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Even They Never Met
2011-2012
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NIU Chun-Chiang
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
Even They Never Met
2011-2012
secondhand photo duplicate device , secondhand photo , double-channels-video
4x6 inch (82 pieces)
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This is a film in which I portrait 8 people who cross lives.The characters have never met each other before.Through a few photo's given by a stranger,they fabricate the memory of how they unconsciously met.

Since the beginning, my work has often used feminine subject as the target for portrayal. (Femininity does not only refer to gender.) It is a vessel for subject interpellation and substitution. When I'm portraying the subject, what attracts me is the “distance” between the subject and myself. This distance cannot be physically measured. Rather, it is an exchange of the spiritual, a path for mutual empathy.

In the piece called “We'll Meet At 8PM, July 28, 2011” (2011), I also used “meeting” as the entry point. In it, the meeting place changed from fictional to real. But in the piece called “Even They Never Met” (2012), the meeting place is a place that had never existed. The Verbal replaces the corporeal entity. Compared with my earlier pieces “ When I getting older with you“(2009) and “10 Minutes Left” (2007), the idea of “meeting“ can be said to have evolved into a “mutual gaze”. These two pieces.. are both asking: “What kind of gaze is real?”

Maybe it is because I have felt deeply about the experience of that kind of exchange, that's why the interpellation always comes in different forms.

ARTISTS
5 artworks / 82 exhibition
Photographic Art , New Media Art , Installation Art , Video Art
Niu Jun Qiang was born in 1983. He graduated with MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts. His artworks mainly focus on the video, film and mixed media installations. During the creative process, Niu has investiga ...
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KEYWORDS
NIU Chun-Chiang, 2013, New Media Art
NIU Chun-Chiang, 2007-2008, Photographic Art
NIU Chun-Chiang, 2009, Video Art
NIU Chun-Chiang, 2013, New Media Art