Artist-in-Residence Program_ Chen Chieh-jen: Political Art in Image Form

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The 16th NCCU Artist-in-Residence Program

Art on the Periphery, and the Periphery of Art -- Chen Chieh-jen’s residence at NCCU

【Artist-in-Residence Lecture Series】

 

Chen Chieh-jen: Political Art in Image Form

  • Date & Time: 26/04/2016 19:00-21:00
  • Venue: Art Hub, NCCU Art & Culture Center
  • Speaker: Sing Song-yong (Professor of Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art ,Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA)
 
This lecture discusses Chen Chieh-jen’s the single-channel video Flickering Lightand the development of its dynamic use of images begun in the 1983 work “Dysfunction No. 3. These works explored questions of “aftermaths” or “fallout” after a work of performance art; his more recent works Lingchi-Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002) and Realm of Reverberations (2014) which were produced over twenty years after “Dysfunction No. 3”play with these themes of “fallout” and the continuity of history. Chen Chieh-jen’s political art films not only exhibit visual resistance to Cold War era culture and neo-liberalism, but on a broader scale to the explore the possibilities of historical memory and the thinking power of images.
   

 

 

Sing Song-yong｜
Sing Song-yong received his PhD from the School of Literature, Language and Performing Arts, University Paris 10, France and is currently professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Animation and Film Art at Tainan National University of the Arts. He is current chief editor of the magazine “ACT Art Critique of Taiwan” and nominator of the 14th Taishin Art Awards. He recently curated the exhibits “REWIND_ Video Art in Taiwan 1983-1999” (2015) and “The Eclipse of Documentary: The Transdisciplinary Intersection of Images”, a program of the 8th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2012). His primary research focus is aesthetic theory of contemporary Chinese language films, film theory, contemporary art, and contemporary French art and film theory. His books include: “Tsai Ming-liang: From Cinema to Contemporary/Art” (2013) and “Projecting Tsai Ming-liang: Towards Transart Cinema”(2014).