藝術家 Artists

凱・沃克維亞克 Kay Walkowiak

跨領域藝術Interdisciplinary

奧地利薩爾斯堡文化廳 薦送藝術家

1980年生於薩爾斯堡。除定居創作於維也納之外,亦長年於亞洲地區創作,創作類型不拘,包含跨領域藝術、雕塑、多媒體、新媒材等多有涉獵。具備心理學及哲學背景,擅長以當代藝術為語彙描述創作物件背後的概念性意涵。

駐村成果展《贈與:魂牽夢縈的靈魂》
駐村期間,受蕭壠年度計畫交陪展的啟發,藝術家嘗試提問,那些已逝去的靈魂,他們的精神如何影響現在的人類;例如,以當代藝術而言,杜象可說是20世紀最具影響力的存在。透過一種中西文化對話的方式,藝術家嘗試結合台灣對於鬼魂的詮釋和傳統信仰,以及西方解構主義哲學家德希達提出的「幽靈學」,探討逝去的人們雖已死去,但他們留下的思想如同過往的鬼魂持續影響著現在。

個展包含攝影、影像及裝置作品,從歷史與社會文化的角度,雙重探索精神信仰及真實世界。

Born 1980 in Salzburg. The Vienna-based artist, Walkowiak, has often been travelling to Asia for his art practice for many years. His works broadly cover interdisciplinary art, sculpture, multi-media, and new media art. Equipped with psychology and philosophy background, he specializes in delineating conceptual implications of his creations via vocabulary used in contemporary art.

Exhibition: Given: The Haunting Ghost

In his Given: The Haunting Ghost solo exhibition developed for the Soulangh Cultural Park, the artist Kay Walkowiak approaches the question of how spirits of the past still exist in the present. With the outstanding example of Marcel Duchamp, as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Kay Walkowiak opens up a cultural dialogue between traditional beliefs in ghosts and spirits in Taiwanese culture and the concept of „Hauntology“ by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Hauntology as a nature of being is an idea that inherently embeds the realm of the past in that of the present, the ghosts of the past returning to haunt us.

In an eclectic compilation of new works, Walkowiak sounds out the historical and socio-cultural impact of a belief system in spirits and the virtual layers of reality.

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