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City on the Move Art Festival

City on the Move Art Festival
From November 9 to 19, the fourth City on the Move art festival will take place at the Taipei Children’s Recreation Center theme area. The event is an attempt at understanding urban culture through artistic realizations. The year’s theme, From Encounter to Encounter: Expounding the Playground will take place in an amusement park. The same venue in different cities around the world resides in exactly the same place – the childhood experiences and memories of many people. The art critic, Jeff Kelly, suggests that a place takes shape in a certain geographical locale through the close merging of the values of several people and the collective values of the general public. The artists taking part in this exhibition will make in-depth surveys of different aspects of the city’s magnetism. They will also explore the meaning of “the playground” through alterations in time and space, using digital media art and installation art as central motifs with site-specific creations. As the artists undertake their creations at the Taipei Children's Recreation Center, they must prepare to address the cultural layer of the general public and its commonly held values. Through such actions, events, objects, forms, shapes, spaces, places, and people will collectively constitute a single subject, and will establish a dialogue and a set of mutual connections. Six artists will take part in this exhibition through individual projects, including Hiraki Sawa’s “The Other Place,” Paul Sermon’s “Hidden Voice: Memoryscape,” Fabien Lerat’s “Revolution of an Azimuth,” Tang Huang-chen’s “Encounter at the Amusement Park,” Wang Te-yu’s “Calisthenics No.57,” and Maggie Liao’s “One Moment.” The Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs invites everyone to take part in From Encounter to Encounter: Expounding the Playground. For further information on this exhibition, please visit the website: http://playground.deoa.org.tw/