Unfortunately with 3,000 people visiting the show on the first day, this exhibit was overwhelmed.
Ku Shih-yung's (顧世勇) Red Calling in Deep Blue is another interactive multimedia installation. It features a colorful scene with a woman making a phone call on her cell phone. As she talks, bubbles popping up reveal the cell phone number. You can call the number and the woman then morphs into a red jellyfish floating on the water. Ku hints at the transience of the media flooding the modern commercial world, in which everything seems to lose value and meaning so rapidly.
Local artists rarely use mechanical devices for art, making Alan Rath's Pair quite eye-catching. As an engineer turned digital artist, Rath calls his works electro-mechanical sculptures.
Locally active artists like Yao Jui-chung (姚瑞中) and Chen Long-bin (陳龍斌) have again brought huge projects to the show. Yao as usual plays with photographic images. Instead of his regular interests in historical and social topics, this time he talks about desire.
"Desire is a monster like the dragon," Yao says and what that results in shows in his photos as ambition or fear.
Chen, maintains his focus on knowledge and information. His new sculpture is much more stylized and spectacular than his previous works as he pushes his book sculpture idea further than ever before.
Art Notes:
What: The Gravity of the Immaterial (輕且重的震撼)
Where: Institute of Contemporary Arts (台北當代藝術館), 39, Chang-an W. Rd., Taipei (台北長安西路39號).
When: Until August 26th. Closed Monday
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