SLow
Building the performative body
11:00 - 17:00 | Passage (Free Entrance)
SLow is a performance that shows the defenseless human body surrounded by machines, systems, etc. Karel noticed that in Taiwan, like in other Asian countries, there are strict rules people (have to) live by, and that these rules can not be easily put aside. Slowly but imperturbable the boy in the video follows his own path. Using an invisible electric tackle he drags himself in an even tempo through the Taiwanese urban landscape, marking in an entertaining and wondrous way the contrast between the route of the defenseless human body and the hectic world surrounding it.
Karel van Laere NL 1988
My work is best described as a combination between performance and video art. Due to my mixed background in performing and visual arts, I work in a multidisciplinary way. My work often begins with fundamental questions, such as: What would it be like if, just like a computer, you could switch off your body every now and then? Or, what does it feel like to be dependent on a machine or on others? The search for possibilities to realise my often extreme ideas becomes part of the work. The research and the post-show discussions with the public are an important part of it, too.
DoP 李少哲
Line Producer 凌瑋隆
Assistence 莊皓巖 & Trixie Ballesteros Special thanks 莊陳保, 鄭敬儒, 葉柏青, 孫斌立, 劉錫權, 陳愷璜 , 榮工工程公司 關渡施工所, 台北市北投區關渡宮, 台北市關渡國小
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