- DATE : 11/10/2024 11/10/2024
- TIME : 15:00–16:00
- VENUE : West Court Lecture Theatre, Main Building, ECA, 74 Lauriston Place
2024 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture
Time: 11 October 2024 15:00-16:00 (followed by the screening of films)
Venue: 5.21 Project Room, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF, United Kingdom
Narration of Non-Conversational Portraits
–“Home” and “Unhomely” in Taiwanese Video Art
This talk focuses on exploring and analyzing the representation of family as a method of creation in Taiwanese video art. By focusing on the dichotomy between “home” and “unhomely,” this project investigates how artists interpret various notions of “home” through their personal family experiences. The research framework primarily involves delineating and mapping of generations. Drawing on the argumentative time frame of the “Art of Frustration in Taiwan” (2007), this delineation divides generations into the “‘home/nation’ symbol of the ‘pre-CO-Q generation’” and the “‘home/family’ traceability of the ‘CO-Q and post-CO-Q generation,’” elucidating the creative characteristics of representations of family. Furthermore, the project delineates the developmental structure of, generational differences in, and contemporary aesthetic positions regarding Taiwanese video art.
About the Speaker
Professor Jun-Yuan Hong
Dr Jun-Yuan Hong holds a PhD in Art Creation and Theory from the Tainan University of the Arts. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Bachelor Program in Taiwan Humanities and Creativity, at National Chung Hsing University.
His film has been showcased internationally and selected for various film festivals and video art festivals both in Taiwan and abroad. He has been nominated and recipient of various awards, among which are the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize (Second Prize in Photography and Video Art Category); the Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin Film Festival (Selected); the 9th Hollywood Serbia (Best Experimental Film Award); the 10th Cairo Video Festival (Selected); the SmolShorts Film Festival (Audience Award) at the Universitas Petropolitana in St Petersburg, Russia; the 2019 Copenhagen 60 Seconds Film Festival in Denmark (10 Best Videos Selected by the Jury, and Audience Award); the 2021 Kaohsiung Award (Selected, Video and New Media Art Category); the 2020 SANCF Award (Audiovisual Art Category); and the 8th Next Art Tainan. His works are included in the collections of the Ministry of Culture’s Art Bank Taiwan, the Arts Center of National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, etc.
Hong’s film engages in issues related to strong inner emotions, which is a tendency reinforced mainly by his dysfunctional family. Therefore, he tends to construct these tangled feelings through close-up photography and look for people with similar experiences and backgrounds in his films. By making these people his elements in filming, he can create an emotional state shared by these individual lives.
臺灣錄像藝術中的「家」與「非家」
本演講以家族再現作為論題，在問題意識的聚焦上，將透過「家」與「非家」（Unhomely）的相互辯證，探究藝術家如何透過自身家族事件的迻譯，進行各種「家」的複雜解讀。研究架構主要透過世代的界分與梳理進行議題分析，並以「頓挫藝術在臺灣」（2007）的論辯時間點進行劃界，分為「『前CO-Q世代』的『家/國』象徵」以及「『CO-Q與後CO-Q世代』的『家/族』溯源」，藉以闡述家族再現的創製特質，進一步梳理臺灣錄像藝術的發展體系、世代差異，以及當代的美學位置。
洪鈞元 Jun-Yuan Hong
國立臺南藝術大學藝術創作理論研究所博士，現為國立中興大學台灣人文創新學士學位學程助理教授。
作品足跡遍佈世界各地，數次入選各類國內外影展及錄像藝術節。曾獲第二屆地中海當代藝術獎「攝影與錄像藝術類」第二名、法國Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin影展入圍、第九屆塞爾維亞Holywood Serbia國際影展最佳實驗影片、第十屆開羅錄像藝術節入選、2020年俄羅斯聖彼得堡國立大學SmolShorts獨立影展觀眾票選獎、2019年丹麥哥本哈根60秒短片藝術節評審團十大最佳影片、觀眾票選獎；國內於2021年獲「高雄獎 – 影像暨科技媒體藝術類」入選、2020年世安美學獎「音像藝術類」及第八屆「臺南新藝獎」，作品亦獲文化部藝術銀行、國立高雄科技大學藝術中心等單位典藏。
洪鈞元作品帶有強烈的內在情感問題，主要原因來自於他的破碎原生家庭。因此，藝術家在作品中尋找具有相似成長經驗的對象成為關鍵元素，進而建構屬於自身生命體的共感同溫層。
