/// SLASH \\\ LEE\VAKULYAPost date：2023-10-17
Updates：2023-10-17
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- Event Time
- 2023-10-07~2023-10-22Tue.-Sun. 11:00－18:30
- Event Location
- No. 180, Fuhua Rd.,, Shilin Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
/// SLASH \\\ is a space that holds several video artworks which are created by LEE\VAKULYA, a Belgium based dance company led by Chen-Wei Lee and Vakulya Zoltán. They work with visual artist Ding-Yeh Wang as their creative advisor whom they have collaborated for longterm in several stage works and gallery space.
/// SLASH \\\ is a part of a 3-year long artistic research and creative process that started in 2021, with the first creation for the stage “ BURNT [the eternal long now] ”which has won the Taishin Performing Arts Award 2023. This exhibition is in line with the theme of BURNT and has partially grown out of the research period and the creative process.
With each video work involves the thinking in the creation process, it transformed to the video with different physical engagement/ performativity /format. The research closely examines the dynamic between achievement and exhaustion through burn-out syndrome.
According to Dutch sociologist, Fred L. Polak in his book The image of the future (1961), “ Every man leads a double life.” For Polak, this dualism was the indispensable prerequisite for the movement of events in time and for the dynamic of historical change.
However, today “ a double life” seems an understatement. With the quick development of digital technologies in the last decades, how many lives has this led us to lead simultaneously? How do we (ac)count (for) the myriad of selves we manage across platforms, spaces, profiles, and interfaces?
For most of the people, these lives” have multiplied over time: the Facebook Self differs from the LinkedIn Self as does the Professional Self of the office calendar, in contrast to the Imaged Self on Instagram or the Quantified Self on one’s FitBit. Within this intense fracturing, the idea of a “ double life” seems romantically simple.
/// SLASH \\\ is a part of a 3-year long artistic research and creative process that started in 2021, with the first creation for the stage “ BURNT [the eternal long now] ”which has won the Taishin Performing Arts Award 2023. This exhibition is in line with the theme of BURNT and has partially grown out of the research period and the creative process.
With each video work involves the thinking in the creation process, it transformed to the video with different physical engagement/ performativity /format. The research closely examines the dynamic between achievement and exhaustion through burn-out syndrome.
According to Dutch sociologist, Fred L. Polak in his book The image of the future (1961), “ Every man leads a double life.” For Polak, this dualism was the indispensable prerequisite for the movement of events in time and for the dynamic of historical change.
However, today “ a double life” seems an understatement. With the quick development of digital technologies in the last decades, how many lives has this led us to lead simultaneously? How do we (ac)count (for) the myriad of selves we manage across platforms, spaces, profiles, and interfaces?
For most of the people, these lives” have multiplied over time: the Facebook Self differs from the LinkedIn Self as does the Professional Self of the office calendar, in contrast to the Imaged Self on Instagram or the Quantified Self on one’s FitBit. Within this intense fracturing, the idea of a “ double life” seems romantically simple.
