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The Untitled Year

In March 2020, the globe entered a daily and survival state of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although Taiwan’s situation is not as dreadful as in other countries, a metaphysical “self-isolation” is once branded in people’s hearts in various shapes, such as border blockade, footprint monitoring, a sudden drop in social frequency, masking of the face and freshly alienation. No matter from a physical or psychological state, it makes the three artists, who used to habitually stay in their homes in the Xindian mountainous area, feel of sheltering in the mountains and forests even more. Hence, the fourth project began with an indescribable contradiction as their prospective driving force, including living in seclusion and communicating with human civilization.

In the pandemic, people increasingly rely on the media to interconnect with the world. Since the widespread of the Capitol invasion broadcast in the US, a far-right activist dressed in a Native American-like fur headdress with horns became the news headline for a while. This distant and appalling image resets this piece of artwork of Xindian Boys. Thus, these elements of the (pseudo) naturalism, the abuse of totems, the smoke (whether it is mists, fire, fireworks, or tear gas), the viruses and DNA (a crude imitation of primitivism), the classic graveyards, the men and women on an outing and the frequently-failed-to-take-off kite, are placed in the scene of Nanshi Creek, a familiar environment for the artists, and stretched into a fictitious ceremony. All the messages are clear, transparent and indescribable, while the statuses seem to be closely related to the world yet have nothing relevant at the same time. Like Xindian Boys’ first artwork, The Best Day, the lens of “The Untitled Year” consistently rotates between mountains and rivers; meanwhile, plenty trifle biting back incidents happen in succession. However, the difference is that something gloomy covers everything.

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偽日記，活版鉛字與影像書寫創作-陳文祺個展 Authenticity Temporal Memory – Chen Wen-Chi Solo Exhibition

展 期：2015/03/3 – 2015/03/28 開幕酒會：2015/03/7 (六) 19:00 展覽地點：VT Artsalon 非常廟藝文空間 (台北市新生北路三段56巷17號B1) 網 址：http://www.vtartsalon.com/ 聯絡電話：02-2597-2525 EMAIL：[email protected]

「若時間是這一片海，我們在記憶中推引與淹沒。」

陳文祺，現任實踐大學媒體傳達設計學系（所）主任。「偽日記」是陳文祺繼2012年在北美館的「物自體」與海馬迴「物自體 2…