2019高雄國際貨櫃藝術節《陷阱》
International Container Arts Festival 《Trap》
【陷阱的所在】
第十屆2019高雄貨櫃藝術節(2001-2019)將串聯高美館十餘年有成的「南島當代藝術」(2006-2019)的能量進行策展。「陷阱」作為本屆的命題，將不管是北漂或南漂在都市生活的人，拉到一個人生存的最原初需求—覓食，在沒有超市的年代，食物要自己去取得，部落形式的群居族群透過分食、分工來延續種族的生存。群體透過競爭還是合作才能安然存活?透過「陷阱」議題來進行貨櫃藝術創作，探索「陷阱」這件事，只是理解南島文化眾多切入點的其中一個選項，它可以是輕鬆的，也可以是嚴肅的，透過這個選項，可以輻射到生活的、土地的、社會的、政治的、經濟的面向。
【陷阱的所在/The Place of Trap】
Taking the theme of “trap”, the 2019 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival is intended to indirectly raise a question to modern people. Nowadays, we are living a highly industrialized and modernized life with advanced information technology. We have taken many things and conveniences we are having in daily life for granted. However, what if all our current possessions and conveniences were gone, what kind of life will we have then? With the hypothetical theme of “trap” for the Festival this year, artists take viewers on an adventure on a material and/or spiritual level to find an answer to this question and find the destination of life for themselves.
Let’s imagine: Our life is retrograded back to its most primitive form in which we have to meet the most fundamental need for survival by finding and collecting food all by ourselves. There is no monetary currency or supermarket. We have to obtain food mostly through our labor or intellect. Living in cities where people are alienated from one another, we may envy the collective lifestyle of living together as whole that still exists in indigenous communities. Through their sharing of food and division of work, they are able to continue their bloodlines and cultures. They serve as a model of utopian society for modern civilizations. During the era of bartering, did humanity compete or cooperate in order to survive? In the present days with physical or virtual currency, convenient life at the material level does not necessarily bring spiritual richness; as a result, more and more people are longing for life back in the wild fields and mountain forests.
In the Festival this year, we construct a virtual dialogue between wild jungles and urban jungles, discussing freely about the “trap”—its concrete existence (at the substance level) and its conceptual nature (at the abstract level). However, traps are often hidden and come in a diverse variety of forms. How can we identify them and avoid being trapped? The issue of the “trap” is taken both lightly and seriously in the Festival this year with the participating artists deepening their discussions through their works about “traps” in different domains of life, such as culture, human rights, land, politics, economy, and society.
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指導單位：文化部、原住民族委員會
補助單位：高雄市政府文化局
主辦單位：高雄市立美術館
協辦單位：原住民族文化發展中心
贊助單位：大觀視覺顧問股份有限公司
誠美地產開發股份有限公司
財團法人山藝術文教基金會
指定飯店：哲園學產文教會館
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●伏地影像工作室，導演/黃繼賢
●展覽日期：2019/12/7(六)─2020/2/9(日)
●展覽地點：高雄市立美術館南島園區
●2019高雄國際貨櫃藝術節官網：
http://www.kmfa.gov.tw/2019ContainerArt
●歷年貨櫃藝術節網站連結
http://www.khcc.gov.tw/rwd_home02.aspx?ID=$0A32&IDK=2&EXEC=L
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