We are going to Taipei

We are Going to Taipei is an art project that generates collaborations and relationships between the artists and/or non-residents and the residents of Taiwan. The relationships that is developed by the process of drawing portrait and etc. has conveyed artists, passers by, audiences, participants and everyone to experience and come across a transition of social, cultural and personal space, the overlapping condition when living together.

The ”We are going” hereby means to adapt, to explore, to experience and to discover people, social context and community or place. Toward the experience of “we are going to Taipei” the “we” hereby represents not only the artists who are outsiders but also interrelates to other people in many different layers from past to present.

The art project conclusion is on view at Taipei artist village 0n 5/4-6/17 exhibition  Venue: Barry Room @ TAV

(No.7 Beiping E. Rd, Taipei. Exit 1 Shandao Temple Station/ Exit M2 Taipei Main Station)

We Are Going to Taipei, still frames from two-channel video installation, interactive performance-based drawing, loop, Silent, 5’06” min.

We Are Going to Taipei, Still frames from one-channel stop motion video 90◦ vertical on projector, installation ,  interactive performance-based drawing,  loop , Silent, 07’51”min.



Life Time


Year: 2011

Dimension: 12 x 18 “each

Medium: Mixed media, Digital printed photos

A series of printed photos of 12 x 18 inches with human hair that created through a collaborative process with a local salon in Ratchaburi province, Thailand, the artists’ home town. The artists invited several old customers of an old (more than 30 years) local salon to participate by having their hair done at the salon and collected some of each person’s hair to attach at the eyebrows area of the person’s portraits.

Life Time, 2011, is a series of work that  related to the Too Close to See mixed media photographs of jiandyin which created in 2010.

Too Close to See

A series of b/w 16 x 24 inches printed photos of the artists’ self portrait with female artist’s hair attached on the eyebrows area of each photo. It is an off-image subconscious moment of a man and a woman.

Year: 2010

Dimension: 16 x24 “each

Medium: Mixed media, Digital printed photos

Edition:    4

Photographed by Jaroonrat Ben Vitoosuwan

Dialogue : Seeing and Being)

Battery Park, NYC, September 2010

Ratchaburi, June 2011

The Dialogue (seeing and doing) is an ongoing creative process in 2010.  The artist invited audience or ordinary people to participate (participatory collaboration) by drawing portraits for each participant at many public locations in different countries. All portraits are given free to them.  The process has generated an opportunity for artists to meet local people and share some perspective with them.The context of this creative process constituted a relationship of man and community and convey ordinary people to be part of the art process toward multi-dimension of its approach. Moreover, it is also strongly emphasize the concept of “Art is for all”.

Work consists of an installation of charcoal drawing of guests/visiters’ back portraits and the artists portraits in crayon, sculptures, video on monitor, Photographs, maps of relationship, etc.

Powell Station, San Francisco, CA, November 2010

To watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiPayHB-2XA 

This project is made possible by the Fellowship Award of the Asian Cultural Council, New York in 2010.
Photographed by Jaturakorn Pinpech (at Battery Park, NY),Keiko Kuramata (at Powell Station, CA)

On Adaptation no.1

Year: 2009

Dimension: 48 x 27 inches

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photo


Watch the On Adaptation video performance (Alternative Version 2011):

Tension E

 

Year: 2010

Dimension: 280 x 210 cm.

Medium: PE Plastic

Tension E was a collaborative work of jiandyin. In relation to drawing process, the artists held a square plate together while push and pull the plate without restraint to overlay each layer of colourful melt plastic line fed by PE injection machine. Hence, the work was constructed from tension and accord between them.

Tension E was supported by Siam Cement Group Company Thailand

On Adaptation photograph series

Title: On Adaptation, photograph series no.1

Site: Marin County, CA

Year: 2010

Dimension: set of 4 photographs, 24 x 17 inches each

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photos

Title: On Adaptation, photograph series no.2

Site: Golden Gate viewpoint, CA

Year: 2010

Dimension: set of 4 photographs, 24 x 17 inches each

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photos

Title: On Adaptation, photograph series no.5

Site: Monument Valley, Utah/Arizona

Year: 2010

Dimension: 36 x 48 inches

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photo

Title: On Adaptation, photograph series no.3

Site: Hollywood Sign, L.A.

Year: 2010

Dimension: 36 x 48 inches

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photo

Title: On Adaptation, photograph series no.4

Site: Windmills Banning, CA

Year: 2010

Dimension: 36 x 48 inches

Medium: Performance, Digital printed photo

On Adaptation photograph series is part of an ongoing photograph work series that jiandyin has collected since April 2010. Jiandyin brought their Soft Object (2009) to perform at different sites to experience the difference of time, place and how a person is able to adapt oneself to each different conditions.

 

Living Glasses

Dok Mai Hai Khun

Title                          Dok Mai Hai Khun ( Buy 1 flower donate 10 fans)
Year                         2009
Medium                    Floor standing electric fans, Plastic bags, plastic ropes, thread, plastic straps.
Dimension                1.20 x Ø 0.70 x 0.55 cm. (Each), Installation dimensions variable
Link                          http://www.bangkokpost.com/entertainment/art/15920/adding-meaning-to-art 

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