On Adaptation: the Lost Capital
The 2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival
If on the Margin, Draw a Coordinate project
Venue: Green Island White Terror Memorial Park
Curator: Sandy Lo Hsiu Chih
Directors: Jiandyin
In Association with Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts & Culture
by Awika Samukrsaman, Suphitchaya Khunchamni
Online exhibition:
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The Green Island, a volcanic island in Taiwan which still remains natural and raw, yet, controversially, embraced with a history of an exile colony. Remoteness is geographical fragility that often affects ethnic groups to be marginalized as minorities, social exclusion, local history to become forgotten memories, etc. Apparently, distance creates coldness and variance between opposite points. To develop our aspect towards the marginal situation, how can we aware of not being influenced by social order, capital perspective, etc. but integrate our perception with regard to the unreachable information?
In terms of the contemporary ethnography, the boundary of fact and fiction can be blurred, rather a narrative that goes through observation and interpretation. In order to liberate our notion from the macro level, should all comers from borderlands can be equally counted as marginal people for the island inhabitants? On Adaptation: the Lost Capital project intends to generate a space or interactive art form that audiences, visitors who cross the ocean to the Green Island, can experience the coldness, unstable, and isolated atmosphere of marginal situation within the context of the Green Island White Terror Memorial Park. The setup space or art form hereby will be a fictionalized fact that everyone can access, a process of self-discovery that each individual audience will dynamically establish his/her own narrative to connect a state of fact inside the marginal tendency.
installation of 2-Channel video, colour, sound, loops.
On Adaptation: the Lost Capital Excerpt
List of projects and events that the On Adaptation: the Lost Capital was screened:
2022 – 2023, participated in the Lumbung Film, a repository of film and video works by lumbung members and lumbung artists in Documenta Fifteen.
After documenta fifteen, the collectives and artists continue to curate film screenings in different localities. Some lists of events that the On Adaptation was selected to show:
– Lumbung Film in Basel, February 24-26 2023, curated by Iris Amleh and Hamza Badran, screening at the Amore art space
– Lumbung Film in Belgium, December 2-4 2022, organized by Subversive Film, screening at Cultural Centre of Strombeek
– Lumbung Film in the Philippines, November 25, 2022, organized by RESBAK x MayDay Multimedia x Lost Frames x Ateneo Art Gallery Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo De Manila University
2021, Trans-southeast Asia triennial, as part of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture with jiandyin, Oct – Dec 2021, curated by Cathleen Siming Pan, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts