展覽介紹
在作家吳明益的島嶼奇幻文學作品《複眼人》裡，太平洋廢棄物帶襲滅了台灣東南鄰海名為「瓦憂瓦憂」小島的前文字文明。該作所描述的氣候力量，被視為一個跨越自然與文明的混合物，同時亦形象化了當代全球化社會漂流於「科技」與「危機」中的「島嶼性」——做為現代性魅影的投射。
〈氣候幻事〉展覽概念援引自通俗文學的新辭彙「氣候幻想」（climate fiction, cli-fi）； 「氣幻」意指那類描繪某個反烏托邦的現實－當代世界，因為氣候災難而發展出救贖情節的虛構敘事體。相較於科幻的未來主義，「氣幻」著眼於社會現實與人性回 復的重申，並且是對現存物質世界的假設；假想氣候異變、環境災難做為一個跨越當代治理性的混沌力量，破壞與重組已知的經驗與權力秩序。
借 用此一概念，本展嘗試提供出一個對當代性中「氣候性」的初步指稱，透過廣義的「氣候」或是「擬造氣候」來理解當代性，或是捕捉與描摹一種介於氣象學、地質 學式的當代的感覺團塊，以做為一個對當代描述方法的審視。展覽呈現將以「物敘事」的手法，同時並進經驗與論述兩個方向的鋪展。
展覽日期 ： 2015年3月21日～2015年5月17日
展覽地點 ： 鳳甲美術館（台北市北投區大業路166號11樓）
開放時間：週二-周日：10:30～17:30
開幕時間 ： 2015年3月21日（六）下午3:00～5:00
活動網址：http://www.hong-gah.org.tw/
鳳甲美術館Facebook：http://on.fb.me/1AsTtN0
策 展 人：方彥翔
參展藝術家：蓋‧班納、基‧哈默斯、阿尼耶絲卡‧庫倫、奇亞努許‧莫塔勒比、傑括瓦．尼坦隆、島袋道浩、克里斯多夫‧舒瓦茲、伯恩諾特‧史邁爾德、吳其育、吳樹安
藝術家座談：2015年3月22日（日） 下午2:00～5:00
與 談 人： 阿尼耶絲卡‧庫倫、奇亞努許‧莫塔勒比、伯恩諾特‧史邁爾德
In Taiwanese writer Wu Ming-yi’s islandish fantasy, “Man with the Compound Eyes”, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch demolished a prehistoric culture of Woenesia Island in the eastern waters of Taiwan. In the novel, the power of climate is described as a hybrid that through nature and civilization, meanwhile, it configures a picture of contemporary globalised society, floating above the ‘technology’ and ‘crisis’ — Island as a phantom of modernity.
The curatorial concept of “A Climate Fictionalism adopts an emerging terminology in popular literature, “climate fiction (cli-fi).” It refers to a sort of fiction that presents a contemporary reality of Dystopia—the present day, creating its heroic rescue stories through the natural disasters. Compared with the sci-fi’s futurism, “cli-fi” is a hypothesis based on the substantial and physical world; it focuses more on the social reality and also re-claims humanity by means of this metaphor of dystopia. It imagines the dramatic climate changes and environmental disasters as a chaoslike power that transcends the contemporary governmentality, deconstructing and reforming the already known experiences as well as the order of power.
By using this concept idea, the exhibition intends to point out a preliminary signifier of ‘the climatic’ in the modernity, understanding the contemporary world through the ‘climate’, or ‘climate imitating’, or grasping and depicting a mass of feelings in-between the Meteorology and Geology, as one of the methodologies of contemporaneity. The project presents itself as a “fiction sans narration”, and extends into both the empirical and theoretical ways.
Dates: March 21, 2015 to May 17, 2015
Venue: Hong-Gah Museum (11F., No.166 Daye Rd., Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan, 11268)
Curator: FANG Yen-Hsiang
Artists: Guy BEN-NER, Kit HAMMONDS, Agnieszka KURANT, Kianoosh MOTALLEBI, Jakrawal NILTHAMRONG, SHIMABUKU, Christoph SCHWARZ, Berndnaut SMILDE, WU Chi-Yu, WU Shu-An
Opening reception: Saturday, March 21, 2015 15:00 pm-17:00 pm
Artists’ Talk: Sunday, March 22, 2015 14:00 pm-17:00 pm
Participants: Agnieszka KURANT, Kianoosh MOTALLEBI, Berndnaut SMILDE