Vi segnalo gli interessanti progetti in corso ora al MOCA di Taipei dal titolo "Liquid Love" e "Sound Meridians" sul tema delle relazioni sociali e affettive nei nostri tempi, sulle reti esterne ma anche sulle reti interni del nostro "corpo".
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Sound Meridians, the title of this project, owes its inspiration to the concept in traditional Chinese medicine, claiming that human life is sustained by the energy circulating around the meridian system in the human body. In Western anatomy, there is no convincing evidence of meridians, yet there has been empirical verification in the practice of Chinese medicine. This project invokes such a view of corporeality as an imagery metaphor, investigating how sound can communicate different local cultures, put them into circulation, and even transform them into dynamic public spaces, and how sound culture per se can become the medium and material for the topology of history that responds to the historico-cultural development endemic to a place.
●Liquid Love, the title of this exhibition, owes its inspiration to the book by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (2003). This exhibition re-thinks and explores the experiences of contemporary life in network society through the lens of Bauman’s reflective thinking on the modern world.
●Bauman coined the term “liquid modernity” to characterize our life experiences, as they are shaped and dominated by the flow of financial capital and big data, accompanied by the artificial manipulations and ubiquitous algorithms, and the incorporation of state-of-the-art telecommunications technology today. These experiences and features were exactly what Bauman devoted a lifetime to analyzing.
●Just as Bauman argued, we are inhabitants of the liquid modern world in the information age. In this exhibition, we treat the creative thought and practice of art as an alternative and conceptual means for a new round of dialectical reflection on the world we live in.
●Citing the clues that 19th-century poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire left behind in Le Spleen de Paris, Bauman expounded his idea of non-linear liquid temporality at the outset of Liquid Love. Baudelaire wrote: “My dear friend, I send you a small work of which one could say, not unjustly, that it has neither head nor tail, since everything in it is on the contrary a head and a tail, alternatively and reciprocally. […] We may cut short […] because I do not hold the tiring will of any of them endlessly to a superfluous plot.”
●Similarly, this exhibition seeks to immerse the visitors in the reading and perceptual context of “multiple nodes” and “synchronicity,” thereby helping us reflect on today’s infoxication syndromes, yet allowing us to “envision” society from the perspective of the Baudelairean flâneurs.
