BOOCHOA

With technology of the Internet and smart phones becoming closely integrated with daily life, our democratic life today is headed into a direction with contradicting and parallel developments of (diverse) echo chambers and (closed) control systems; socialization, business, management, and science, now have far greater importance and influences than humanities people used to adhere to as standards in the past. These giant changes have gradually given rise to all kinds of cognitive confusions and consciousness crisis, severe ruptures of social relation and cognition, conflicts between opposing values, serious imbalance in distribution of resources, and destruction of the environment on Earth, in the first decade of the 21st century. Undoubtedly, explorations and discussions on issues such as occupation, Anthropocene, animism, community network, return to Earth, and gender friendliness, have quickly become the main concerns of all people, and we do need reconstruction of relationships and knowledge.

Based on this kind of changes in contextual environment, art museums and exhibitions seem to have to face the demands of this age too. This is a grave task, for the reconstruction of knowledge and relationships requires full qualitative change of sensations in order to break free from various layered mechanisms and repetitions. This, undoubtedly, is the theme of “body without organs”—that is, breaking away from the structured cognition accumulated over centuries; only “art” is the existing and the most direct “method.” This project, “BOOCHOA,” originated from the interactions between the three curators, allowing three separate projects to launch from three different aspects the reform of “sensation;” “BOOCHOA” directly resorts to “voice” that is closely related to body, and attempts to challenge our existing sensations through alternative courses, performance derivatives, and mutant parties, and experiment with the relationship between art museums and audience, launching a journey of “time-space” that probes deep into the inner world: getting rid of all the organs that resemble timing devices and routine routes.