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Tsui Kuang-Yu
Born 1974 Taipei , Taiwan
"My art actions make use of simple digital video documentaries and installations, taking place in a city environment, underscoring the ¡°interjection¡± of the individual, and serving as a provocative exploration and experimentation with a given environment's capacity for tolerance".
"As the core concept of an art action, mimicry invokes a biological concept, not only providing a subject within an ecosystem with a tool-like interface that can change according to reality, but also achieving a strategy in which the subject deliberately alters his external appearance in order to penetrate environmental barriers. But these films of ¡°mimicry¡± usually include the action of the artist entering, passing through and exiting the scene. It is an imitation, not an explanation. It is also a declaration of the dissonance among various pre-established identities: You arrive at a certain venue in society and at great pains perform an extremely divergent form of behavior, acting out the inner drama that occurs in urban people every day ? the attempt to demonstrate that one is no different from anyone else".
¡°In order to pursue the possibilities that lie within the crevices of the city... at any given time we place ourselves in the exotic moods that arise from the overlapping of fragmentary realities and everyday life.¡± Perhaps we can view ¡°City Spirit¡± as a form of environmental mimicry on a very large scale: In the name of art, in a series of casual pretenses, all of our preconceptions are reenacted. This self-awareness allows us to engage in these constant dead-end collisions, and survive unscathed. Perhaps this is the true triumph of contemporary life".
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Gaia Alessi & Richard Bradbury: uk
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