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The Dragon, Phoenix, Wealth and Auspice Appetize Plate 龍鳳富貴吉祥如意拼盤
The Dragon, Phoenix, Wealth and Auspice Appetize Plate 龍鳳富貴吉祥如意拼盤
The Dragon, Phoenix, Wealth and Auspice Appetize Plate 龍鳳富貴吉祥如意拼盤

The Dragon, Phoenix, Wealth and Auspice Appetize Plate龍鳳富貴吉祥如意拼盤

B&W & Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
1992
duration /
12'15

由一段彩色的中國滿漢全席料理之電視烹飪教學,與一段黑白愛情謀殺故事交錯而成,透過雙線交叉進行的敘事,作品模仿社區有線電視頻道的俗麗質感,在通俗文化與B級電影情節下,隱喻政治如愛情謀殺或異國料理般的華而不實,理想最終將成為如夢般的幻影。

about the artist /

Jun-Jieh Wang was born in 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1996, Wang graduated from the HdK Art Academy in Berlin, completing a master class (supervised by Valie Export and Heinz Emigholz). In 1984, he started working with video, and became one of the pioneers of new media art in Taiwan. Jun-Jieh Wang is currently professor and chairperson at the Department of New Media Art of the Taipei National University of the Arts.

In the years from 1984 and 1989 in Taiwan, in additional to writing film, theatre and culture criticisms in the major newspapers, Jun-Jieh Wang also collaborated with famous groups such as Notes Theater, U-Theatre, Rive-Gauche and Environmental Desolation Theater Group, and provided artistic direction for works including Earthquake, October and Dr. Faustus. In 1991, at the invitation of the Hong Kong avant-garde theatre group Zuni Icosahedron, Wang and German artist Klaus Weber jointly created installation works for The Revolutionary Opera, a programme of the Hong Kong Theatre Festival, which were exhibited at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

Jun-Jieh Wang received the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award in 1984 in Taiwan. In 1995, Wang received the Berlin Television Tower Award for his video installation Little Mutton Dumpling for the Thirteenth Day. In a review, Der Tagesspiegel wrote: “The Taiwanese new media artist Jun-Jieh Wang wishes….to expose the madness of advertising through irony, exaggerations and improbabilities…The commercial clip aesthetics demonstrates Far Eastern precision.” In 2000, Jun-Jieh Wang was selected by the prestigious Japanese art magazine “Bijutsu Techo” as one of “100 notable artists”. In 2002, Wang was commissioned by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum to create the public video installation Twin Cities. In the same year, he was the subject of a 30-minute NHK documentary “Asian Who’s Who”, which was aired on NHK’s global channel. In 2009, he received the one million NTD Taishin Arts Award in the visual art category for his video installation David’s Paradise.

Jun-Jieh Wang has been active on the international contemporary art arena from an early stage. Invitations to major international exhibitions came from, among others, the American Film Institute Video Festival, the Gwangju Biennale, the Venice Biennale, the Johannesburg Biennale, “Cities on the Move” at the Vienna Secession, Taipei Biennial, the First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, West Bund Biennial Shanghai, Ars Electronica Linz, Transmediale Berlin, Dogo Onsen Art and European Media Art Festival etc.

In recent years, Wang has also worked as an independent curator. In 2004, he curated “Navigator: Digital Art in the Making”, the first exhibition to introduce digital art to Taiwan on a large scale. Encompassing the classic works of digital art since the 1990s, it stimulated the discussion on technological art in Taiwan. His main work as curator and exhibition designer includes: “Faces of the Time” (National Palace Museum, 2002), “The Post-Stone Age” (Art Taipei 2005), “B!AS: International Sound Art Exhibition” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2005) , “2006 Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga” (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2006) , “The Grand Illusion – International New Media Arts Festival” (Culture Gallery at National Concert Hall, 2009), “The 4th Taipei Digital Art Festival” (MOCA Taipei, 2009) , “Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art” (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2011), “Transjourney: 2012 Future Media Festival” (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA, 2012) etc.

Wang’s work in interdisciplinary theatre and design in recent years includes: serving as Staging Visual Director for the Taiwan premiere of Wagner’s complete opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan in 2006; as Multimedia and Visual Director for the musical Turn Left, Turn Right based on Jimmy’s picture book in 2008, the closing performance of the Taipei Arts Festival (Taipei Arena); as Stage and Visual Designer for Mackay – The Black Bearded Bible Man (National Theater, 2009), Taiwan’s first original opera sung in Taiwanese dialect; co-directing the technological media theatre work L’Après-midi de la Gravité with Wang Chia-Ming in 2010; directing unmanned technological media theatre Sin City in 2013 and creating The Night of Sodom (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2015).

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