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2015

QUESTION PROJECT

WALKING or SEEING?

INDUSTRIAL RUBBING

YUNG-CHIH LEE

2015/04/24 - 06/25

WALKING or SEEING?

Walking ten thousand steps a day is said to be good for your health. Within such repetitive movement, however, do we simply pass by without noticing or are we capable of discovering something more extraordinary?
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Industrial Rubbing

‘Industrial sense’ and ‘trademark sense’ are a kind of memory connection for Lee. Having grown up in an industrial area, the images of the city he retains in his mind are those of a persistent and monotonous landscape of factories, and the various shapes and colors of the signs, logos, and billboards that accompanied them. Using these signboards and trademarks as objects of reproduction, the method of copy printing has become a way for Lee to express emotional dependence on these sites. He embraces a celebratory attitude whilst engaging in this ritual, establishing both a personal commemoration of past cityscapes and a means of both mourning and preserving values which are slowly fading into the past. Once symbols endowed with the prosperity of the times, these now dilapidating factory signs and trademarks are becoming lost amidst the gradual erasure of modernization; indeed, to the modern mindset they appear to be urban cultural relics left to languish alone in some dark corner. However, through his actions, the artist creates a connection point between image memory and his copy prints - pirated reproductions made under the pretext of “sharing” - which allows him to replicate the values signified within these symbols. In this way, Lee does not simply duplicate the names and logos of these late-modern industries, but at the same time he is able to reproduce the urban fabric of the city they helped to shape. The works thus become a way to transfer the historical value and meaning of these symbols as gifts for future generations.

ARTIST

YUNG-CHIH LEE

Yung-Chih Lee was born in 1979. He holds a master’s degree in New Media Art from the Taipei National University of the Arts, and now works as a freelance film editor and artist. His creations often use the displacement and misappropriation of art forms and life design to engage in aesthetic and cultural criticism. Lee has won such awards as the Kaohsiung Awards Observers Special Award and New Taipei City Award Merit Award. His works have been exhibited in venues spanning Taiwan and Singapore. He was invited to participate in the Biennale Jogja 2019 and in the 2020 Taipei Fine Art Museum exhibition The Secret South: from Cold War Perspective to Global South in Museum Collection.

EVENT


VQ or Visual Quotient – A Reading List

2015.05.06 l Architect Grace Cheung l The connections and diversity of image-based thinking varies from that of textual inspiration. The act of reading is led by vision, and inspiration can be obtained through the interpretation of images, which in turn gives rise to various creative possibilities and ideas. Most of these media materials come from personal observation and accumulation, whether they be habitual or sudden occurrences or associations born from language. The inspiration that accompanies and drives us is often the most overlooked in life, but it may be our most energetic source of creative inspiration.

URBANMATIC

2015.04.29 l Architect Grace Cheung l As an architect, Grace Cheung considers herself a front-line worker who is often asked, “Why is Taipei such an ugly city?” From an architect’s perspective, a city’s architectural beauty cannot be determined based on the exterior of just a few buildings. Many phenomena are formed by the cities themselves. A creative city should embrace these “strange” and “unfamiliar” characteristics, and lead society in finding the beauty within them.
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