpreting the way of seeing and the landscape. The other work “Outsider” is a series of videos taken by Wu himself as an "outsider". The technical simplicity and directness are all because he imagines how his state of being an "outsider" stimulates the unfamiliarity and awkwardness between this place and himself.

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◇ Exhibition Date：Dec  6 - Dec 13, 2020 12:00-17:00

◇ Opening Talk：Dec 6, 2020 14:00-16:00

◇ Venue：Gihak ArtLab

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