SHAPING SOUL
26 AUG. - 04 SEP. 2011
Opening: 26 AUG. 8-12pm 
tamtamART
Dear friends,
  
tamtamART have the pleasure to invite you to our upcoming exhibition Shaping soul.
Shaping  soul is an exhibition by 8 artists, and is about image of what we  think, what others think, what we used to think, and what we think we  will be.
The exhibition will open on August 26 and will be on view until September 04. The opening reception scheduled for Friday, August 26 and will include 3 parts of performance. 
Program:
  
20:30  Someone drawing on someone else  by Ruth Pulgram, Andrea Loebell-Buch
20:45  Moment that is timeless  by Su-Mei Tang, Yu-Hsuan Pai, Amélie Chambinaud
21:30  Someone drawing on someone else  by Ruth Pulgram, Andrea Loebell-Buch
21:45  Le somnambulisme  by Yi-Cai Hsu
22:30  Someone drawing on someone else  by Ruth Pulgram, Andrea Loebell-Buch
PATINA OF EGO   Verena Kyselka  
video installation, 16 min and 30 min loop, 2001/2011
Cleaning and scrubbing in a fountain of youth and the process of age concerning the skin of three generations…
ALONG THE EYELINE   Verena Kyselka  
video installation, 6 min loop, 2001/2011
This  video is about a hidden story of development of the eye glance - the  eye sights. How do eyes look like, when they see, look, shine, catch  sight of, recognize, wink, observe, penetrate, speak, take on a  face….eyes put on make up, cleansed, meet the look of all looks face to  face, in their mirror. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. The voice of the  eyes describes the invisible. Finely this film is about a relationship  of couples or daughters and mothers.
Verena Kyselka  lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic work was developed in the  underground scene of East   Germany at the end of 80’s. With the female  artist group Exterra XX she founded the Kunsthaus Erfurt in 1990. Here  she curated and worked on intercultural projects. From 1997 to 2003 she  studied fine art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Since then, she  has been working space-related with video. Her numerous international  projects were developed during intercultural exchanges in East Europe as  well as Taiwan and Australia. Her artistic intention is to take up  experiences of contemporary history and to put it into an artistic  context. 
http://www.verena-kyselka.de 
SOMEONE DRAWING ON SOMEONE  Andrea Loebell-Buch + Ruth Pulgram 
live performance with dance and painting
Andrea Loebell-Buch  dances because dancing is an important part of her life. From her first  steps at Palucca-school in Dresden, her training as dance educator to  her last performance at HUNGER-Festival in mai 2011 her research is  inspired by observing movements of children, enlargening the potential  and range of possibilities.
Ruth Pulgram's itinerary  to performance art started with her activity as stage and costume  designer - meeting with choreographers gave her the opportunity to  sketch dancers in rehearsal -  sketches on various supports  became installations in dance-spaces. watching dancers gave her the  desire to move. her actual research is at the border of visual and  performing art, trying to capture the uniqueness of the moment, moving  and sketching becoming one, bringing up a new identity.                       
http://www.ruthpulgram.net                                                               
SHE IS NOT ME   I-Chen Tsou 
video installation, 3 min, 2011
As always, I wear the same clothes—my skin-- Two images overlap one to each other.
I  put myself on the other side of the window, in the middle frames of  three. Which one is the “used to be”? which one is “going to be”? and  also, where is inside? Where is outside?
I-Chen Tsou born 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan, now studies in France, works in France and Germany. She uses her body as material, and the memories from childhood and teenager as the element for her works. She is more a storyteller than a performer.                                      
http://vimeo.com/user2883733 
AUTO-PRESENTING / ON THE WAY OF SEARCHING ¨I¨   Yuan-Chen Chen
video installation, 2011
Who  is "I" ? Through outer look, words, smell or voice, in which details we  construct "I" as "ME" ?  Is "I" really "ME" ? By answering the  questions of auto-introductions, we are on the way of searching.
Yuan-Chen Chen born  in 1978. Used to be a reporter, art administrators, copywriter, film  maker. Graduating from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies  in Management Of Tainan National  University of Art. She is now  studying documentary films in the University of Lumière in Lyon, France.
MOMENT THAT IS TIMELESS   Su-Mei Tang + Yu-Hsuan Pai + Amélie Chambinaud 
20min, improvisation 
This  is a combination of visual, auditory, tactile improvisation. On the  body, son, rhythm with painting, color structure of each movement, as a  march infinitive. Action / moment that is real / timeless, through a  combination of painting and sound experimental means to leave traces of  the process, to find another fun and other possibilities.
Yu-Hsuan Pai  born 1988 in Taichung city, Taiwan. She starts learning the piano music  and traditional instruments when she was young. At 14 years old she  discovered the percussion with Mr. Li-Feng Cheng, and is attracted by  the diversity and richness of the instruments. In 2006, she decided to  come and work the comtemporary music in France, and she entered the  class of percussion with Jean Geoffroy and Henri-Charles Caget of the  National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon. She is currently a  master interpreter, she has worked since 2010 with artist Su-Mei Tang  Taiwanese on report musical gesture / act of painting.
Amélie Chambinaud  is an artist of many talents. She started her adventure with music by  learning the piano, but her thirst for social interaction and team  working naturally led her to percussion. She first studied at the music  school of Nevers, then at the Conservatoire National de Région of Tours,  where she passed the Diplome d'Etudes Musicales. She also passed the  bachelor degree in musicology in 2004, and discovered the pleasure of  teaching. This is why Amélie decided to study pedagogy at the Centre de  Formation des Enseignants de la Musique of Dijon where she obtained her  diploma in 2008 (Diplôme d'Etat de professeur de percussion). In 2011,  Amélie passed a Master degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de  Musique of Lyon. Her percussion teachers were Jean Geoffroy and  Henri-Charles Caget.
Today  Amélie beams in almost all spheres of the musical world, as long as  it's possible to break the rules. She teaches percussion and musical  theatre at the Conservatoire of Bourg-en-Bresse. She's much interested  in the link between music, lyrics and gesture. This is why she created  several exhibitions such as the musical theatre piece “Qu'est-ce ou la  boîte à souvenir metallique or Trois p'tits pas”, created for the young  public in 2011. She's also working with the composer Stéphane Borrel,  and she recently joined the Compagnie ATTA."                 
http://ameliechambinaud.fr 
Su-Mei Tang born 1978 in Hualien, Taiwan, now studies at Superior Academy of Fine Arts in Marseille,France
LE SOMNAMBULISME   Yi-Cai Hsu  
theater piece, 60min
A  girl comes from an island and actively participates in the definition  of the island's nation status. Her family' story is as intricate as her  island' story. Her grandparents belonged to an ethnic minority, which  language she has forgotten. Her boyfriend comes from the same ethnic  group as her grandparents and she met her ex-girlfriend in a political  movement, thus beginning an unstable three-way relationship. She decided  to leave her island to travel around the world. During her journey, she  met a western girl who shares her interest in insular culture, thus  thinking maybe together they can find a solution? This girl told her  story like it was right out of her memory, and sometimes like it was a  dream. 
Yi-Cai Hsu born  in Taiwan, has a bachelor's degree in Chinese literature and a master's  degree in Taiwanese literature. Has served as play writer, manager and  director in a theater troupe. She can't speak her grandparents'  language, Hakka, but she speaks Taiwanese and Chinese. She now lives and  studies in French.
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