"Wind" is the movement, power, breath, smell, hint, compass point of air, or the gas generated in the body. In Wang Hongkai's work Borom (transliteration of "wind" in Jeju dialect), "wind" not only represents the ubiquitous natural and political forces on Jeju Island, but also refers to the material and spiritual forces that shape the landscape, language, sound and life style of Jeju. The work takes the exile journey of Korean Japanese poet Kim Jong Il from Jeju by boat to Japan in 1949 due to his participation in the April 3rd incident in Jeju as the axis. It is composed of multimodal "encounters" between sea breeze and Kim Jong Il, human beings, gods, materials, creatures, things, etc. Through the navigation of "sea breeze", these "encounters" cross different relationship networks, including history, mythology, landscape, geology, desire, danger, asylum, poetry, etc, And between witness, dream, plot, memory, forgetting, warning, feeling and listening, we can ask: what can constitute the "togetherness" of different patterns? How does this "sense of closeness" spread, spread and move in the form of air, breath, gas and power?
In this lecture, Wang Hongkai will introduce the thinking contained in Borom and the insights and understandings in the creation process to the audience from the perspective of sound media.
“风”是空气的移动、动力、气息、气味、暗示、罗经点，或体内产生的气体。在王虹凯的作品《Borom》（济州方言“风”的音译）中，“风”不仅代表济州岛上无所不在的自然和政治力量，也指涉形塑济州的景观、语言、声响与生活样态的物质与精神力量。该作品以韩裔日籍诗人金时钟1949年因参与济州四三事件被迫从济州坐船到日本的流亡之旅作为轴线，由海风与金时钟、人类、神祗、物质、生物、事物等之间的多模态“相遇”组成，透过“海风”的导航，这些“相遇”穿越不同关系网络，包含历史、神话、地景、地质、欲望、危险、庇护、诗歌等，并于见证、梦想、密谋、回忆、遗忘、示警、感受与聆听间，进而试问：是什么能构成不同模式形态的“连结亲近感”（togetherness）？而这种“连结亲近感”是如何以空气、呼吸、气体和动力的形式来传播、散布、移动？
本场讲座，王虹凯将别具一格地从声音媒介出发，为观者介绍《Borom》当中蕴含的思考及创作过程中的所见和诸多领悟。
Hong-kai Wang was born in Huwei, Taiwan, and graduated from National Taiwan University and New Society Research Institute in New York, the United States. He is currently a PhD candidate of Vienna Art Institute, Austria. His research oriented creation focuses on the tension between language, ideology, identity and knowledge system, and explores the political nature of "listening" and "understanding" at the intersection of power, survival experience and history. Experiment with different listening and gathering modes in the form of performance, voice, workshop, installation, publishing, etc., and explore the complex and changeable relationship among desire generation, labor history, coexistence imagination and knowledge dimensions in the time/space intersection.
Hong-kai Wang has exhibited and performed at the Radio Station of the Queen Sofia National Art Museum in Madrid, the 2019 Asian Art Biennale, the 2019 Yokohama Performing Arts Festival, the New York Sculpture Art Center, the 14th Kassel Literature Exhibition, the 2016 Taipei Biennale, the Australian Liquid Sound Art Festival, the New York Modern Art Museum and other places, and participated in the Taiwan Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.
王虹凯生于台湾虎尾，毕业于国立台湾大学、美国纽约新社会研究学院，目前为奥地利维也纳艺术学院PhD in Practice博士候选人。其调研取向创作关注语言、意识形态，身分认同与知识体系之间的张力，作品探究权力、生存经历和历史交错点上「聆听」与「认识」的政治性。以表演、声音、工作坊、装置、出版等形式，实验不同的聆听与聚集模式，探触时/空交错中欲望生成、劳动历史、共存想象和知识维度之间复杂与多变的关系。
虹凯曾在马德里索菲亚王后国家美术馆广播电台、2019年亚洲艺术双年展、2019年横滨表演艺术节、纽约雕塑艺术中心、第14届卡塞尔文献展、2016年台北双年展、澳洲液体声音艺术节、纽约现代美术馆等地展出和表演，并参与第54届威尼斯双年展台湾馆。
