易術碎碎唸，郭昭蘭Jau-lan Guo

2013北藝大卓越獎審查心得:從這次的卓越獎的審查作品，普遍感受到某種世故早熟的策略選擇壓倒性的戰勝了天真浪漫的冒險。也許就因為這裡畢竟是距離成功最近的地方之一，所必然承載的「原罪」吧。然而，陳政道的計畫多少向未知啟程，固執地透過網路搜集素材，以執念反制了網路世界訊息的脆弱性，計畫的目的地尚在未來遙遠但令人期待抵達的彼岸。展演計劃方面，林奕維與王萱的策展計劃「八小時們」，把尋常作為展覽行政的勞動力，展覽中不可見的時間，從沈默的陪襯角色中挪移出來; 位移過程即同時賦予顧展工一種「作者權」；內建於既有展覽的展覽策動形式，說游擊太攻擊性了，似乎是有種引入屬於藝術之外的日常生活小情調的意味。未來的展覽形式將決定它定調「過程即生產」抑或是朝向「展覽間隙」的流動策展模式。

〈憂鬱的進步〉─關於現代性與進步意涵的再思考

刊載於藝術家雜誌，12月號, pp.240-245

鄭慧華 郭昭蘭

郭昭蘭：「形勢中的身體」，現代美術學報, 161期, pp.48-53

獨立策展人郭昭蘭（Jau-lan Guo）將於2012年5月2日在西班牙阿朵拉卡爾沃畫策劃一項以台灣影像與錄像藝術中的身體論為主題的展覽，展覽標題"Ｈow Can I Tell You Who I Am ?" 台灣當代藝術自從1987年解嚴以來，藝術家熱切的回應著社會激烈的變化，這個展覽將以身體論去回答"How Can I Tell You Who I Am?"。展覽邀請了四位來自台灣的藝術家：吳天章、姚瑞中、余政達、陳敬元，試圖從身體論的角度，去打開影像作品中有關身體意像的討論。影像中的身體，總是折射著表演者鑲崁於其身體，有關時間的、或空間的圖騰。這個展覽將從他們的作品中投射的身影，勾勒出一個關於台灣當代文化中的身體論軌跡；這個軌跡一方面反應藝術家如何在作品中處理著個體與集體、歷史、系統之間的交涉、迂迴、協商、阻滯，一方面也折射出更大的歷史、記憶、場所、政治以及社會交流。“How Can I Tell You Who I Am?”既是一個提問，也是一個回答。"Ｈow Can ITell You Who I Am ?"是個體在面對身份空缺的同時，被迫自我追問的處境。"How"指涉的是方法，"Ｈow Can I Tell You Who I Am ?"同時提問「是否存在一個說明自身的方法？」，"How Can I Tell You Who I Am ?" 暗示因為「妾身未明」而失語的窘態；"Ｈow Can I Tell You Who I Am ?"也是對存在核心主體的反問，以發問來懷疑問題的正當性。 
 
Adora Calvo Galeria is honored to engage independent curator Ms. Jau-lan Guo to curate an exhibition titled "How Can I Tell You Who I am?" Since Taiwan's abolishment of the Martial Law in 1987, artists have been urgently responding to the sea change of Taiwanese society. This exhibition attempts to sketch out traces of the theoretical body within the cultural context from the silhouettes of the situated body projected in their work. While these traces reflect how the artists address historical and systemic issues of representation, negotiation, obstruction and rotation between the individual and the collective, they also project these silhouettes onto the midst of a larger history, memory, locale, politics and exchange. In other words, their work open up the crisscrossing axes of time, space, language, culture and systems that surround the body, and enable this to be seen as a visual form.This exhibition raises a question; meanwhile it responds to the situation when one's identity is absent. "How" implies a method about solving this problem but questioning, "Is there a method to describe one's identity at all?" This exhibition refers to the despair of losing words as one's identity is obscure, it also doubts the subject of the being, and the justification of raising such a question.
 

The Confrontational Body - Hsieh Tehching
Text: Guo Jau-Lan

On March 3, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum will at last retrospectively honor the overseas-Taiwanese artist Hsieh Tehching for his work since the 1970s in performance art that was a response to contemporary art in Taiwan -- with the “2012 Pilot Program: Hsieh Tehching’s Performance Art”, and the publication of the Taiwan edition of “Out of Now”.
In actually, Hsieh has only undertaken six public performance art works from the time he first arrived on the shores of the United States as a stowaway and illegal immigrant in 1974, until his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2009. His current work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum ought to be considered the beginning of Taiwanese re-reading of Hsieh’s performance art. Only, how should Taiwan approach this reading of Hsieh’s performance art?

How Can I Tell You Who I Am? @ 西班牙阿朵拉卡爾沃畫廊

獨立策展人郭昭蘭（Jau-lan Guo）將在2012年5月2日在西班牙阿朵拉卡爾沃畫策劃一項以台灣影像與錄像藝術中的身體論為主題的展覽，展覽標題"Ｈow Can I Tell You Who I Am ?" 台灣當代藝術自從1987年解嚴以來，藝術家熱切的回應著社會激烈的變化，這個展覽將以身體論去回答"How Can I Tell You Who I Am?"。展覽邀請了四位來自台灣的藝術家：吳天章、姚瑞中、余政達、陳敬元，試圖從身體論的角度，去打開影像作品中有關身體意像的討論。