與社會交往的藝術
香港台灣交流展
Art as Social Interaction
Hong Kong/ Taiwan Exchange
藝術家經常利用一筆材料費製作給大眾觀看的作品，一個觀看的裝置，展覽後這些裝置多被包裹收進倉庫，甚至拆解成資源回收，或垃圾。這樣的過程讓吳耿禎思及車站裡的邊緣人物，如流離的人、失業的人、待業的人、流浪漢等，若能將材料費變成流動的工資，或許可以轉變「材料費」的意義。
因此，他提出一參與式計畫，讓在地失業者於車站公共場所從事一份臨時工作，他們舉著自己的肖像剪影，「他們」成為作品，在車站彷若「流動的雕塑」，並與民眾交談，進行一份關於藝術與社會的問卷表，讓觀看者思考藝術生活化的可能與藝術的定義。
When creating artworks to be viewed by the public, artists often spend a lot on materials, which is often stowed away, dismantled as scrap, or simply thrown away after the exhibition. The process reminded Jam Wu of marginal figures like the homeless, the unemployed and hobos. If the cost of materials could be transformed into wages to be distributed, then “cost” could come to have a new meaning.
Wu thus proposed a participative project, giving local unemployed people a temporary job: they hold a picture of themselves so that they become the artwork itself., forming “moving sculptures” at train stations. In addition, Wu talked with passersby to conduct a survey on art and society, encouraging viewers to think about the possibility of art in everyday life and the definition of art.
吳耿禎1979年生於台灣台南，畢業於實踐大學建築設計學系，中國中央美術學院實驗藝術系研究生。創作形式包含剪紙，影像，裝置，雕塑，參與式計畫......等。
除了長期以民間藝術剪紙為脈絡，發展出自我觀點的呼應之外，出身人像攝影師的他，2002年以《不用眼睛攝影術Unlooking Take》，《水中攝影術Keep In Water》發表於詩刊。
大學時期參與馬祖西莒社區計畫，開啓藝術介入社區的經驗。2006年獲得雲門舞集流浪者計劃獎助，前往陝北探訪民間藝術。2009年為誠品書店首位培植的Young Talent Artist計畫藝術家，舉辦個展三部曲。
2012年《工作表》參與式計畫，以日常「剪髮」與民眾交換生活物資的行為計畫，探討藝術家的職業法定化。在北京老胡同《一個城市青年回鄉的路上》，邀請北漂青年透過餐桌，談論青年回鄉潮。2013年《尋找看展覽的人》，化身傢俱店員工，探討展覽中的觀眾參與。
Jam Wu is an artist who works with a variety of creative genres, including paper-cutting, video, installation, sculpture, and participatory projects.
In addition to his extensive engagement in the folk art paper-cutting and the context involved with the art form, which has evolved into expressions that echo with the artist’s personal views, Wu, who comes from a portrait photographer background, has also published some of his photographic works in periodical journals, including the 2002 Unlooking Take and Keep In Water.
During his college years, he participated in the Xiju Community Project in Mazu, Taiwan, which led to his further involvements with incorporating art in communities.
In the performance project, Subsist Worksheet Of An Artist (2012), he offered to give haircuts in exchange for people’s everyday objects, with the intention to explore the statutory definition for the career of being an artist. In On The Way To Hometown About One Urban Youth, which took place in Beijing hutong, or old alleyways, with youths that have migrated to Beijing from elsewhere gathered over a meal to share their thoughts on the ongoing wave of youths returning back home. For the 2013 Looking For Audience, Wu transformed himself into a furniture store clerk to explore issues regarding public participations in exhibitions.
臨時工 一份藝術與社會的問卷
Temporary A Questionnaire of Art and Society