在「不對外開放」的展覽裡，你期望可以窺探什麼？透過封閉性的告示，拉開展覽之於藝術家與美術館不同的關係與軸線，觸碰檔案的敏感狀態。

檔案，對我們而言是什麼？我們何以如此迫切地將記憶寫成檔案？它既私密不可公開，卻是時下你我共同所面臨一種日常性、普世性的問題。「當下」會隨時間而逝，而「檔案」便成為追逐已逝真實的唯一路徑。

《不對外開放》的命題來自於藝術家雙人組「太認真」繼《不夠歇斯底里的檔案化》展覽計畫之後，對於空間轉換的過程性體察。「太認真」視檔案為一種紀錄「真實」的方法，尋找文字、影像、數位形式以外的檔案化可能，進而思考檔案的有限性與變動性。「不對外開放」並不是一檔不對外開放的展覽，而是藝術家對於展覽事件與檔案狀態的描述。展覽自2015年朱銘美術館雕塑實驗基地徵件、投件、獲選至今，歷經一年之久，在嘗試建構所謂的「展覽」之前，藝術家透過思考如何進駐新空間與新環境為動機，進行一連串的初探與準備。試圖呈現過程中那些隨時間發酵與延展的創作內容，以及如圖層一般新增、關閉、複製、遞嬗的路徑，觸及展覽事件背後建構的過程。透過藝術家的觀察，紀錄與提取，匯集成藝術的「檔案」，揭示人們在追逐終點之前所不斷書寫、歸納、系統化的過程性與時間性。

 

 

In an exhibition that is “not open to the public”, what do you expect to peek at? Through the enclosed notice, it unfolds different relationships and diagonals of the exhibition vis-a-vis the artists and the museum, and touches upon the sensitivity of archives.

 

What does archive mean to us? Why do we so urgently turn memories into recorded archives? Even though they are private and inaccessible, they present themselves as a daily, universal question that you and I are facing together at present. “Contemporariness” will disappear as time goes by; thereby “archive” becomes the only path through which lost reality could be traced.

 

The thesis of “Not Open to the Public” comes from the artist duo “Working Hard”,  addressing the procedural realization of spacial transformation, following the exhibition project “Certified Copy”. “Working Hard” looks upon archives as a way to record “reality”, seeking other archiving possibilities aside from text, images, digital forms, and then considering the limitations and the variability of archives. “Not Open to the Public” is not an exhibition literally not open to the public, but a description from artists to the exhibition event and the archive status. From calling for applications, delivering applications, to being chosen for 2015 Experimental Sculpture Base Camp of Juming Museum, the whole process took the period of a year. Before attempting to set up a so-called “exhibition”, the artists thought about how to enter and be stationed in the new space and the new environment as motivation to do a series of preparation and preliminary study. Attempting to present the creative content which ferment and expand through time and the paths which would add, close, duplicate, evolve as layers, they touch the construction progress behind the exhibition event. The artists’ observation, record and extraction come together as “archives” of art, revealing the progressiveness and time of constantly writing, generalizing and systematizing of people before pursuing questions of life.

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Artist | WORKING HARD (Kuo Po-Yu × She Wen-Ying)
Date | 2016.04.16~05.29, Tue–Sun 10–17pm
Venue | Gallery 2 Juming Museum (20842 No.2, Xishihu, Jinshan Dist., New Taipei City, Taiwan R.O.C.)