Note: The curator, Huang Hsiang-Ning, set out to explore the contemporary mission and deformation of moving-image arts through the title "The Rebellion of Moving Image." The "rebellion" of moving image attempts to challenge the habitual logic of the operation of modern society with five artworks. However, with moving-image arts being prevalent in today's art, shall there exist rebellions of other media? Or, when "rebellion" has become a form of artistic rhetoric, how should an artist establish the politics of one's own commitment. The only sound artist, Wu Tsan-Cheng, reorganizing the history of spaces through the narrative of sounds, has been the oddity in this exhibition. In the times when the relations between sounds and images are receiving attention, the exhibition reminds us of the practice of "narrative as the deployment of sounds and images," an issue moving-image artists have to respond in this post-media era.
許家維, 台灣總督府工業研究所, 2017; photo courtesy of artist
Yael Bartana, Inferno, 2013; photo coutesy of Petzel Gallery, NY; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, & Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Issac Julien, Ten Thousands Waves; courtesy of Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro, London, & Metro Pictures, NY
John Akomfrah, Auto Da Fé, 2010; image courtesy of Lisson Gallery