不眠山 Seeking for Absent Forms in Forests —蔡昱廷個展 Yu Ting Tsai Solo Exhibition
11/08 @ 10:00 上午 - 11/29 @ 5:00 下午
展覽介紹 Exhibition Introduction
夜晚的靜謐是登山者出發的時刻，像是夢遊一般地闖進黑暗的森林中。
約莫七年的時間，藝術家作為高山嚮導在臺灣廣袤的山林中持續攀爬，見證過生命的殞落、攀登的迷戀、光怪陸離的故事又或是在山林中看見臺灣複雜歷史的感嘆，那長時間住在山中與外界斷聯的日子，總能有許多體悟。
山林不僅隱藏文明發展的遺忘痕跡，也創造了某種中介地帶，被時間掩蓋的歷史、記憶、人類的慾望與失蹤的人彷彿化作幽魂，徘徊在蒼翠的樹影中。
展覽試圖聚焦於『失蹤』作為一種存在的狀態，山中聚落遺址難以接近的失蹤、黑夜山林攀爬身體與意識解離的失蹤狀態以及日治時期至民國初期，威權轉移下文化銜接的模糊地帶，它們同樣位於中介地帶之中。觀者與藝術家，身在其中，失蹤的存在狀態，一切都在巨大的循環中息息相關。同時展覽探索觀者觀看的出神狀態，意識跨越時間線，關於日本殖民、山林產業與臺灣人民之間逐漸消散的集體記憶，被山林的異質空間所包覆。
The silence of night marks the hour when mountain-climbers depart. Like sleepwalking, they intrude into the darkened forests.
For seven years, having witnessed the final moments in life, a mountain guide as an artist is climbing continuously in the thick and dense forests in Taiwan. There exists the allure of ascending and the bizarre tales and the sighs of history through the dense woodlands. In those long days, being isolated from the world outside, the artist found countless revelations.
The mountains not only hide the forgotten traces of civilization but also forge an “Liminal Zone”. Time-buried history, faded memories, human desires, and the missing humans being specters have drifted in the shadows of ancient trees.
This exhibition makes a focus of “disappearance” as a state of existence: the elusive disappearance of inaccessible mountain ruins, the dissociative state of body and mind while climbing through the nocturnal forest, and the ambiguous zones of cultural transition from the Japanese colonial era to the early Republic period. All reside within this liminal zone. The artist and the observer dwell in this state of absence, where all things are bound within a grand cycle.
The exhibition also explores the entranced state of the viewer, in which consciousness transcends the boundaries of time, enveloped by different space of forests in the mountains. It reflects on the gradually fading collective memories of Japanese colonization, forest industries, and Taiwanese people shrouded within the ethereal woods.
藝術家簡介 About the Artist
蔡昱廷 Yu Ting Tsai
1999年生，目前於北藝大新媒體藝術碩士進修。曾獲2025桃源國際藝術獎、2024臺灣美術新貌獎、2024西班牙馬德里錄像藝術節放映等。
創作語彙多結合自然、科技、歷史等不同知識領域，以此建構多重角度的觀看。媒材跨及裝置、錄像、與攝影。
創作核心源自於生命經驗，自我、精神、地方、歷史的挖掘與辨認，以拓墣學觀點觀看個體，藝術家走入作品之中，再相性不同的歷程中觀看經驗在個體作用的狀態以及多重主體性的形塑過程。
Yu Ting Tsai(b.1999, Taipei, Taiwan) is an artist who lives and works in Taipei, currently pursuing a master’s degree in New Media Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. His major awards include the 2025 Taoyuan International Art Award (TW), 2024 Taiwan Emerging Art Awards (TW), Festival PROYECTOR 2024(ES), etc.
The vocabulary words used in the work consists of various fields of knowledge, such as nature, technology, and history to construct a multi-perspective viewing. The mediums include installations, videos, and photographs.
The core of the work stems from life experiences, exploring and identifying self, spirits, places, and histories. The individual is viewed from a topological perspective, and the ideas are generated by navigating through different systems and coordinates to interweave a common location in points. The artist enters the work, through different processes, the purposes are to view how these experiences have impacts on the individual and shape multiple subjectivities.
