Off the Ground
▎The “Off the Ground" project, with the theme of site-specific perspective, was designed to level “art" with respect to regional influences. In fact, this problem (Oriental thinking, site-specific perspective recognition problem) has long been known, but it is also a problem that is often overlooked. The word “art" was set by Western countries through the foundation of Western art history, and its influence still affects all areas of art today. This question, “What is art?" has persisted, and it remains a challenge to reconcile the regional influences of art.
▎It is typically large cities that strive to meet Western European standards, and they tend to recognize and accept more individuality than smaller cities. Consequently, young artists must endure competition and high economic costs, and smaller cities experience a loss of young population. Additionally, there is a problem with cultural infrastructure being concentrated in the metropolitan area. The resulting regional power affects the selection of works at international art festivals such as the Biennale, and local power arises between local and metropolitan artists.
▎Through this project, Spaceium aims to find a way to have an objective view of local art diversity. The primary goal of this joint project is to recognize and share the value of each region’s art, free from the criteria of evaluating art based on the most influential Western art history frame. Rather, we seek to examine the perception of art in small cities, large cities, and the world.
Spaceium
▎Established in May 2020, Space “ㅁ" is located in Seongnam-dong, Ulsan, and is a non-profit art space that supports experimental art and culture. It supports artists who work based on original thinking and experimental spirit, regardless of their age, career, or trends. Space “ㅁ" accepts project exhibition proposals from artists and planners who work in accordance with the above contents, and the proposals are screened by contemporary artists based on the direction of this space.
☛ Email. spacemium2020@gmail.com
☛ web. https://jeloshy.wixsite.com/website
☛ 울산광역시 중구 새즈믄해거리 35 3층 / 울산광역시 중구 반구정11길 32 3층 35
Saejeumeunhae-geori, Jung-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
32, Bangujeong 11-gil, Jung-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
OFF THE GROUND計劃
▎以特定場域（site-specific）的視角為主題，旨在讓藝術與區域影響相平等。事實上這個問題－東方思維，特定場域視角認知問題，早已為人所知，但也是一個容易被忽略的問題。在「什麼是藝術？」這個問題中，「藝術」這個詞是由西方國家所建立起的西方藝術史基礎後設定的，至今仍然影響藝術各领域。
▎大城市試圖效仿西歐標準，由於大城市比地方城市更承認和接受個體差異，在年輕藝術家必須競爭和承受高經濟成本的情況下，造成地方城市的年輕人口流失，文化基礎設施也集中在大都市地區。由此產生的區域落差也會影響各國際藝術展（如雙年展）的作品選擇，在地方和大都市藝術家之間產生地方差異。
▎Spaceium 試圖通過這個計畫，找到一種能客觀看待當地藝術多樣性的方法。這個合作計畫的目的，是遠離藉由最有影響力的西方藝術史框架所評估藝術的標準，以非城市、世界對藝術的感知，去認識並分享每個地區藝術的價值。
Spacemium
▎Spacemium 成立于2020年5月，位於蔚山的城南洞，是一個支持實驗藝術和文化的非營利藝術空間，支持基於原創性思维和實驗精神的藝術家，不區分年龄、職業和主流與否。Spacemium接受符合上述内容的藝術家和策劃人員提出的計畫、展覽提案，由當代藝術家根據這個空間的方向進行篩選。
☛ Email. spacemium2020@gmail.com
☛ web.
☛ 울산광역시 중구 새즈믄해거리 35 3층 / 울산광역시 중구 반구정11길 32 3층 35
Saejeumeunhae-geori, Jung-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
32, Bangujeong 11-gil, Jung-gu, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
▎由韓國蔚山 Spacemium 於2022年年初招集「OFF THE GROUND」計畫，將在2022年12月陸續於多國展開，包含韓國、日本、臺灣（新北、臺南）、泰國、杜拜等藝術空間與團體發佈作品。
展覽期間藝術家在匿名情況下於各單位空間輪流展出，討論未具名情況下展覽與作品是如何被觀看與感知。
▎臺灣最終站於新北永富五號的展覽將持續到2023.03.26（日）。
▌日期 Date
2023.3.10 Fri.-3.26 Sun. (from Tuesday to Sunday)
▌時間 Time
14:00-19:00(Taiwan time)
▌座談 Forum
2023.3.15 Wed. 19:30(Taiwan time)
▌講者 Speaker
涂維政｜國立臺北藝術大學美術系專任助理教授暨藝術家
Tu Wei Cheng｜Assistant Professor of Fine arts department of Taipei National University of Ats.
▌策展人 Curator
張舫涵｜永富五號負責人（2019-2023）
Chang Fang Han｜Curator of Yong Fu No.5 ( 2019-2023 )
▌藝術家 Artists
永富五號參展藝術家資訊 Artist of Yong Fu No.5（點擊展開 Click to open）
▌張文恭 JHANG WUN GONG
Jhang Wun-Gong was born in Taiwan in 1982, is living now in Taipei. He is very interested in questions that do not have specific answers and never stop for searching and colliding while exploring the world. He often changes his own thoughts during the process of making the art creation, this repeating dialectics, and to think what is the meaning of to think become his amusing routine.
Jhang Wun Gong’s artworks focus on the things that contradictory but also accustomed in the environment and in all kinds of situations. The easily to be ignored ambiguous state, for artists, it is the way as the world it is.
Jhang Wun-Gong uses the concept of sketching to find the potential meaning of the daily life. By taking actions and poetic methods to rethink the relation between the environment, the time and the space, to make the object to have another chance to be viewed different way by breaking the way of our old thinks.
1982年生於台灣，現居台北。對沒有特定答案的問題非常感興趣，在探索世界的過程中從不停止尋找和碰撞。在藝術創作的過程中，他經常反芻自己的想法反覆的辯證，自我思辯「思考的意義」成為他有趣的日常。
張文恭的作品聚焦於環境中以及各種情境下那些矛盾卻又習以為常的事物。對藝術家而言，那些容易被忽略的曖昧狀態，正是世界本來的樣貌。
他運用素描的概念來尋找日常生活的潛在意義。透過行動和詩意的方法重新思考環境、時間與空間的關係，藉由打破我們舊有的思考方式，讓物件有機會以不同的方式被觀看。
▌李瑜芳 Fafaa Lee
1994，TAIWAN
Objects that fall behind the times in a fast-developing society and their curious states are of my interest. In my practice, I attempt to unfold such apparition-like existences found in the vast space of the world and stream of time and search for appropriate situations to place them.
I proceed with the discovery of unnoticed, soon-to-be-eliminated elements in various spaces in order to analyse the relationship between oneself, others and historical vacancies.
那些在快速發展的社會裡沒有跟上時代的物件，是我所關注城市裡有趣的狀態，將這樣的存在比擬為幽魂，在廣袤的世界和時間長河中與其相遇，嘗試展開幽魂的過去與未來，並尋找一個適當的位置來安放這些幽魂成為我的創作。
持續探索在空間裡不被注意、即將被淘汰的事物，從中試圖解析自身與他者和歷史空缺之間的關係。
▌地點 Site
永富五號 Yong Fu No.5，新北市淡水區中正路18巷5號
No. 5, Ln. 18, Zhongzheng Rd., Tamsui Dist., New Taipei City
☛ web.
永富五號參展作品
Artists & works info of Yong Fu No.5
▌Environmental Sketching Project – Walking state
Year｜2018
Dimensions / Length｜5minutes
Environmental sketching project take the concept of sketching to face environment directly, painting actions and be in the environment to create. Trying to transfer time and space through the forms of sketching.
Using contour turning 3D into 2D, to think about space itself and self’s state of existence, by putting it into action, its create the meaning let the objects to be seeing again.
▌TAMSUI RIVER GIFT SHOP
Year｜2022
Dimensions / Length｜8 minutes
Tamsui River is mostly considered as a tourist site, and the tourists expect to find local characteristics in the souvenir shops. I chose the unknown historical attractions that nearby, and made them into souvenirs. By doing so, I seek to overturn people’s stereotype of this very place.
▌Off the ground Partners 展覽夥伴
Absence Space (Taiwan)
Bayt Al Mamzar (Dubai)
Colloquium (Japan)
EXOTIC QUIXOTIC (Tailand) 泰國藝文推廣平台
spacemium (Korean)
Yong Fu No.5 (Taiwan)
ZingVDO (Tailand)
永富五號 Yong Fu No.5 