Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

HSU Che-Yu primarily creates animations, videos and installations that explore the relationship between media and memories. The artist is concerned with issues that go beyond not only with how historical events can be traced through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective. Through oddities that people can hardly tell authenticity of, his videos explore how media influences the way we understand the world. Microphone Test: A letter to Huang Guo-Jun is a complex and poetic reflection on the destructive and redemptive powers of memory. He substitutes line-drawing virtual characters for the subject, allowing these characters to penetrate into the real scene. However, whose truth are these?

Through this panel discussion, artist HSU Che-yu and curator Amy CHENG will talk about art practice of HSU Che-yu, share stories behind the scene, discuss the relationship between media and memory construction, and reflect the intertwined dialectic between reality and fiction.

许哲瑜的作品形式以动画、录像、装置为主，作品关注媒介与记忆之间的关系。对创作者而言，无论是个人私密的或群体记忆，重要的并不只是透过媒介所能回溯的事件历史，更是记忆如何被建构与被观看的过程。以难辨真实的奇观事件，一段段录像演绎着媒介如何影响我们理解世界的方式。如《麦克风试音：致信黄国峻》，一个25分钟结合视频和动画的视频装置，是对记忆的破坏性和救赎醒的一种复杂而富有诗意的反思。他以线描勾勒的虚拟人物取代被摄者，让这些虚拟的人物渗入真实的场景里，但这样的真实是谁的真实？

本次对谈，艺术家许哲瑜将和策展人郑慧华一起，梳理艺术家的创作脉络，和观众分享许哲瑜之前的作品和作品背后的故事，讨论媒介与记忆建构的关系、反思真实与虚拟间的交错辩证性。

Born in 1985, HSU Che-Yu currently lives and works in Taipei. He primarily creates animations, videos and installations that explore the relationship between media and memories. The artist is concerned with issues that go beyond not only with how historical events can be traced through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective. His recent exhibitions include: Shanghai Biennale: Proregress (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018); London Design Biennale: Emotional States (Somerset House, London, 2018); Rencontres Internationales (Forum des Images/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Paris/Berlin, 2018); International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, 2018); BANGKOK BIENNIAL: Cinema Taipei (Cho Why, Bangkok, 2018) ; EXiS, Experimental Film And Video Festiva, Digital Break (Sonje Art Center, Seoul, 2017); Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2016).

Amy CHENG is a curator and writer based in Taipei. In 2010, with music critic Jeph Lo, she co-founded TheCube Project Space, which serves as an independent art space devoted to the research, production and presentation of contemporary art in Taipei. With the aim of delving deeply into local culture and establishing long-term relationships with artists, Cheng explores the possibility of “expanding curating”. Since 2009, she has carried out several research projects, including “Sound Cultures in Taiwan” and “Critical Political Art and Curatorial Practice Research”, for which she contributed to and edited the publication Art and Society: Introducing Seven Contemporary Artists. In 2016, she begins organizing cultural study courses outside the establishment, the “Praxis School” lecture series. Recent exhibitions curated by Amy Cheng include: “The Heard and the Unheard: Soundscape Taiwan, Taiwan Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia” (2011), the exhibition series “Re-envisioning Society” (2011–2013) and “Towards Mysterious Realities” (2016). She also co-curated these exhibitions such as “ALTERing NATIVism—Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan” (2014), and “Tell Me a Story: Locality and Narrative” (2016, 2018).

许哲瑜生于1985年，现生活工作于台北。许哲瑜的作品形式以动画、录像、装置为主。作品关注媒介与记忆之间的关系，对创作者而言，无论是个人私密的或群体记忆，重要的并不只是透过媒介所能回溯的事件历史，更是记忆如何被建构与被观看的过程。参加的展览包括：上海双年展：禹步（上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，2018）、伦敦设计双年展：情绪状态（萨默塞特宫，伦敦，2018）、相遇国际录像艺术节（电影影像中心/世界文化中心，巴黎/柏林，2018）、鹿特丹国际影展（鹿特丹，2018）、曼谷双年展：影像台北（Cho Why，曼谷，2018）、EXiS 实验电影节（善宰艺术中心，首尔，2017）、时间测试：国际录像艺术研究展（中央美术学院美术馆，北京，2016）。

郑慧华，独立策展人，工作于台北。2010年与乐评人罗悦全于台北成立非营利机构“立方计划空间”，期望深耕在地文化，建立与创作者的长期合作关系，以实践关注“拓展策展”的可能性。郑慧华自2009年开始进行系列性的研究项目，包括“批判性政治艺术创作暨策展实践”并出版《艺术与社会─当代艺术家专文与访谈》一书和“台湾声响文化”等。自2016年起，她组织体制外的学习课程“学实学校”。近年策划的展览：2011年威尼斯双年展台湾馆“听见，以及那些未被听见的：台湾社会声音图景”、“重建／见社会”系列策划展（2011–2013）等；共同策划的展览包括“造音翻土：战后台湾声响文化的探索”（2014）、“告诉我一个故事：地方性与叙事”（2016、2018）等。