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Yu Cheng-Ta | Tell Me What You Want
Screening
Yu Cheng-Ta | Tell Me What You Want
14 Nov 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 36 Genthiner Str.
- Berlin
Berlin - 10785
- Germany
Taipei-based artist Yu Cheng-Ta's premiere in Berlin from 7pm to 9pm on 8th November 2018. This series of screening about Asian video art is organized by Ida Yang and hosted by Société.
About
Tell Me What You Want
Yu Cheng-Ta
2017
62 minutes
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About The Work:
“Tell Me What You Want” is about the exchanges of the gazes, desires, friendship, and wanting between a traveler and an exotic culture. This relationship of exchange started when David was on the street in Malate, Manila. He engaged with the marketeers (or “marketings”) on the street as a foreigner, and from this strange encounter, they developed friendships. Owing to the needs of shooting the films, a negotiation as well as transaction came along. The various relationships and processes of exchanges are intertwined with reality, the social network, the diverse desires and imaginative gazes and illusions across cultures local to Malate. From November 2015 to June 2017, David constantly flew to Manila, shifting his identity between traveler, friend and film producer. Via these ambiguous narratives, the complex multiple meanings underneath the cross-cultural appearance is revealed.
In this project, the artist arranges four mockumentaries: “Malate”, “David”, “Joara”, and “The Shop”, which are intertwined, yet independent from one another. Each film symbolizes the products deriving from various peoples, cultures, viewpoints, gazes, and wants. Through the mirror of this alien character “David”, who is the point of intersection between the four films, many of the core issues of this exhibition are exposed. A common greeting, “Tell Me What You Want” refers to the transactional structures on the street of Malate. The artist incorporated the negotiation into the production of the films. He kept experimenting with the social and economic frameworks beneath these relationships of exchange. At the same time, he attempted to draw out the definitions of a friendly transaction from the viewpoints of different cultures, disclose the bias rooted in different nations, and uncover the hidden class consciousness behind the tourism, entertainment and international trade.
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About The Artist:
Yu Cheng-Ta's works are primarily concerned with the human body deformations and activities. In 2008, he received the 1st place of Taipei Arts Award (TFAM, Taipei) and was awarded the Beacon Prize at Art Fair Tokyo in 2012. Yu participated in the 6th Taipei Biennial and was selected as one of the artists to represent Taiwan at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2009, he participated in the Biennial Cuvée 08 at OK center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria, and in 2012, he participated in the 5th International Biennial of Media Art at Experimenta in Melbourne, Australia and Made in Asia Art Festival in Toulouse, France. In 2013, he held a solo exhibition at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and participated in the Asian Art Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; Queens International at Queens Museum in New York, USA. Recently, he held a solo exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and participated in the 2nd CAFA Biennial in Beijing; the 10th Shanghai Biennial in China. In 2015, he participated in the 56th Berlin International Film Festival Forum Expanded. In 2016, his works exhibited at Gwangju Museum of Art and Centre Georges-Pompidou. The newest video work " Tell Me What You Want" (2015-2017) screening at Centre Georges-Pompidou and Charlottenborg Slot in 2018.
Courtesy of the artist and Chi-Wen Gallery
