Exhibition Concept Art

Curatorial Statement

by Lin Yi-Ning, Chiu Yi Jie, Lin Pei Chen

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. — Fight Club, 1999 Aren’t we like robots when being fed information day after day? Humans in 2021 not only need to face a survival crisis, but they also strive to confront the problems of everyday repetition, so-called “daily misfortune.” “Boredom” is a symbol of the ever-increasing development of human abilities. With a settled mode of life, people forgo migrating around physical space. Rather, they expand and complicate their own mental space, and engage in an endless battle against boredom. “Avoiding boredom” has become a vital issue for humans. People resort to shopping online in order to counter boredom, yet this only causes insomnia and cannot satisfy their withered souls. The 1999 classic film “Fight Club” uses the most violent conflicts to reveal modern people’s daily struggles. Twenty-two years after its release, the film still proves that “boredom” remains the source of a heavy burden in modern times.

The idea of resisting boredom through personal behavior permeates the mind of the whole world. Streaming platforms give these daily micro-resistances a stage on which to play. Rather than merely scrolling through countless exercises of boredom and self-amusement, we should reflect on our daily behaviors. We have the potential to mobilize our intellect to shop rationally, to enrich our hearts, and actively to break the cycle of boredom, then to fight for ourselves. The exhibition “Generation Bored Stiff” attempts to discuss the notions of “the misfortune of modern humans” by facing up to the human pursuit of “desire”, extending to the present day to interpret boredom and to provide the rules to live with it.

New Art City Exhibition View

不幸福利社 Generation Bored Stiff , by 水谷藝術 Waley Art

Exhibition in New Art City, Virtual Art Space.

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