《Don’t Brush off What You See》

In the age of uncertainties, there is always a quest to search for the departure that defines the mo-ment of "here and now" to activate the relation and the conversation with the real world, in order to investigate the undetermined and the unknown. It is not only about marking a locus in the spacetime, but a conjunction of various parameters conditioned by the ever-changing real world. This exhibition attempt to create a concurrent opportunity to map out how art production could be agitated by the critical disaster of Fukushima as its political-economical context, and develop questions and strategies to comprehend our contemporaneousness, from which the intersubjectivity between art and society may be revealed with remarks anew to transcend boundaries of reality. Don't Brush off What You See is a curatorial experiment to weave artistic production into social m-ovement to shift the sociality of art. Quite opposite to the form social intervention, it is a social practice of artists as citizens to participate in the ongoing social debates with their own artistic research and practice that address reality with different visibility. They may reshapeand diminish the conventions and collective ideologies of a demonstration, and create dynamic flux in social movement.Rooted and inspired by the global effect of Fukushima disaster, and the energy policy that Taiwan confronts with serious crisis, this project addresses to our shaken understanding of the world's status after the incident, the visual spectacle media reproduces from a catastrophe and above all, the relation that art transforms and bridges to our ways of seeing the reality. In a world jammed with political, economical and environmental crisis, there are more and more institutions and power structures generated to undermine individual freedom in the society. Therefore, the role of art becomes more and more significant in defending the territory of discussion and the alternative possibilities to imagine and change the reality. Participating artists in this project generously share their ideas on nuclear disaster, sustainable energy and composition of social and urban structure as public tools and a wild card for the next dialogues as action.