Project Glocal 2014: Transi(en)t Taipei - Curatorial Notes

(Author: Dayang Yraola; this article is for the panel discussion on Mar 29th in DAC, Taipei)

Introduction

Project Glocal Transi(en)t is first and foremost a circumstance-engineering project to bring creative people together in a committed conversation for the purpose of expounding their relationship or their connections. Residency is the circumstance. And collaborative art production is the conversation.

In this residency, the visiting artists are situated in conditions that are not familiar to them. It was hypothesized that unfamiliarity to the environment, situation and culture, would give them more opportunities to explore or more challenges to conquer.

Project Glocal 2014: Transi(en)t TPE - Artist-in-residency program as conversation

(Author: Dayang Yraola; this article is for the Thematic Colloquy on Mar 17th, 2014 in Taipei)

Artist-in-residency programs are supposed to broaden the artists’ creative horizon in the spirit of immersion. Being with and within an unfamiliar, how does one say “can we talk about us?” This is the gist of my presentation this afternoon. I would like to take-off with three keywords: immersion, unfamiliar and us.

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We loosely use the term immersion to generally refer

• to being within a cause, an issue, a culture, a society, a people
• to becoming one of them, sharing their position; which extends to reflecting on your position; or simply having a sufficient grasp of positions in causes, issues, culture, society, people

Project Glocal 2014: Transi(en)t TPE - Curator Dayang Yraola's Video Introduction

(Author: Dayang Yraola + No Man's Land)

This video is made for the Meeting No Man's Land x Project Glocal 亞洲城市串流 on March 7, 2014 for Dayang Yraola's Project Glocal 2014: Transi(en)t TPE, co-hosted by No Man's Land(數位荒原) / Digital Art Foudation(數位藝術基金會).

本影片是策展人雅洛拉(Dayang Yraola)為3月7日晚間在tamtamART Taipei的數位荒原見面會，所錄製的Project Glocal亞洲城市串流計劃相關簡介。Project Glocal亞洲城市串流是由數位荒原(No Man's Land)／數位藝術基金會(DAF)共同舉辦。

Project Glocal亞洲城市串流策展人：達鴦•雅洛拉（Dayang Yraola）

CURATOR

Dayang YRAOLA | 達鴦•雅洛拉 [Manila]

Dayang YRAOLA (b.1976, Manila) is a curator, writer and cultural resources manager. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philippine Studies majoring in Literature and Art Studies, and a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of the Philippines. She was an arts associate of the National Art Gallery Singapore through Singapore International Foundation in 2010 and a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council in 2012. Her most recent curatorial work is Jose Maceda Projects: Listen to my Music (U.P. Jorge Vargas Museum, 2013) and an on-going work titled Project Glocal BKK-HK-MNL-SG (2011-2015). She is over-all coordinator of Laon-Laon, an international network of music research centers in Asia, since 2008. She currently works as an Archivist/Collection Manager at the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology.

達鴦•雅洛拉（Dayang YRAOLA）1976年出生於馬尼拉，是一位獨立策展人、自由作家及文化資源經營者。她在菲律賓大學取得藝術學士學位，主修文學與藝術研究，以及博物館研究碩士學位。2010年獲得新加坡國際基金會的新加坡國家藝廊的藝術助理資格，同時也是亞洲文化理事會2012年的受贊助者。除了最新的策展《 Jose Maceda Projects: Listen to my Music》以外，也持續《Project Glocal BKK-HK-MNL-SG》2011年到2015年的亞洲城市串聯工作，從2008年起還擔任國際性的亞洲音樂研究中心網路 Laon-Laon的總統籌。她目前是菲律賓大學民族音樂學中心的檔案／收藏主任。

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