Group exhibition Drifting Feast

Basics

Description

The notion of Drifting Feast connotes the flow, the unpredictability, the freedom of movement, and the beauty of exchanges and gatherings. By way of this metaphor, the exhibition explores personal and collective journeys, celebrations, and renewals. The feast symbolizes an ambivalent confluence of diverse traditions, flavors, and stories. It represents a space for encounter, celebration, nourishment, and cultural exchange—a meeting point of diverse perspectives. As it drifts, it gathers influences, reshaping itself through people and places.

In an era of geopolitical and economic instability, plentiful occasions for dialogue are dwindling—precisely when they are needed most. The feast is drifting away, strained by overconsumption, environmental exploitation, and disregard of the wellbeing of the many for the benefit, success, and accumulation of the few. This project celebrates global interconnectivity while addressing themes of excessiveness, displacement, futility, and failure. Every feast is a ritual and a story. The selected artworks display tensions between history, tradition, belief, contemporary loneliness, the seductive pull of consumerism, and prosperity myths.

This group exhibition is part of the Drifting Feast, Impossible Dialogue framework project of Hot Spring Project Studio, Taipei, realized in collaboration with DAS WEISSE HAUS, Vienna. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA 7), the Austrian Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS), Erste Bank Sponsoring Programme, and Bildrecht.

Participants

John Chuang, Chang En-Man, Hai-Hsin Huang, Eva Kovac (Kurator/in), Li-Chung Lee, Haruko Maeda, Jelena Micić, Philipp Pess, WU Shang Lin (Kurator/in), Julia Taschler, Kai Philip Trausenegger, Ying-Chih Chuang