Imagining
Crisis-Contemporary Aesthetics of Memento Mori
Air
crash, gas explosion, international conflicts are still vivid in our
mind; global warming exposes the potential crisis of human living
condition gradually. These catastrophic images are not movie scenes,
but
our reality lurked with ubiquitous crises. We thought we could
control and prevent crises by means of technology; in fact, such
dangerous daily reality is the outcome of which human beings always
pursue the advanced technology and neglect the negative effects.The
more civilized the world is, the more complicated the human soul
becomes. What the progress of technology and the richness of material
life create is not necessary a life full of happiness. Driven by the
‘Death Instinct’,
human beings confront all kind of crisis and threats, imaging the
death subconsciously. This imagination is an expression of creativity
for an artist, as well as a contemporary memento mori. It
deconstructs the given aesthetics. The International Creative
Exhibition 'Imagining Crisis' will be presented at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Taipei from September 15 till October 14, 2014. This
video project has toured around the contemporary art centers in
Poland, Serbia an Bulgaria. The curator Yunnia Yang invited 10
artists, 11 videos from Asia, Europe and Latin America to join this
project, including experimental films, videodances, stop motions,
etc. 'Imagining Crisis' departs from the anxieties of the artists
about the artistic creation and the art world, our society twisting
the essence of an individual very much through all kinds of mass
media (including religion), and the nature pouncing on human beings
for their long-term destruction. From the concrete perceptible crisis
to the invisible, metaphysical, imaginative crisis, these creative
artists embody the eccentric aesthetics of imagining the death.
【Exhibition
Information】
‘Imagining
Crisis’
–
International Creative Video Exhibition
Curator:
Yunnia Yang (Taiwan)
Participating
Artists:
Albert
Merino(Spain) /Shahar Marcus (Israel)/Rossina
Bossio(Columbia)/Ernesto Pombo&Chimene Costa(Argentina)/Kimmo
Alakunnas(Finland)/Hannes Vartiainen &Pekka
Veikkolainen(Finland)/Mihai Grecu(Romania)&Thibault
Gleize(France)/Masahiro Tsutani(Japan)/Oliver
Pietsch(Germany)/Provmyza(Galina Myznikova/ Sergey Provorov)(Russia)
International
Touring Schedule
1.Taiwan
Venue/
MOCA Taipei
Date/September
15 – October 14, 2014
2.
Poland
Venue/Kronika
Center for Contemporary Arts, Bytom
Date/
July 11-August 23, 2014
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3.
Serbia
Venue/
Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade
Date/
July 31-August 23, 2014
4.
Bulgaria
Venue/Vaska
Emanouilova Gallery ( Sofia City Art Gallery Branch), Sofia
Date/
May 21, 2014
