At 3:33pm on February 12, 2015, the large-scale public art project “Today, We Hug” launched by Today Art Museum was held on 2/F, Exhibition Hall of Building 1, Today Art Museum. It launched the Hug 13’ 14” project last year that won high praise from all walks of life, so it makes persistent effort to combine more elements in order to present an activity to perform an integrated interaction. Nearly 200 people participated in the activity, everyone through an embrace tried to break barriers, and deepen the emotional communication. Today Art Museum turned into an ocean of love with their warm hugs. It is a warm opening for the beginning of the New Year. At the start of 2015, Today Art Museum offered all “l(fā)oving people” a platform for expression, reaching out their arms to show the power of love, to accomplish a work in the art museum with love so that everyone can feel its warmth. The embrace time is still the symbolic 13’ 14", and embracing objects is still familiar to family and friends or strangers that have never been seen, the exhibition pays more attention to the communication and expression of the mind, in addition to form.

Today Art Museum successfully integrated their voice into the exhibition in order to promote the interaction of audiences last year, and it promotes the body language of the year, through play, dance, performance and other artistic methods to integrate body language into the exhibition or the educational projects of the art museum, and then the series will successively be presented during 2015. The annual installation show “Love·Taste – Farewell Louis Kahn” is a prelude blended into the embrace activity, in the section of the drama performance, the audience can not only appreciate the play but also participate in it, experiencing the designed emotions of the different roles of the heroine.

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“Love·Taste – Farewell Louis Kahn”

Su Dan uses the new work to salute the architect Louis Kahn’s annual installation play show “Love·Taste – Farewell Louis Kahn” with the use of the unique form of expression, integrated installation art, chance performance art and a play. A new dramatic expressive form with the unique characteristics of Su Dan’s play is created, and called “installation play” by Su Dan. The combination of static stage art installation exhibition and the dynamic action play breaks with the traditional dramatic performing pattern and the relationship between the audience and performers, which is the pioneer to create the “installation play”. Desserts are the elements that always appear in Su Dan’s work, while each kind of dessert hints at a different feeling of love, which is strong or simple and elegant; The packaging of desserts is chosen to be the reference for the lighting projection, to perform the sugar-coating of the packaging of love, the projected shadows perform the nature of the relationship after passion leaves.

Photo by Today Art Museum

Translated? by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO