(本文轉載自Tale of two Taiwan cities: 4 day contemporary art tour, Art Radar Asia)
Derive Art + Café Amarcord
Derive Art + Café Amarcord opened around four months ago and is located close to the NTMoFA. The space spreads across two stories, with a gallery on the first floor and a café on the second. Ming-Jiun Tsai, Exhibitions Curator, Administration Manager and one of four owners, told Art Radar that the space aims to bring both Taiwanese and foreign artists to Taichung audiences, featuring fresh contemporary art in all its manifestations, including performance, video and installation. Her ultimate goal is to open up the art scene in Taichung so those living in the city become more familiar with and accepting of conceptual art.
According to Tsai, the art space is working to create a space for the meeting of like minds to discuss art and collaborate on projects. She says,
"We see this place more like a salon than a cafe…. We want to have meetings, workshops, screenings, performances. Everything about music, literature, films…. It’s more like a meeting room, a sitting room…. We are hoping that we become the place where art people come and share."
In the gallery, Taiwanese artists Yen-Ting Tseng, also known as Kappa, and Tao Chiang were busy rehearsing the space’s next exhibition, an object theatre piece called And So She Left Herself for Herself. On our way out, Art Radar was lucky enough to catch the tail end of their rehearsal. Both artists work in theatre, Tseng with lighting design and Tao with sound design, but this was their first foray into art collaboration.
When asked about the process of working as a sound artist, Tao said he would usually come up with a firm concept before he found the sounds for it. However, for this collaborative piece, he began by trying to find sounds that he thought might work with the narrative that Tseng was simultaneously attempting to write with objects. Tseng explained that in object theatre, the objects are manipulated like puppets on strings, and while there is no visible character, there is definitely a character in the narrative.
Derive Art + Café Amarcord
D+A衍空間
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