The “Half-Field Project” is an imaginative art project by artist Cai Guojie. Starting from the “Linear Store” implemented in Taipei in 2004, Cai Guojie borrowed the land development and sales model to sell the boundary line between the land sections in the world. It is a borderline that is a mixture between various “spaces of power” and “spaces of consumption”. In the game of selling the borderline, the “Half-Field Project” suggests a solemn concept: the space of power and the jurisdictional boundary. Different from his previous “Half-Field Project”, the artist’s current solo exhibition “Tak Chun Art Garden” in the Macau Art For All Society records and exhibits the continuous re-circulation process after the sale of “a land line” in front of the Tak Chun Macau Art Garden. “Tak Chun Art Garden” is a brand new attempt in the entire “Half-Field Project”.
The artist gives up the production control of the work and makes the work flow and spread in nature. As long as humans recognize the exchange of such forms, this project will continue to circulate over time, self-generating, never ending, and is “nomadic” in its nature: the flow of decentralization (de-centering) process and the breeding of aesthetic characteristics. This flowing line in “Tak Chun Art Garden” has become the artist’s determination to resist the structure of the old rule of space, “Deterritorialising” in nomadism, flowing and spreading. This is a new and profound aesthetic attempt.
Cai was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 2010, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Taiwan University of the Arts with a master’s degree. In 2018, he studied at the School of Intermedia Arts, China Academy of Art, a doctoral student. Now he lives and works in Macau and Hangzhou. He believes that art is to create a description of differences, and artists cannot give up the power of art in the name of art. The “Half-Field Plan” is a deed to mark the inter-space space and explores the concept of “power field” in art. With the series of contents of the “Half-Field Plan” the choice is power-giving; mutual understanding is the game of power. Cai Guojie’s focus is on the transfer of rights from “concepts” to “entities” and the ownership of the gaps between boundaries.
At this point, the “bound power” and the “power of desire” of the artificial boundary, these powers can help to oppose the “infinity” of the opposite – that is, the freedom we desire. He had his work exhibited in New York, Liverpool and Hampstead, France, Paris, Germany, Berlin, Italy, Florence, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Portugal, Lisbon, Istanbul, Tokyo ,Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries and places.
When: September 21–October 25, 2019
Where: Macau Art Garden, 265 Avenida do Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, Macau
How much: Free admission
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