Session 7

IMMATERIAL PROJECT
January 10, 2012
OPENING: 6PM
Galerie BEX
12 Rue Jean Ferrandi, Paris Cedex 06

「IMMATERIAL PROJECT」這項展覽邀請了目前旅居巴黎的國際藝術家，作品包括四件攝影作品,ㄧ部影片和ㄧ件聲音裝置。開幕當天還有二件現場演出作品。這個展覽藝術家均以不同的形式語言來表達加深自我意識的探討。

瑞士籍藝術家 Anna-Sabina Zürrer 的作品「Portrait I&II 肖像 I&II 」將以影片紀錄方式來展出，藝術家使用她在古董市集找到的被遺棄的老照片，再通過藥水將老照片的影像內容消失，最終有如白色空照片再將呈現於展覽牆上。而觀看在牆上的白色空照片光線的反射似乎漫新影像的開發，這是一個很詩意的方法處理來表達記憶與遺忘。

瑞典籍藝術家 Kim Westerström 的作品「Everlasting, the same 永固，ㄧ樣」包括二件黑白攝影作品，第一件作品顯示一個雕塑形體的城堡立直於方型體上，而第二件作品中顯示一個已冷凍的雕塑形體的城堡再次被放入水中冰凍，這個冰塊被放置於地面上毛巾，看似慢慢融化去而顯露出形體。作品的畫面構圖充分呈現出時間逝去所帶來的痕跡，紀錄了時間的流動。

丹麥籍藝術家 Marie Jager 的作品「The Magic Mountain 魔術山」，作品的標題"魔山"是托馬斯曼發表於1924年的小說。Marie Jager 為此作品拍攝建設於1902年美國最古老的極樂公園-洛杉磯療養院。Marie Jager在此件作品試圖探討現代建築的早期的概念來以時間和空間的不斷穿插，以及現代建築早期的概念。這系列攝影作品的製作是經過暴露在陽光，雨水和空氣來反映藝術家置身於室內和室外空間的時代，引導到藝術家所嘗試表達的世界之中。

日籍藝術家 Atsunobu Kohira 的作品「Variations for graphite/ Icosahedron 石墨之變奏曲/ 正二十面體」將邀請觀眾參與這件作品展出，讓觀眾的聲音被展場麥克風吸收進去後，經過電子的轉化，將變成展場的表演素材。Atsunobu Kohira 的作品皆與聲音實驗有關，藉裝置將聲音視覺化，以企圖啓動哲學、美學、技術等多維的關照。

德籍藝術家 Antje Vowinckel 開幕現場表演。當天她將在畫廊架設自製樂器，包括鼓、節拍器、效果器等來作為聲音元素於現場表演。通常她的作品呈現方式，採用書面講話的片段，然後調換成曲式結構。

瑞士籍藝術家 Lukas Truniger 與台籍藝術家陳雪甄首次合作ㄧ場跨領域表演，將於開幕現場發表。這是一個跨界合作的藝術呈現，融合肢體表演、聲音裝置的藝術形式，藉由實體呈現的作品，更深一層次地探索肢體表演者裡身體的律動與音樂隱形於空間中的流動軌跡。

IDOLONSTUDIO is pleased to present "IMMATÉRIEL DE PROJET" curated by WANG Chun-Chi(TW). The opening reception scheduled for Tuesday, January 10 at 6pm and will include Sound and Physical Performance by Lukas Truniger(CH)+Vera Chen(TW) and music performance by Antje Vowinckel(DE) beginning at 7:30pm.

"IMMATÉRIEL DE PROJET": Hold conceptual dimensions: The invited artists tended to construction with varied materials and de-materialized media; though their art work was still precise, rich and intelligent. What was ultimately denoted by all the artworks was humanity- an individual's reflections upon themselves and the outside world.
The exhibition "IMMATÉRIEL DE PROJET" are brings together of Photographics / Visual and Sound Installation of "Variations for graphite/Icosahedron " by Atsunobu Kohira(JP), "Portrait I&II" by Anna-Sabina Zürrer(CH), "Everlasting the same" by Kim Westerström (SE) and "The Magic Mountain" by Marie Jager(DK).

Atsunobu Kohira Atsunobu Kohira is a Japanese artist lives and works in Paris. The work "Variations for graphite/Icosahedron" is perception and the raw materials on the earth, which contain all the works. (silver and salt-light and sound in the photography, phenomena of the soil, micro particles of Triadic compositions, and graphite of the new work.) His works more relationship is about the micro materials and universal dimension.

Anna-Sabina Zürrer Anna-Sabina Zürrer is a Swiss artist lives and works in Sachseln Obwalden currently residing in Paris. The artist uses photographs, which she found, and which, through a chemical process, disappear. The audience can watch the process of washing out the color on a video or directly during a live performance. In the end, the washed photographs, are mounted on the wall, but they refer to their origin. In parallel, a glass jar is displayed which contains the bleached out colors of the photographs. Through the reflection of the light in the jar or in the white and empty photographs at the wall, diffuse new pictures develops – a very poetic method dealing with remembering and forgetting.

Kim Westerström Kim Westerström is a Swedish artist based in Malmö currently residing in Berlin. In Kim Westerström ́s work the personal experience meets a conceptual approach. Melancholy meditations on man's predicament are presented with a special kind of humor. In his work memory and time are connected to various objects that we are surrounded by. The work "Everlasting, the same" (2011) consist of two black and white photos. In the work we see the photographic documentation of different sculptures made of frozen ink. The first picture shows a cast of the inside of a toy castle standing on a square of styrofoam. In the second picture the ice castle have been put in water and then frozen again. This iceblock have been left on a towel on the ground to melt. The black inside of the toy is turned insideout and the hard plastic material is converged into ice. The ice is melting, water is taking over and the object slowly dissapears.

Marie Jager Marie Jager is a Danish artist. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in 2004. She was selected to present work in the 2006 California Biennale. Her work has been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, London; Sculpture Center and Artists Space, New York; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; MAK Center, Los Angeles among others. Jager's practice is a combination of conceptual and contextual gestures exercised through film, photography, painting, collage and installation. The work title "The Magic Mountain" is from Thomas Mann's 1924 novel Der Zauberberg which takes place a century ago at Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. Jager's point of departure is the Barlow Respiratory Hospital, one of the oldest sanatorium in the United States built in 1902 in Elysian Park, Los Angeles. Focusing on the architecture and landscape of the institution, Jager's work examines the notions of interludes and interruptions in time and space, as well as the early concepts of modern architecture. The weathered works, exposed to the sun, rain and air, reflect this period where indoor and outdoor spaces were inverted, the private looked institutional and vice versa.

Antje Vowinckel Antje Vowinckel is a Berlin based composer, director and performer. In her compositions she is focused on "Prosodic Composition", based on the musicality of spoken word. She has been comissioned to do radio plays and sound compositions for a variety of public radio stations such as WDR, DeutschlandRadio, SWR, BR, NDR as well as for foreign stations and festivals (ZKM Karlsruhe, TESLA Berlin, Biennale Bonn, Prix Italia, Festival for Contemporary Music Alicante, Tina B, Prag, Shut up, Vienna, Goethe-Institut Lissabon). She was awarded with numerous awards and grants, e. g. Prix Europa and Karl-Sczuka-Föderpreis. Her works have been broadcastand and presented in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, USA. In recent years, she has also created live performances, installations and a video composition. A number of her works employ fragments of documentary speech which are then transposed into a musical structure. She uses instrumental and electronic instruments as well as every-day-life sounds which are interspersed between music and narration. In her performance "organ and objects" she plays an old Korg-Organ, percussion objects and objects in a vibrating speaker. Another organ performance is based on textes by Gertrude Stein.

Lukas Truniger Lukas Truniger was born in Zurich, studies in Germany and has a recidency in Paris at the moment. He is a musician, sounddesigner and an artistic programmer. In his work he is searching for new sounds in the environment as well as in the digital domain and he is engaging in the impact of sound in space. His tasks includes live music, installations and filmsound, so he is often working at the conjunction between sonic and visuall reception. He is also working on his own instruments.

Vera Chen Hsueh-Chen Vera Chen is an artist from Taiwan and currently residing in Paris. She is a theatre director, performer, and also film actress. She received MA degree of Contemporary Performance Making in Brunel University, UK. Her directing work is based on the physical theatre, involving film, multi-media interaction, and site-specific performance. In three consecutive years, she was selected into Young Star's New Version Showcase by National Theater, Taiwan, and won the Excellent Performance Award in 2009 and 2010. Her solo performance has been invited to to ur in Korea and Portugal.

Organized by Chun-chi, Wang

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