遊記導覽－阿川行為群2003-2019
Journey and Guide - Artrend Performance Group 2003-2019
展期：2019年8月9日（五）至8月25日（日）
地點：臺南市新營文化中心
策展人：邱俊達
執行單位：阿川行為群
主辦單位：臺南市政府文化局
開幕：8月11日（日） 14:00
現場行為表演：李嘉昇、宇中怡、林亮宇
講座：行為表演藝術的媒介性與城市閱讀
主持人：邱俊達
與談人：吳思鋒、葉子啓、李嘉昇、宇中怡、林亮宇
行為表演工作坊（8人以上開設）：
講師：葉子啓
工作坊時間：2019年8月23日、24日，13:30-16:30
學員發表：2019年8月25日 13:30
行為藝術是一種出自生活的藝術表演。它不像其他表演藝術如音樂，舞蹈或戲劇需要多年學習磨練才能上台表演，事實上，許多行為藝術家並非表演本科，也並非藝術本科出身，而且也無所謂上「台」這件事，它可以發生在我們生活的各個角落裡。也許正因為如此，行為藝術在21世紀廣受歡迎，而且由邊緣直逼中心，這可以由近兩屆威尼斯雙年展最高榮譽都頒給行為藝術得以窺見。
生活裡，我們常常有感而發，或抒情，或說理，或批判，或狂野，或具體，或抽象.....，習慣上我們以筆抒發，行為藝術只是將筆轉換成我們自身：以我們的身體，在一段設想好並付諸行動的過程中，抒發／表演所感。它是內觀也是分享，是日常也是藝術。行為藝術工作坊引領有興趣的民眾走一趟認識自己與他人，並在一段行動中分享自己的過程。
策展論述
「行為表演藝術」的發展，可以追溯到西方二十世紀中期藝術形式與觀念的轉換與擴張，一方面通過肉身作為「媒材」/「媒介」來與各種社會文化議題（種族、性別、階級等等）展開對話，另一方面，也藉此對形式主義主導的美學以及藝術商業市場展開抵抗。因著不同的文化脈絡與問題意識，這一藝種也衍生出多種名稱：行動藝術、偶發藝術、身體藝術、臨場藝術。時至今日，因著網路與數位技術的發達，行為表演藝術所關注的「身體」與「現場」形成了更為複雜的辯證，從而持續推進「當代行為」的觀念。
由葉子啓於2003年創立的「阿川行為群」迄今已15年，這一據地南部、以推動行為表演藝術發展為職志的藝文團體，銜接著亞洲的九〇年代行為藝術的革進發展而有其獨特地位，或是通過策劃大型行為藝術節促進國際交流，或是舉辦小品、練習曲性質的活動，以培力與推廣為職志來與地方藝文單位串連，都可見其積極性與能量。
本展以「遊記導覽」為題，意味著通過「遊記閱讀式的城市導覽」的概念，來進行阿川行為群十五年來的研究與展示。若把阿川舉辦過的這些活動，想像成是關於某個地點的遊記，而其中的篇章，則是藝術家通過「行為表演」來展開的書寫。遊記的閱讀，不同於官方所出版的城市或名勝風景的制式介紹，而是包含著各種主觀性的感受、細節的描摹、捕獲，以及通過文字、照片、影片來回應這個地點的記憶與評論。換言之，遊記的閱讀更能夠帶動人們的想像力、身體感以及對一個「場所」的多種層次與變遷的描繪。
這個第一階段的「遊記導覽」，希望能為觀眾帶來「行為表演藝術」的意涵、發展的理解，與此同時，也可以看見某種城市藝文發展的歷史，甚至在讀者心中種下「有朝一日也想去看看走走」、去追尋與追憶某種逝去的種子。
Date: 2019.08.09(Fri.) - 08.25日（Sun）
Opening & Performance: 08.11（Sun） 14:00
Lecture: The Medium of Performance Art and City Reading
WU Sih-Fong, YEH Tzu-Chi, LIN Liang-Yu, YU Chung- I, Jason J S LEE
Performance Workshop: 08.23, 24 13:30-16:30
Presentation: 08.25 13:30
Venue: Xinyin Cultural Center, Tainan
Organizer: Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government
Executive: ArTrend Performance Group
Curator: Yves Chun-Ta CHIU
Introduction
The development of Performance Art can be traced back to the transformation and expansion of art forms and concepts in the mid-twentieth century in the West. On the one hand, through the body as a "material" / "media" to initiate dialogue with various socio-cultural issues (ethnicity, gender, class, etc.), and on the other hand, it also began to resist the aesthetics and the commercial art market dominated by formalism. Due to different cultural contexts and problems, this kind of art has also come up with a variety of names: Action Art, Happening, Body Art, and Live Art. Today, due to the advancement of Internet and digital technology, “body” and “Live” as the focus of performance art have formed a more complicated dialectic, thus continuing to push on the concept of “contemporary performance.”
It has been fifteen years since the ArTrend Performance Group was founded by YEH Tzu-Chi in 2003. Based in the south of Taiwan, this is an art group that promotes the development of performance art as their aspiration. It follows the innovative development of Asian performance art in the 1990s into a unique position, or to promote international exchanges by initiating large-scale performance art festivals, or through organizing small exhibitions and exercises, in order to connect with the local arts and cultural unit by training and promotion as an aspiration. The enthusiasm and energy are highly visible.
This exhibition titled “Journey and Guide” signifies the research and display of the ArTrend Performance Group for the past fifteen years through the concept of “travel notes of city guide". If these activities organised by ArTrend are imagined as travel notes about a certain place, then the chapters are written by the artist through "performance art”. Unlike the introduction of a city or scenic spots published by the official, the reading of travel notes contains a variety of subjective feelings, descriptions of details, captures, and memories and comments in response to the place through texts, photos, and videos. In other words, the reading of travel notes can bring about people's imagination, body’s feeling and depiction of multiple levels and changes towards a "place".
The first phase of the “Journey and Guide" hopes to present to the audience the meaning and development of the understanding of "performance art". At the same time, we are also able to view the historical development of a particular urban art, to the extent of planting a certain kind of lost seed in the heart of the readers which entice them to visit, search and recollect.
阿川發展史＆亞洲重要行位藝術事件年表
Time Line of ArTrend & Significant Events of Asia Performance Art
顧問Consultant：葉子啓 YEH Tzu-Chi
製表Lister：邱俊達 Yves Chun-Ta CHIU
現場行為藝術家
Performance Artist
Taiwan
Taiwan
Singapore
Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZNoe0HNlCg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2hhvWORyQ0My0uxfgNlvmqFKO83HgIOdGDGYFoyhLOsVGO9X7i9hAdkyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOtNoUpH8IU&feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vcVBBREF6U&list=LLDe9_I-Up-GniLqk4Jrukiw&index=3&t=20s
