“The Oceans and the Interpreters”, are the series projects, started from 2020, which focus on “the global south”. “The Oceans and the Interpreters” across various forms, include exhibition, residency, research, screening and writing, which aim to rethink the global perspective of the South. “The Interpreters”, by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, depicted the oversea students from different backgrounds, and how they interact with their new founded federal state after they returned home. The novel shows us how these characters deal with their internal conflict, between the globalized newly view point and childhood memories.
To promote cross-Atlantic countries’ artists, “The Oceans and the Interpreters” conducts “Interpreter’s Screening Project”, in 2020 with VAN Lagos, in 2021with 14N61W and curator Caryl Ivrisse-Crochemar from Martinique. The final presentation in autumn 2022 will take place in Hong-gah Museum.
Artworks
❑Ljaljeqelan Patadalj, Rackman, Taiwan (Phase 1)
❑Deborah Jack, the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will heal what ails us, Sint Maarten (Phase 1)
❑Billy Gerard Frank, Second Eulogy: Mind The Gap, Grenada (Phase 1)
❑Nicolas Derné, Overflow, Martinique (Phase 1& 2)
❑Pauline & Mathilde Bonnet, Les boundeuses, Guadeloupe (Phase 1& 2)
❑Tamika Galanis, When the Lionfish Came, The Bahamas (Phase 1 & 3 )
❑Liu Chihhung, Sea of trees,Taiwan (Phase 1 & 2 & 3)❑John Vea, Tribute to Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, Tonga/New Zealand, (Phase 1 & 2 & 3)
❑Jean-Ulrick Désert, Gloria, Haiti ((Phase 2)
❑Au Sow Yee, Sang Kancil, Hang Tuah, Raja Bersiong, Bomoh, the Missing Jet and Others , Malaysia/Taiwan (Phase 2)
❑ Wu Chi Yu, Refraction, Taiwan (Phase 2)
❑Minia Biabiany, tolli tolli, Sint Maarten (Phase 2& 3 )
❑Jean-Ulrick Désert, Bling, Haiti (Phase 3)
❑Jeremie Priam, Expression de deconfinement, Martinique (Phase 3)
❑Posak Jodian, Lakec: A very Simple River, Taiwan (Phase 3)
❑Kent Chan, To the Eastward,Singapore (Phase 3)
Phase One: 09.10.2021-12.11.2021
Phase Two: 13.11.2021-17.12.2021
Phase Three: 18.12.2021-30.01.2122
Curators: Caryl Ivrisse-Crochemar, Takamori Nobuo