The title Phantasmapolis is a newly coined Greek word comprising “phantasma” (phantom) and “polis” (city-state) inspired by Phantasmagoria, an English sci-fi novel by architect Wang Dahong. Treating “Asian futurisms” as its main theme, the 2021 Asian Art Biennial “Phantasmapolis” seeks to review Asia’s past and present from the perspective of science fiction.
- -The 8 edition of the Asian Art Biennial hosted by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) invites Independent curator Nobuo Takamori (Taiwan) as the chief curator with a transnational curatorial team that also includes curators Tessa Maria Guazon (Philippines), Anushka Rajendran (India), Ho Yu-Kuan (Taiwan), and curator and art historian Thanavi Chotpradit (Thailand).
-Phantas.ma/polis, is the new location for the video art programme of the biennial, “Looking Back to the Future”. Using the time-based annotation, timeline views and edit features of Pad.ma, Phantas.ma/polis showcases the participating artists’ videos along with extended commentaries by the curator, artists and critics. Over the duration of the biennial, Phantas.ma/polis will evolve to bring the artworks in conversation with each other through both formal and interpretative recombinations of the featured works.
+The title Phantasmapolis is a newly coined Greek word comprising “phantasma” (phantom) and “polis” (city-state) inspired by Phantasmagoria, an English sci-fi novel by architect Wang Dahong. Treating “Asian futurisms” as its main theme, the 2021 Asian Art Biennial “Phantasmapolis” seeks to review Asia’s past and present from the perspective of science fiction.
+Curated by Anushka Rajendran, “Phantasmapolis: Looking back to the future” considers alterities and futurisms whose traces endure in our present—often inherited from the past—that were denied existence, or threatened by various dominant apparatuses of power. A series of moving image works articulate their concerns in the grammatical premise determined by the future-past tense, excavating the cyclical nature of time and latencies residing in the interstices of time as experienced in the contemporary.
The artworks present in this exhibition, even as they maintain scepticism towards techno-fetishistic, development-philic, heteronormative, non-inclusive paradigms for the future, propelled in the interest of capital and by the anaemic premise inscribed by the idea of progress, they do not deny the possibility of reorienting civilizational creativity and resilience towards reconsiderations.
@@ -28,12 +26,9 @@展覽標題「Phantasmapolis」一詞是新造的希臘字，分別由「Phantasma」（幻影、魅影）及「Polis」（城邦）所組構而成。「Phantasmapolis」一詞的靈感來自於建築家王大閎所撰寫的英文科幻小說《Phantasmagoria》（中譯《幻城》）。2021亞洲藝術雙年展「未至之城」嘗試以「亞洲未來主義」作為主軸，透過科幻文學視角重新省視亞洲的過去與當下。
- -第八屆2021亞洲藝術雙年展將以「Phantasmapolis未至之城」為題，由臺灣獨立策展人高森信男擔綱本次展覽總策劃，邀請菲律賓策展人泰莎．瑪莉亞．奎松（Tessa Maria Guazon）、印度策展人安努舒卡．拉堅德蘭（Anushka Rajendran）、臺灣策展人侯昱寬與泰國策展人暨藝術史學者唐娜維．恰卜瑞蒂（Thanavi Chotpradit）組成多國跨域的策展團隊。
-Phantas.ma/polis 為本屆亞洲藝術雙年展的錄像藝術單元「回望未來」（Looking Back to the Future）的專屬網站，其時基注釋、時間軸、剪輯等特色，於線上呈現參展藝術家的錄像作品，並搭配策展人、藝術家、藝評家的深度評論和活潑精彩的每日節目規畫。雙年展期間，Phantas.ma/polis 將會持續演化，藉由將展出作品在形式上和詮釋面上的重新組合，讓作品間產生對話。
- + +展覽標題「Phantasmapolis」一詞是新造的希臘字，分別由「Phantasma」（幻影、魅影）及「Polis」（城邦）所組構而成。「Phantasmapolis」一詞的靈感來自於建築家王大閎所撰寫的英文科幻小說《Phantasmagoria》（中譯《幻城》）。2021亞洲藝術雙年展「未至之城」嘗試以「亞洲未來主義」作為主軸，透過科幻文學視角重新省視亞洲的過去與當下。
錄像計畫「未至之城：回望未來」由安努舒卡．拉堅德蘭策展，該計劃想像各種被主流勢力所阻擋、威脅的未來景觀，而許多的「未來」在當前世界裡已出現蛛絲馬跡。展覽中一系列的動態影像以「未來過去式」探索各種議題，深掘當代時間感知的循環特性，以及時間間隙當中的潛在可能。
@@ -119,10 +114,10 @@Nobuo Takamori, Karen Menezes, Ho Yu-Kuan, Ye Renyu and Liao Chia-Cheng.
+Nobuo Takamori, Ho Yu-Kuan, Ye Renyu and Liao Chia-Cheng, Karen Menezes.
高森信男、Karen Menezes（凱倫・孟納茲）、侯昱寬、葉人瑜與廖嘉誠
+高森信男、侯昱寬、葉人瑜與廖嘉誠、Karen Menezes
Project "Phantas.ma/polis" is organized by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, supervised by the Ministry of Culture, and is co-organized by the Cultural Taiwan Foundation and in partnership with SEA Plateau.
+The video art programme is organized by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, supervised by the Ministry of Culture, and is co-organized by the Cultural Taiwan Foundation and in partnership with SEA Plateau.
本計畫由國立臺灣美術館策劃，文化部指導、財團法人文化臺灣基金會支持、SEA plateaus協力。