Return to nature, embracing and creating a landscape of life with body and soul.
Art Direction | Printing | Web DesignReturn to nature, embracing and creating a landscape of life with body and soul.
Art Direction | Printing | Web DesignDancing as a silent language to express all kinds of emotions and communicate with each other through the extension of human body, the subtle way of expression has been always fascinating to me. Wu Chien-Wei has been performing for several dance theaters in both domestic and overseas. As a young choreographer from Taiwan, he insists on establishing a contemporary dance theater rooted in Taiwan even though it's rather difficult to survive in the field of performing arts in Taiwan. "Tussock Dance Theater" which founded in 2013 named after the anthology "Tussock" by Lu-Xun, in expectation of being unyielding and strong like tussock. The philosophy is not to critisize toward things, but explore the movement relationship between bodies and Nature through the meditation of ourselves.
舞蹈作為一種無聲語言表達各種情緒、透過肢體延展溝通彼此,這種微妙的表現型式一直讓我深深著迷。在台灣從事表演藝術不是一件容易的事,吳建緯過去待過國內外知名舞團,也累積了相當的巡迴經歷,身為一個來自台灣的舞蹈創作者,他堅持開創屬於自己、屬於台灣的當代舞蹈團體,以台灣為根基邁向國際,「野草舞蹈聚落」應運而生。舞團成立於2013年,以魯迅散文詩集〈野草〉作品為名,象徵如同野草一般有著堅韌的戰鬥哲學,但並非對外批判,而是透過對自身的省思去探討舞動時肢體和自然間所存在的關係。
'Tussock Dance Theater' inscripted by Zhang Xiao-XiongBetween sky and earth, I am a clump of tussock in the storm of four seasons with my corporal body writing the poem of soul.
天地間 我是一叢野草 以肉身 四季風雨裡 書寫靈魂之詩
The first production by Tussock Dance Theater "Two Bodies" is choreographed and performed by Wu Chien-Wei and Xing Liang. Return to the initial state, the dance tries not only to draw a clear picture, but also to record or reconstruct the grayscale which could not be measured clearly in life.
For the logo design, I cut and deconstruct the structure of the four Chinese characters "兩個身體" to express the various interpretation of the dance concept. In order to focus on the interactive, pull and drag relationship between two dancers, I apply a pure tone of black and white color on the print. The print could be folded as a brochure, and spread out as a poster at the same time.
野草舞蹈聚落創團首部作品《兩個身體》由吳建緯及邢亮創作雙人舞作,回歸到身體最原始的狀態,試圖呈現的不是已經確立或者完全清晰的生命風景,更多的是紀錄或再現生命中無法明確丈量的的灰階地帶。
LOGO設計上我將文字的結構、方向、順序切割解構,呼應《兩個身體》概念賦予文字多角度的解讀與詮釋,但最終還是回歸事物最原始的探索與舞作欲傳達的身體論述。整體設計使用純粹的黑與白,讓視覺焦點更直接地落在舞者的互動狀態與拉扯關係。印刷概念結合海報與DM,折合時可作為一般DM發放,攤開時也能直接當作海報張貼。
The second production by the theater entitled "The Time" is inspired by British journalist Mark Sanderson’s memoir Wrong Rooms. It is a story of love and loss, for within two years of meeting the love of his life, Sanderson helped his partner die after a three-month battle with an aggressive form of skin cancer. The choreography interprets a Western text from Eastern logic, to question what it takes to love in the face of death and whether the power of love can overcome death. Twelve perspectives were shown to explore the composition of love.
The design tries to present a sense of "sealed time." The time stays still at the subtle, dull moment with an affectionate embrace, looks like the impression of love has never been washed by time and history.
野草舞蹈聚落第二部作品《我們選擇的告別》以東方思維解讀西方文本,從情慾關聯找尋共鳴點,探討人之通性。舞作以英國作家Mark Sanderson小說Wrong Rooms為藍本,以書中主角在結束罹患絕症的伴侶生命前的十二次設問為主軸,探討愛的意義。舞作從十二問中釐出十二種不同的視角進行自我辯證:愛的成分是什麼? 聯結、授受、承諾、踐約?
設計上試圖呈現一種“封存的時間感”,時間靜止在那一幽微、晦暗卻深切的擁抱當下,深刻烙印不曾被歲月與歷史沖刷的愛情印記。
How much must one love to take on the life and death of another?
愛 要有多深 才能擔負起死生相託?
Several image and text blocks are overlapping to structure the website layout. I apply different shades of black and white color to create the visual layers and to imitate the light and dark, complicated scenery of dance. No additional decoration, putting spotlight on the artistry and pureness of dance.
影像與文字區塊相互交疊構成網站版面,以純粹的黑白圖像營造視覺脈絡,並透過不同的深淺色調塑造畫面層次,將舞蹈般忽明忽暗、樸素迷離的意象呈現於形象網站。屏除多餘的裝飾元素,聚光在舞團的藝術性與純粹性。
Taiwan PanoramaViewing with artistic vocabulary, dance beheld by the others, while observing others through his lens, Wu Chien-Wei reflected a unified poetic style between dance and photography.
以藝術語彙觀之,舞蹈被觀看,鏡頭則觀看人,吳建緯在二者之間穿梭,互相對照出統一的詩意風格。