策展人｜Curators
Patrick D. Flores（派屈克·D·佛洛雷斯）
Kim Seong-Youn（金圣渊）
谢佩君（Hsieh Pei-Chun）
国立台湾美术馆，台中
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
2023/12/02 – 2024/03/10
Don Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of artist CHANG Ling in the exhibition "Geopoetics: Changing Nature of Threatened Worlds", curated by Patrick D. Flores, Kim Seong-Youn, and Hsieh Pei-Chun, at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from 2 December 2023 to 10 March 2024.
In his poem I’m Not Gonna Talk to You about It, poet Wu Cheng uses three negative sentences to unlock the political potential of the following three things: poetry, life experience, and modern society. He reminds us that we’ll get closer to poetics as soon as we cease our empty rhetoric and interpretations in a cramped room, start to approach natural creatures and open fields of production, and try to extend the space-time for objects and humans through our senses.
Titled “Geopoetics: Changing Nature of Threatened Worlds,” this exhibition owes its inspiration to the idea that nothing can be more optimal than poetry to be the rendezvous for the private and the public as well as for introspection and extroversion. This exhibition not only advocates a poetic survey into the material conditions of East and Southeast Asia in postwar geopolitics, but also unravels contemporary art’s critical perspective withinin the landscpae of anti-poetics.On the basis of geopolitics, the term “geopoetics” further accentuates “form-making,” i.e., the shared similarity between geospatial distribution and poetic formation, so as to extend our concern over East and Southeast Asia in terms of international politico-economic issues like nation, region, and the center-periphery structure.
As we employ poetics to imply the likeness between world-making and form-making, we’ll discover that artistic creation bears more than a passing resemblance to geospatial reshuffle, and that natural / artificial landscapes can be analogized to aesthetic propositions. In this sense, poetic practice seems to emancipate Asia from unduly dogmatic geopolitics and ideology, which ergo offers alternative political potential for artistic creation. (By/Hsieh Pei-Chun)
7 December 2023
