Video
installations
SPACE
I: Peng Hung - Chih
SPACE II: Marco Scoffier October 17
- November 9, 2003 Opening
reception: October 17 |
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Peng Hung-Chih |
Marco Scoffier |
SPACE I: Hung-Chih Peng, lives and works in Tapei, Taiwan
Dogs
are the recurrent protagonists in Hung-Chih Peng sculpture and video works.
Because of our empathetic relationship with these creatures, they serve
as human surrogates. Peng also
suggests that the ambiguity of mixed-breed dogs is a telling symbol of the
cultural identity of Taiwan its traditional status remains contested, and
its cultural conditions evidence heterogeneous elements of indigenous cultures,
Chinese immigration and complex economic ties to the West.
In Face to Face, the viewer fuses with the animal as he looks
into a fiberglass dog to watch a video recorded from a dog's eye view.
Hung-Chih
Peng is artists-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.
To see you are seen. To hear you are heard. To be you have weight.
These three statements sketch out a kind of "conundrum of equilibrium"
which could help to tie together the three projects Marco Scoffier is
presenting at Goliath this month. Each has evolved through different
stages of testing and completion. Like any research project, each has
been transformed by its varied manifestations. Each is being shown in
its current state (sometimes of documentation) with a proposition for
the next evolution.
Two are from a series called the Human Antenna Project: self-levitation platform stems from one of Scoffier's earliest childhood memories and investigates our weight on this planet, real-time audio system, a sound piece, is a play on the "over-technicalization" of much audio work. The third project entitled conversation piece, focuses on non-verbal human expression and communication. The next evolution of conversation piece will be filmed and presented at goliath this spring. Stay tuned...
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