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Goang-Ming Yuan
Everyday War
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Everyday War
2024 Video 10 min. 33 sec.

[Date]
9/27(Fri) 17:30 - 23:00
9/28(Sat) 16:00 - 23:00
9/29(Sun) 16:00 - 20:00
[Place]
Giotto House, 1st Floor
[Participation fee]
Free
Goang-Ming Yuan, one of the most prominent video artists in Taiwan’s contemporary art world, will present “Everyday War” (2024) for the first time in Asia, a video work that attracted much attention when it was premiered at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale this year.
Seen in a mundane room where a young person lives, are explosions and flames after something, although not visible, breaks in. It also looks as though entirety of the room got attacked, destroyed and left in ruins as a result of war breaking out. The work deals with various things that threaten human lives today and the dailiness of them.

ARTISTS

Goang-Ming Yuan

Goang-Ming Yuan was born in Taipei in 1965, where he continues to reside. Known as a pioneer of the video art in Taiwan, Yuan renews the possibilities for it with the use of self-made filming devices and other equipment, and poetically expresses the problems facing humanity in his works. He has participated in international exhibitions such as Taipei Biennale (1996, 1998 and 2002), Taiwan Pavilion of Venice Biennale (2003 and 2024), and Aichi Triennale 2019. Currently Professor in the Department of New Media Art, Taipei National University of the Arts.