John Kim b. 1975 x Lucía Amieva-Wang (USA)
2026
Participatory installation
Joss paper with printed photography, smoke, and embers
Dimensions variable
Artists’ bio:
John Kim is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies, a theorist, and a new media practitioner based in Minnesota. His interactive art, video games, software, and sculptures explore intersections of environmental representation and data spatialization. He has published widely, including his 2016 book Rupture of the Virtual, and exhibited globally and currently teaches at Macalester College.
John Kim 是一位定居於明尼蘇達州的媒體與文化研究教授、理論家以及新媒體實踐者。他的互動藝術、電子遊戲、軟體與雕塑創作，致力於探索環境再現與數據空間化（data spatialization）的交界。他擁有豐富的著作發表，包括2016年出版的《虛擬的破裂》（Rupture of the Virtual），作品於全球廣泛展出，目前任教於瑪卡萊斯特學院（Macalester College）。
Lucía Amieva-Wang is a Mexican-Taiwanese-American artist from California, pursuing her master’s degree at Taipei National University of the Arts, after studying Media and Cultural Studies and Biology at Macalester College. Her hyphenated identity tells her story as an artist that two things can be true at once, engaging layered truths and transformation as people and places change.
Lucía Amieva-Wang 是一位來自加州的墨西哥-台灣-美國三籍（Mexican-Taiwanese-American）藝術家，在瑪卡萊斯特學院（Macalester College）修讀媒體與文化研究以及生物學後，目前於國立臺北藝術大學攻讀碩士學位。她那具連字號的複合族裔認同（hyphenated identity），訴說著她作為藝術家的故事：兩個看似衝突的真實可以同時並存；隨著人與地方的變遷，她持續觸碰著那些層疊的真實與轉化。
Artwork description:
Ancestral Futuring for an Entangled Time is a participatory installation that reimagines the burning of joss paper for future ancestors. Printed with prose written by John Kim and photography by Lucía Amieva-Wang, visitors select, read, and burn a piece at the Guanyin temple when entering or exiting the exhibition. In contrast to the destructive and colonial desire to dominate the present, ancestral futuring gives the gift of time, for it entangles the past, present, and future in the everyday.
本作品是一件參與式裝置，重新想像了為「未來的祖先」焚燒紙錢的儀式。紙錢上印有 John Kim 撰寫的散文與 Lucía Amieva-Wang 拍攝的攝影作品，觀者在進出展場時，可在觀音廟前選擇、閱讀並焚燒一張紙錢。相較於試圖主宰當下的毀滅性殖民欲望，「祖輩未來學」給予了一份時間的禮物，因為它將過去、現在與未來緊緊糾纏於日常之中。