If You Can’t Sing, I Do not Want to be Part of Your Revolution
2013.06.18～2013.06.30
09:00 - 17:00
Venue:1 1/2 exhibition room If You Can’t Sing, I Do not Want to be Part of Your Revolution In today’s art‘s relation to society, revolution becomes a depleted concept. No wonder politics of art today has to be always already expressed in an alternative way, a very different discursive praxis from the previous era. The more political the art work overtly claims, the less disputable it becomes. Just because it is in service of a popularists’ ethics, especially for those works emphasize on participation in the name of democracy, the emancipation is indeed a limited option. The literal meaning of Karaoke is a "no man’s band," which signifies a pre-recording music that can be played to sing along with. No longer is a grandiose stage needed to perform on, but everywhere, a perfect metaphor for Asian modernity where its locality is dispersed. Everyone can be a star for a brief moment, much as Warhol’s
15 minutes of fame.” In the interaction between songs, roles of spectators and actors keep changing, to blur the boundary where to draw the line for stage. In Karaoke, no one is a passive receiver, and everyone can be a star. Artist’s production on the social realm, always appear in an impulse for revolution,
if you don not sing” can be understood as a metaphor for the changing professionalism of visual artists who not only carry an interdisciplinary approaches but glides between the high and the low. Moreover, the reproducibility of mechanical Karaoke is a request for the open work made possible in the format of exhibition, in marking the territory which is outside the genre of participatory art, begets a social dialogues which in turn, reworking relations for the old couple, art and revolution. Artists:Wu Shu-an, I Hsuen Chen, Yu Zheng-da, Ying Wei Min, Chang Pohan Exhibition producer: Luis Bai
15 minutes of fame.” In the interaction between songs, roles of spectators and actors keep changing, to blur the boundary where to draw the line for stage. In Karaoke, no one is a passive receiver, and everyone can be a star. Artist’s production on the social realm, always appear in an impulse for revolution,
if you don not sing” can be understood as a metaphor for the changing professionalism of visual artists who not only carry an interdisciplinary approaches but glides between the high and the low. Moreover, the reproducibility of mechanical Karaoke is a request for the open work made possible in the format of exhibition, in marking the territory which is outside the genre of participatory art, begets a social dialogues which in turn, reworking relations for the old couple, art and revolution. Artists:Wu Shu-an, I Hsuen Chen, Yu Zheng-da, Ying Wei Min, Chang Pohan Exhibition producer: Luis Bai
Venue:1 1/2 exhibition room If You Can’t Sing, I Do not Want to be Part of Your Revolution In today’s art‘s relation to society, revolution becomes a depleted concept. No wonder politics of art today has to be always already expressed in an alternative way, a very different discursive praxis from the previous era. The more political the art work overtly claims, the less disputable it becomes. Just because it is in service of a popularists’ ethics, especially for those works emphasize on participation in the name of democracy, the emancipation is indeed a limited option. The literal meaning of Karaoke is a "no man’s band," which signifies a pre-recording music that can be played to sing along with. No longer is a grandiose stage needed to perform on, but everywhere, a perfect metaphor for Asian modernity where its locality is dispersed. Everyone can be a star for a brief moment, much as Warhol’s
15 minutes of fame.” In the interaction between songs, roles of spectators and actors keep changing, to blur the boundary where to draw the line for stage. In Karaoke, no one is a passive receiver, and everyone can be a star. Artist’s production on the social realm, always appear in an impulse for revolution,
if you don not sing” can be understood as a metaphor for the changing professionalism of visual artists who not only carry an interdisciplinary approaches but glides between the high and the low. Moreover, the reproducibility of mechanical Karaoke is a request for the open work made possible in the format of exhibition, in marking the territory which is outside the genre of participatory art, begets a social dialogues which in turn, reworking relations for the old couple, art and revolution. Artists:Wu Shu-an, I Hsuen Chen, Yu Zheng-da, Ying Wei Min, Chang Pohan Exhibition producer: Luis Bai
15 minutes of fame.” In the interaction between songs, roles of spectators and actors keep changing, to blur the boundary where to draw the line for stage. In Karaoke, no one is a passive receiver, and everyone can be a star. Artist’s production on the social realm, always appear in an impulse for revolution,
if you don not sing” can be understood as a metaphor for the changing professionalism of visual artists who not only carry an interdisciplinary approaches but glides between the high and the low. Moreover, the reproducibility of mechanical Karaoke is a request for the open work made possible in the format of exhibition, in marking the territory which is outside the genre of participatory art, begets a social dialogues which in turn, reworking relations for the old couple, art and revolution. Artists:Wu Shu-an, I Hsuen Chen, Yu Zheng-da, Ying Wei Min, Chang Pohan Exhibition producer: Luis Bai
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