inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 - Retina of the Unconscious

inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 - Retina of the Unconscious
October 1 – 24, 2015

Organizer｜CHEN Wei-Ching, Joanne
Curated by WANG Chun-Chi
Opening Reception｜Thur. Oct 1, 6 - 8pm


inCube Arts is delighted to announce our forthcoming second edition of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 in October, 2015. Organized by CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne and curated by WANG Chun-Chi, Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI and Carol Yinghua LU, the festival aims to continuing its mission to exhibit time-based art with perspectives from Asia. Three exhibition venues bring the Asia-based artists’ works together to the New York City.

A part of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 exhibition Retina of the Unconscious, curated by WANG Chun-Chi, opens on Oct 1, 2015 at The Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Art Gallery. One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives (1). Contemporary perspectives on the unconscious mind are remarkably varied. How one views the power and influence of the unconscious relative to conscious modes of information processing largely depends on how one defines the unconscious.
This expanded and enhanced view of the unconscious as the artist analyzing shows the hidden connection between eye and sounds. Being unconscious can be understood as being immediately present, as being here and now.
In the exhibition, TAO Ya-lun, a Taiwanese artist who has been working on Heart Projector (2013), a project based on the installations, which often involve light, are heavy meditative spaces which seek to demarcate a zone outside of the over-proliferation and clutter of visual signs in contemporary life. And the Structure Study III
 (2014), a project by Taiwanese Canadians artist Hao NI, to present yet vaguely surreal, the works - ranging from sculpture to video and mixed-media installation are installed as a cohesive whole.
Also included Unknown Colors (2015) by Chihiro Minato, he has been working on wide variety of themes, including the relationship between the emergence of images and the memory. His current project about color analyzing using digital photography and automatic nomination system by computer. A new work Mixed Signals (2015) by Korean artist Kim Joon is realized in the form of sound-installation, using the results of collected various sounds in site-specific areas. Also the project Delirious, the Midnight Sun Is Gorgeous (2012-13) by Chinese Canadians artist Yi Xin TONG who was to work constructs poetic and fantastical narratives through multimedia installations, and books to explore the dialectics of romanticism into our era that worships rationality and capita.
The film Day for Night (2014) by Korean artist Sejin Kim attempted to create visual narratives with using an unsynchronized scenes among videos, sounds, and color frames to address the reality of desolation, ruin, and lack where lies on behind of an excessiveness and an acceleration in contemporary society.
A Taiwanese artist KUO I-Chen's work Lightyears (2011) shows with a truly multifaceted practice, working across video, photography, performance, and sculpture - incorporating elements of all means into a finished end. A large-scale installation Er lin qi an (2014) by TING Chaong-Wen, the artist created the excelling in spatial installations of mixed media such as images and ready-mades, the artist has shifted his focus to the exploration of the plastic potential of art with archives.
(1.) For an introduction see book Modern Classics Unconscious)


PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Chihiro MINATO｜Hao NI｜Joon KIM｜KUO I-Chen｜TAO Ya-lun｜Yi Xin TONG｜Sejin KIM｜TING Chaong-Wen｜Audrey CHEN｜C. Spencer YEH


Related programs

Exhibition II - Retina of the Unconscious
Oct 1 – 24, 2015
Opening｜Fri. Oct 2, 6 – 8pm
inCube Arts SPACE
314 West 52nd street, #1
New York, NY 10019

Exhibition III - Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the Forefront
Oct 3 – 31, 2015
Curator｜Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI
Opening/Artist & Curator Talk｜Sat. Oct 3, 1:30 – 5pm
The Queens Museum - Partnership Gallery
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens NY 11368


Film Screening
Sun. Oct 4, 1 – 5pm
Curator｜Loredana PAZZINI-PARACCIANI, Carol Yinghua LU
The Queens Museum Theater


Sound Performances
Sat. Oct 24, 3 - 5pm
Performance by Audrey CHEN ｜C.Spencer YEH｜Hao NI｜Yi-Xin TONG

Artist & Curator Talk
Sat. Oct 24, 5 - 6pm
Talks by WANG Chun-Ch｜C.Spencer YEH｜Audrey CHEN
The Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Art Gallery
417 Lafayette street 4th floor, New York, NY 10003




ABOUT THE CURATOR
WANG Chun-Chi is a Taiwanese curator based in Berlin. She is trained as artist at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In 2012, she was Assistant Curator for Taipei Biennial, Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction (with Anselm Franke). Her projects was presented in Berlin, Paris, New York, Taipei, and Seoul in various collaborations (2010 - ongoing). A collective and intergenerational investigation of feminism in the context of contemporary art practice that included a symposium, exhibition; and lecture. She is the founder and director of IDOLONSTUDIO (Berlin). She currently working on the exhibition Urban Synesthesia for the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2015.



inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 is the one and the only art festival that dedicate to Asian time-based art in North America, gathers together a group of time-based art work, including videos, short film, kinetic installations and real-time sound art performances, featuring 27 artists from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, China, Canada, United States, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines. These artists, with varying cultural and social backgrounds, reflect on their life experiences in relation to the world-wide social issues associated with a global culture, and how this affects the dynamics of the rising East Asian cities as a whole.
Website: http://www.incube-arts.org/2015.html
For more information, please contact with CHEN Wei-ching, Joanne ([email protected]) and Shihyu HSU ([email protected])