“Rehearsing the Future” chooses to expand the focus on the concern of the ideal realm of self to the compassion of contemporary issues. Rehearsing the life scenes of home in the near future leads the audience to rehearse a scenario that looks like the future but is actually the current reality of existence. The modern domestic space emerging from the surface of history is undoubtedly shaped by human beings transforming nature through the power of technology and therefore becomes a domesticated environment. The outbreak of the epidemic not only forces one to re-examine the contradictions in the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature but also accelerates the integration of technology into daily life. In today's highly developed society, the high-tech, dust-free, and sterile house has become the model of an ideal home. As a private domain that people desire, it is like a shelter from the crisis of survival. The design tone of this exhibition projects the imagination of the home space, leading the audience to experience the scenario, and reflect on the hidden sense of crisis in the safe protection which we regard as home.
This exhibition invites ten artists from home and abroad to jointly draw the outline of the future. Performances, video installations, three-dimensional installations, digital paintings, paintings, games, and other diversified forms of works are included. The topics and issues involve smart appliances, myths, natural disasters, new resources, health, microbes, beliefs, AI, algorithms, digital clones, metagames... etc. Whether it is the panic caused by the virus or technology, it once again invites us to re-explore the various responses that mankind has taken to survive crises since ancient times. Claude Lévi-Strauss told us that mythical thought is not superstition, but rather the spiritual activity to pursue the order of the universe which leads to the future civilization by the pre-modern society. Nowadays, the technology has brought the belief in progress, changed our consciousness of time, and created the dimension of the future. Despite the anxiety and fear in the face of the incredible forces in the original nature, there always implies the ability to adapt to the changing environment in mankind’s imagination and pursuit of the future. This exhibition will re-examine the coexisting relationships among mankind, nature, and technology. Technology, as an intermediary between mankind and the environment, does not isolate man from environmental threats, but open a gap, so that human and all existing beings in their living environment may redefine each other.
：ALIEN Art · ALIEN Art Centre : Chou Yu-Cheng
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