Taiwan relies on imports for 90 percent of its energy, but this island completely devoid of fossil fuels has a comprehensive petrochemical industry. This industry exacts an extremely high toll on the environment, a cost which has accumulated for many years, has been passed on the citizens of Taiwan, and constitutes an environmental and economic injustice spanning generations. Facing tightening energy resources in the current consumer era, we hope to create different possibilities that go beyond surplus industrial output. Being in our environment can be compared to being in a geochemical field, and individuals are chemically reactive molecules. People interact, bond, assemble and also transform one another to influence the features of the world. Contemporary art is one such catalyst of change and creates varying degrees of disturbance and variation in society. Make Sense presents paintings, photography, installations, video documentations and performance dedicated by 18 groups of artist: Chao-Tang Chang, Ting-Tong Chang, Jui-Kuang Chao, Min-Chun Lee | An-Chi Cheng, Hsiao-Lan Fan, Pei-I Hsiao, Hsin-Yao Huang, Wei-Min Huang, Ginger Wang | Ming-Ying Lee, Hoho Lin, Shu-Kai Lin, Yu-Hsien Su, Meng-Chang Tsai, Sheng-Hui Tseng, Pei-Shih Tu, Che-Yi Yang, Goang-Ming Yuan, Chong-Xiao Zheng. The exhibition is a meaning-based alchemical process which includes generating transformations, manufacturing possibilities, ideas and appraisals of the future. In this exhibition, concern for society and the power of cumulative change create something more sustainable—meaning. Source:TFAM
Contents
005 - Foreword
010 - Life's Alchemical Field Before the Post-Oil World to Come – Curatorial Concept Behind Make Sense│Chiaying Su / Kat Siao
020 - How to Make Perceptible Reality – On Social Consciousness in Make Sense│Sheng-Hung Wang
032 - Making Sense of A World that Hardly Makes Sense│Shu-Mei Huang
046 - The Multiple Dialectics to "Make Sense"│Li-Hsin Kuo
058 - Life and Death of Objects
Meng-Chang Tsai
Hsiao-Lan Fan
Pei-I Hsiao
078 - Vanishing Landscapes
Hoho Lin
Hsiao-Lan Fan
Che-Yi Yang
Pei-I Hsiao
Min-Chun Lee | An-Chi Cheng
106 - Fables and Prophecies
Pei-I Hsiao
Sheng-Hui Tseng
Wei-Min Huang
Shu-Kai Lin
128 - Retrieval
Jui-Kuang Chao
Yu-Hsien Su
140 - Energy and Perceptions
Goang-Ming Yuan
Chao-Tang Chang
Pei-Shih Tu
Chong-Xiao Zheng
Ting-Tong Chang
168 - To Live
Hsin-Yao Huang
Ginger Wang | Ming-Ying Lee
Ting-Tong Chang
188 - Artist Index
190 - Acknowledgement
ISBN: 9789860457896
Publish: 2015-10
Author: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Publisher: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Language:Chinese.English
Cover: Paperback
Page: 192
Size: 25.6 x 18 x 1.7 cm