Romantic Geography：A field research and exhibition practice on distribution of space

Curator: Zoe Yeh Co-Curator: Goto Oko Artist: Cooking at Frontline, Chai-Ruon Hsu, Jun Kitazawa, Fumiko Kobayashi, Satoshi Nishizawa, Chien-Hao Wang, Jyun-Yang Wen

Landscape, hydrology, climate, and all the factors that compose the known meaning of geography, allows people to grow. However, what structures modern life is mainly the human behavior. Through artistic approaches, the exhibition tries to decode the drama in contemporary society and provide an alternative experience to the metropolitan framework. The works reflect the human relationships to the city, ranging from individual, community, and environment. Kobayashi Fumiko reconsiders the connection of body to artificial surroundings, providing new description to the functions in the city. Nishizawa Satoshi compares the living of young generation in both Tokyo and Taipei, trying to observe the sceneries composed of layered time and things in their urbanite ways of living.. Chien-hao Wang questions the imagination of "ideal living" and indicates the influence from mass media and consumerism. Starting from personal experiences, some works also react to the society. With the aging of population and shift of housing needs, Kitazawa Jun suggests the new approach to housing complex and build up the neighborhood identity. Jyun-yang Wen focuses on the minority in the city and creates a hotel for the homeless people. Cooking at Frontline is inspired by current political situation in Taiwan, with rapid demonstrations and movements taking place, and they try to provide solutions and new perspectives to street life. Development of city always evades the space for other species. In Chai-ruon Hsu's work, she discusses the migration of trees and people depending on human's behavior and tries to raise people's conscious to trees in city environment. With the continuing of each projects, exhibition can only be a periodic presentation, and hope to cause more attention to distribution of space in cities.