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Open Call for the 7th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition in 2020- ANIMA

Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition (TIVA) has been organized biennially since 2008 and has been through a decade to this day, making breakthroughs and ushering in new definitions for images. The year 2020 marks the 7th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition. Artists are welcome aboard!

Entry Deadline?April, 30, 2020 (GMT+8) 23:59
Curator?Eva LIN, Wei YU
Presenter?Chew’s Culture Foundation Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab

The bone weight of individual is measured via the periodical rhythm of the combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches that reflect the rises and falls in life. As we speak of the weight of images, does it also come with an average value, along with an area of variation? In 1994, Susan reported to the police, claiming that her two sons had been kidnapped. With both kids unaccounted for, however, the mother referred to her children in the past tense during an interview. Image as a form of consciousness is as subtle yet fatal as this force of habit in language.

If image viewing is referred as a ritual of hypnosis, the intermediary condition betwixt sober and slumber is the very object we aim to weigh. Even when we are awake at the moment of deep sleep or being wakeful at the time of supposedly hypnotized, what are being played in mind no longer are the visual images on the surface, but the summoned images from consciousness. Upon our bodies taken by images, the consciousnesses to which no flesh has been allocated are restless, whereas the primitive contours of souls are just about to manifest themselves.

As the title of the exhibition, “Anima” derived from Latin refers to “life” as well as “soul”. We are not merely viewing images. We experience images. At the most distracted moment, we can still be aware of the presence of an image. How can an image be perceived when we “unread” it? Or to the extreme, can an image still be established when we “unsee” it? Is there a kind of images that are unreadable? Also, what is it if an image is unseen?