【跨‧社‧會─設計+ X藝術+】CROSS-Design+ X Art+ 

 

 

 

2016年元旦，臺北世界設計之都（World Design Capital ®，WDC）正式開跑！接下來的一整年，臺北市將透過許多與設計相關的展覽、活動、和方案，向全世界展現，臺北是一個不斷提升的城市（Adaptive City）。「設計之都」所訴求和伸張的，是該城市在經濟、社會、文化與環境發展面向的創新設計與應用，並以創新的「設計思考」來解決社會和生活中的各種問題。在此，超越政府與民間、專業與外行、機構與個人之分，建構一種常態、密集、雙向、互動、對話的網路，肯定是打造臺北成為設計之都的重要關鍵。

 

World Design Capital ® (WDC) officially begins in Taipei as the clock strikes midnight into the 2016 New Year's Day! This means an array of design related exhibitions, events, and projects will be unfolding in Taipei throughout the year for the world to see, with the Adaptive City Taipei on a continual stride to elevate itself. The mission and purpose of WDC is to encourage the application of innovative designs in the city’s economic, social, cultural, and environmental developments, and to use innovative “design-based thinking” to solve different social and everyday problems. By transcending beyond dividing barriers between government and nongovernmental sectors, professional and amateurs, institutions and individuals and by constructing a consistent, intensive, two-way, interactive, and communicative network, these factors are bound to be critical points as Taipei transforms into a design capital.   

 

 

 

英文的Cross具有多重和正反的意涵，正如它可同時意會成十字架或十字路一般，前者指涉一種絕對的信仰，是向心性的；但後者指涉四個不同的路向，是離心性的。Cross可以是觀念與行動相互激盪的交會與對話，也可能是音樂交響般的平行與對位；在今天這個字常被用來描述跨越自我與本位的思維、跨越既有框架和邊界的作為，乃至於更積極跨域探索和跨界整合的發展計劃和行動。今日社會如此多元、現實環境如此紛雜，當代日益發達的各種社群，有不少是起因於一種主動關注社會的念力，和集思廣益解決問題的願景。這些跨家庭背景、教育程度、社會行業、…的社群成員，共同興問的是：「世代交替下的我們，能夠擁有什麼?應該如何面對當下與思考未來?」

 

The word “cross” holds multiple and contrasting meanings; For example, it can be used to mean the crucifix or an intersection, crossroad, with the former representing an absolute form of faith, which is quite centripetal;However, the latter indicates paths of four different directions, which holds centrifugal dynamics. “Cross” can also be used to represent conceptual and action-based interactions and dialogues, but at the same time, it can also indicate parallel and aligned arrangements like a symphonic musical composition. The word is also frequently used today to convey thoughts that transcends beyond the Self and the original position, with actions initiated that cross over conventions and boarders, extending to include developmental projects and actions through assertive cross-domain explorations and cross­-disciplinary integrations. Today’s society is very diverse and complex, and many different communities are rising to prominence in the contemporary era, with many driven by their determination to assertively care for our society and to come together to think of solutions for problems we are facing. Members in these communities come from different familial, educational, and social backgrounds, and they all seem to be thinking about the same thing: “What do we, those living in this generation-crossing era, have, and how should we face what’s in front of us and also think about the future?”

 

 

 

本展以CROSS【跨‧社‧會─設計+ X藝術+】為命題，希望呈現當代不同領域創作者，將跨越自我與跨社群交會的理念，發展成不同社會實踐的案例和成果。當藝術家與設計者把創意思維從紙上作業發展成一種社會實踐，在人與人之間，在人與社會之間，在獨處與共聚之間，他們所能發揮扮演的，很可能就是一種改變歷史、翻轉現實的力量！參展藝術家包括：蕭有志、林磐聳、美麗台灣關懷協會+張嘉洳、王九思x BLANQ、justfont、東海醫院、蕭紫菡、active creative design、王仁傑X徐秋宜、楊北辰、簡學義+ syncu's +竹間聯合建築師事務所+狠主流多媒體、國立臺灣師範大學設計系創作團隊、當代館街大歡囍策展團隊等。

 

The overarching theme of this exhibition is CROSS-Design+ X Art+, and the objective is to present artists from different contemporary disciplines and for them to transcend beyond themselves and to be involved in different communities, with their endeavors resulting in different social practices. When artists and designers’ ideas are transformed into social practices engaging in people, between people and society, or evoking thoughts in individuals or collective groups, they then have the potential to become forces that can alter history and transform reality! The contributing artists for this exhibition include: Yu-Chih HSIAO, Apex Lin,Pang-Soong, Beautiful Taiwan Care Association + Chang Chia-Ju, Jeffrey Wang x BLANQ, justfont, DHH studio, Tzu-Han HSIAO, active creative design, Ren-Jye WANG x Chiu-I HSU, Pei-Chen YANG, Chien Hsueh-Yi + syncu's + Chien Architects & Associates+VERY MAINSTREAM STUDIO, National Taiwan Normal University’s Department of Design, and MOCA, Taipei Fun Street, Street Fun curatorial team.

 

 

 

社會是一種參與的過程，藝術家們透過設計與展覽，分享美好的想像與經驗，企盼本展讓大家對於當代藝術的跨界跨域有更多的體驗，並透過跨社群的交會擦出更多更燦爛的火花。

 

A participatory process is embodied by society, and through design and exhibition, beautiful imaginations and experiences created by artists are able to be shared. We hope that this exhibition can offer to our audience diverse experiences with cross-disciplinary contemporary art, and for the cross-community interactions to spark splendid reactions.