KUO I-CHEN
Through an array of creative forms such as installations, explosions, video and performance, the artist Kuo I-chen attempts simultaneously to convey his observations about his surroundings while exploring his own inner energy. His creative forms serve as a bridge between himself and the outside world, and as a means of achieving self awareness. Early works often transmitted a strong sense of disquiet, arising from uncertainty about his body and his external environment. Strong visual effects such as burning or exploding objects or spraying his installations with ink were used to extend his energy from the interior outward in what he calls a "spiritual explosion."
In his project Invade the TFAM (2004), Kuo uses the internal and external spaces and conditions of the museum as his media. The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is located close to the flight path of a busy domestic airport; every few minutes an airplane passes overhead. Inside the museum, however, visitors are barely aware of this. Both literally and spiritually, the interior of the museum is an independent realm, completely partitioned off from the outside world. But Kuo disrupts this by installing a sensor outside the museum to receive signals when the airplanes pass, and a projector in the lobby that casts the huge shadow of the airplane as if flying through the inside of the museum when triggered by the sensor. At the same time, a speaker system emits the low rumble of an airplane in flight. Under these circumstances, the independent space of the museum is constantly disturbed and invaded by its exterior reality, giving viewers a new understanding of the special conditions of the museum.-A.C
http://www.tad.org.tw/c02/c02/040/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/28/features/taifest.html
Born 1979 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan
Invade the TFAM , 2004
Video projection
Courtesy the artist
Video projection
Courtesy the artist
Through an array of creative forms such as installations, explosions, video and performance, the artist Kuo I-chen attempts simultaneously to convey his observations about his surroundings while exploring his own inner energy. His creative forms serve as a bridge between himself and the outside world, and as a means of achieving self awareness. Early works often transmitted a strong sense of disquiet, arising from uncertainty about his body and his external environment. Strong visual effects such as burning or exploding objects or spraying his installations with ink were used to extend his energy from the interior outward in what he calls a "spiritual explosion."
In his project Invade the TFAM (2004), Kuo uses the internal and external spaces and conditions of the museum as his media. The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is located close to the flight path of a busy domestic airport; every few minutes an airplane passes overhead. Inside the museum, however, visitors are barely aware of this. Both literally and spiritually, the interior of the museum is an independent realm, completely partitioned off from the outside world. But Kuo disrupts this by installing a sensor outside the museum to receive signals when the airplanes pass, and a projector in the lobby that casts the huge shadow of the airplane as if flying through the inside of the museum when triggered by the sensor. At the same time, a speaker system emits the low rumble of an airplane in flight. Under these circumstances, the independent space of the museum is constantly disturbed and invaded by its exterior reality, giving viewers a new understanding of the special conditions of the museum.-A.C
http://www.tad.org.tw/c02/c02/040/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/10/28/features/taifest.html