「2017街大歡囍-當代X社區藝術節」
台北當代藝術館「街大歡囍」街區藝術節展覽專案,自2012年開始與中山雙連街區合作探討藝術與社區的互動關係。至今六年的現地實踐裡,當代館致力推廣的「無牆美術館」概念已然紮根於巷弄之間,吸引了許多文化產業與創意工作者的進駐,同時也改變了許多在地居民的生活型態,開啟了社區生活質變的閘門。而當整個聚落開始邁向一個新的未來之際,藝術計畫在此刻的任務應是促進社會轉變的活力並且留住那些過往文化的星核,同步推移著動態轉換的時空環境,同時企圖捕捉那些彷彿飄忽而又恆定的閃爍。
這樣「動態平衡」的狀態裡,在矛盾的拉扯下,時間軸向概念的社區中,人們的日常生活捕捉了一幕幕瞬間穩定的時空切面,而這些一個個連續的時空切面組合成彷彿視覺暫留般的動態景象,這就是社區的歷史。藝術計畫的進駐有如蝴蝶效應般對動態的平衡產生了本質上的擾動,然而這些帶來擾動的藝術作品,則希望藉由自身所引發的漣漪造成既定架構鬆動的機會,進一步探討社區環境中原有秩序解構再重新建構的進程變化。
檢視六年來的歷程,這一次我們重新轉向,邀請八組藝術家以當代館建築為地緣中心向外輻射發散的街廓空間為研究與合作對象,並以當代館與社區間長期合作建立的互信與互動關係為基礎,將當代藝術所關注的當代社會現象凝縮至人們最直接身體能感觸到的社區空間尺度裡,以人們的日常生活為基質進行合作試驗與現地實踐,交融彼此的能量創造出一系列與社區裡人事物互動激盪的創作。
秋天陽光依舊輝煌的日子裏,在巷弄裡穿梭尋找作品,交融了在地人的記憶與旅人的微小驚喜,型塑成一件件藝術如日常。城市變幻不息,總有些彷彿恆常固著的默默的付出著,這些人,這些故事,與巷弄穿梭交織成為秋天徐徐散落俯拾即是的風景,慢慢的鋪展開來。
2017 Street Fun, Fun Street-MoCA X Community Art Festival
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei began collaborating with the people from the Zhongshan and Shuanglian neighborhood in 2012, forming an interactive relationship with the community through art. Throughout these six years of on-site implementations, MoCA’s dedication in advocating a “wall-less art museum” has clearly taken root in the area’s streets and alleyways. Many talents working in the creative cultural industry have moved into the area, with changes also observed in the lifestyle of the local residents and qualitative changes made possible for the community as whole. As the entire cluster of community is moving towards a new future, the art project serves to facilitate the energy that is propelling the changes, while also preserving the essence of past cultures. It simultaneously pushes forward spatial and temporal shifts and also seeks to capture fleeting yet eternal sparkling glimmers.
Under such state of dynamic equilibrium, through the push-and-pull, scenes of stabilized segments of space-time are captured from people’s everyday activities in the community, and these extended segments seem to be moving landscapes lingering from residual visual effects, giving shape the community’s history. The art project evokes butterfly effects, prompting essential commotions in the dynamic balance. Through the ripples stirred in the existing structure, these artworks sparking the commotions seek to further examine the process of change observed with the deconstruction and reconstruction of the community’s former order.
Looking back at the past six years, we are making a new turn this time and have invited eight sets of artists to study and do collaborative work in the area surrounding MoCA, Taipei, radiating outwards with the museum acting as the geographical center. Furthermore, using the mutual trust and relationships that the museum has established through our years of working with our neighboring community, the artists are invited to condense contemporary art’s social focus into the community, inciting direct physical contact with the people, engaging in collaborative experiments and on-site practices based on those people’s everyday lifestyles. The aim is to create a series of artworks by blending together each other’s energies and through interacting with the community’s people, occurrences, and things.
As the autumn sun still shines gloriously, stroll through the area’s alleys and byways to find these artworks, with communal memories of the local people blended with small delights offered to the visitors, as these artworks fit in perfectly into our everyday lives. Although the city continues to shift and change, there are always certain constant values that never seem to waver with steady contributions extended, enduringly. Those people, those stories dwell on the streets of this community and have come to form a landscape in this autumn season that holds a vitality that is slowly trickling outwards.