[ 風暴巫師 Tempestarii ] Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert with live music by Stephen O’Malley , 王福瑞 Fujui Wang

現場音樂演出：Stephen O’Malley 史帝芬‧歐馬利
影像：Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert 加斯特‧布歇+娜丁‧希爾伯

黎明的陽光灑過冰島的海岸，一個男巫站在暗紅色的海水與黑色的山岩之間。他是風暴巫師（Tempestarii），中世紀的傳說，能夠以法術招喚暴風雨。這個造風者唸著咒語，對著龐大的崖壁捶打他魔法的布袋，螢幕上的深海潮水隨之劇烈地升起又落下。這只布袋，是法器，裝著從世界各地抽來的強風。它是比喻，類比於水、風、陽光幅射和地貌移動等等自然劇變，並充滿著人類欲與大自然結盟的強烈意志。它也是預兆，風暴巫師預示了物質界與形上界的巨大變化。

Stephen O’Malley 史帝芬‧歐馬利
史帝芬‧歐馬利1974年出生於美國新罕布夏州來，成長於西雅圖，後前往紐約，目前生活並工作於法國巴黎。他是樂手、吉他手、製作人與作曲者家，參與創始的樂團包括Thorr's Hammer （1993）、Burning Witch （1995）、Sunn O))) （1998）、Khanate (2000)、KTL (2005)、Nazoranai (2011)、ÄÄNIPÄÄ (2011)等等。他也經常與不同領域的非主流的樂手、藝術家、作曲家合作錄音與現場演出，其中包括日本實驗樂手Merzbow（秋田昌美）、灰野敬二、Boris與栗原道夫，以及法國編舞家兼劇場導演Gisèle Vienne、美國雕刻家Banks Violette、義大利表演藝術家 Nico Vascellari、瑞士藝術團體KLAT和比利時電影導演Alexis Destoop等。

Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert 加斯特‧布歇+娜丁‧希爾伯
加斯特與娜丁生於盧森堡，近期活躍於比利時布魯塞爾。他們自1990年起開始合作，擅於結合攝影、錄像及聲音技法，以影像裝置、文件等多媒材討論當代社會與政治，其中不乏以詩性方式對體制反思與批判。他們展出頻繁，可以在諸多國際重要場合看到他們的作品。如：波蘭羅茲美術館（Muzeum Sztuki Lodz）、盧森堡愛樂音樂廳（Philharmonie）、安哥拉盧安達三年展（Trienal de Luanda）、南韓釜山當代藝術雙年展（Busan Biennale of Contemporary Art）、法國沙馬朗德酒莊（Domaine de Chamarande）、盧森堡Casino當代藝術中心（Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain）與南非約翰內斯堡保護色藝廊（Camouflage Johannesburg）……等。2009年他們代表盧森堡參加威尼斯雙年展。

特別共演：王福瑞 Fujui Wang
台北藝術大學 「藝術與科技中心」未來聲響實驗室主持人。主要專長為聲音藝術、互動藝術。1993年成立台灣第一個實驗音樂廠牌和刊物《Noise》，2000年 加入「在地實驗」，是台灣媒體藝術發展中少數以團體實驗室方式進行數位藝術的實驗、實踐與探討，是早期少數以即時互動為主的創作實驗團體，並推動「異響 /Bias」聲音藝術展與「台北數位藝術獎」聲音藝術類別，將聲音藝術推展成國內數位藝術具有特色的領域。近年策展「台北數位藝術節」，2008年起策劃 「超響」聲音藝術展演，帶動國內新一波數位藝術發展。近十多年來一直致力於聲音藝術、數位藝術的創作與推廣。

[ 風暴巫師 Tempestarii ] Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert

With live music by Stephen O’Malley
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特別共演：王福瑞 Fujui Wang

Tempestarii – Video by Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert.
With live music by Stephen O’Malley + Prelude: The Breath of Charybdis curated by Amelia Ishmael + DISintegration by Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert. With Stephen O’Malley.

Dawn spreads its luminous rays across the coast of Iceland, to reveal a sorcerer standing between wine-dark sea and mountainous black rock. He is tempestarii, a figure of medieval lore, undertaking a primitive rite manifested to conjure a storm. The tides of the deep ocean breathe heavily rising and falling across the cinema screen with amplifying power, as the weather-maker beats a mysterious sack against the monolithic cliffs with powerful repetition.

As a magical tool, this sack contains forceful winds pulled from each corner of world. As an analogy, it is aligned with the revolutionary transformations of nature by water, air, solar radiation, and geological shifts and filled with the vast potential of man’s will in alliance with Nature. As an omen, the tempestarii signals profound change on both physical and metaphysical realms.

Presented as both a live performance and an installation, Tempestarii is an immersive experience of video and sound. By demonstrating contemporary art as meteorological sorcery and political activism, the duo Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert raise a storm and blacken the air.

Tempestarii DISintegration
A series of 10 short excerpts from the 108 hours disintegration process.

Cast from the premiere performance, Tempestarii will sustain at CCRD in the form of a video and sound exhibition. The duration of the video is designed to consume the entire run of the exhibition period: 9 days, or 108 hours. Within this span of time the initial video undergoes continual change. Video files fall apart when they are copied again and again, more and more pixels go missing. The resulting loss of definition, as well as parasitic interferences, gradually darken the images, until Tempestarii finally collapses into blackness.

From Bataille's 1959 study of Gilles de Rais:

We accumulate wealth in the prospect of a continual expansion, but in societies different from ours the prevalent principle was the contrary one of wasting or losing wealth, of giving or destroying it. Accumulated wealth has the same sense as work; wealth wasted or destroyed in tribal potlatch has the contrary sense of play. Accumulated wealth has nothing but a subordinate value, but wealth that is wasted or destroyed has, to the eyes of those who waste it, or destroy it, a sovereign value: it serves nothing ulterior; only this wastage itself, or this fascinating destruction. Its present tense: its wastage, or the gift that one makes of it, is its final reason for being, and it is due to this that its sense is not able to be put off, and must be in the instant. But it is consumed in that instant. This can be magnificent; those who know how to appreciate consumption are dazzled, but nothing remains of it.

日期：2014/9/11(四) 19:30 入場、20:00 開演
地點：THE WALL 公館 台北市羅斯福路四段200號B1
票價：預售 NT.1000｜現場 NT.1300
購票端點：THE WALL 公館｜博客來｜華娛售票｜7-11 ibon＆全家 Famiport
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