展名：不適者生存？Survival Of The Exceptional
展期：2020/12/29~2021/06/13
時間：週二至週日10:00-18:00，週六延長開放至21:00，週一休館。
地點：臺南市美術館2館　展覽室K、L、M、N
（臺南市中西區忠義路二段1號）

開幕時間
2021/01/21（四）詳情請查閱臺南市美術館官方網站
相關活動
2021/01 東冬侯溫《來處歸地》現場演出（日期異動，確定時間將於官網公告）
2021/01/23（六）
10:30 策展人座談
13:30 現場導覽
15:00 布拉瑞揚舞團《#是否》現場演出
16:00 許家禎《我愛妳呀》行為互動
17:00 郭品君《✧*｡(單身KTV)✧*｡》現場直播

2021/03/21（日）14:00許家禎《我愛妳呀》行為互動
2021/05/23（日）10:00許家禎《我愛妳呀》行為互動
備註：活動時間，以美術館官方網站公布時間為主。

策展人：劉星佑、游量凱、蔡明君
展出藝術家：
布拉瑞揚舞團、陳漢聲、陳念瑩、東冬．侯溫、侯聰慧、許家禎、許維穎、黃金樹、黃子明、鄭介瑋、金緣定（韓國）、維卡．基辛鮑爾（德國）、薩瑪．柯塞姆（泰國）、郭品君、林柏樑、歐靜雲、潘小俠、那拉法特．薩卡頌薩普（泰國）、席德進、蔡草如、王怡然、黃向藝（馬來西亞）。
展出授權圖像：謝鴻均、林壽鎰、約翰．湯姆森（英國蘇格蘭）
主視覺設計：詹雨樹
展場燈光：黃鈿翔

策展論述：
生命會自己找出路—《侏羅紀公園》（1993）
「不適者生存？」一展的關鍵字，來自「適者生存」這個演化論的誤譯。在不同的情境下，人人都有可能是適者與不適者。面對社會文化的演化，倘若以藝術之名來審視，而非用天擇結果來歸納，又可以看見什麼？藝術史的風格演化？社會運動的推動與實踐？還是大眾文化的流行、過氣與復古？社會文化的演化與選擇，因適者而有所保存，但往往又由不適者所引發響應與關注。
在所謂的自然界裡，生存與繁殖看似是終極的目標；然而在人類的文化與社會中，「適者」與「不適者」似乎不是僅以生存與繁殖為目標來判定。「多元成展」六年來持續以藝術展演的策劃，來思考「多元性別」在今日社會文化中的狀態。從疾病汙名、校園霸凌到婚姻平權等社會議題，我們發現「適者」或「不適者」求生頑抗的種種足跡，並思考社會運動、藝術表現和生命記憶共同作為「抗體」的可能性。
「不適者生存？」展出作品包含了公立美術館的典藏品以及當代藝術創作兩個部分。透過選出原具有歷時性的官方權威的美術館典藏品，以性別意識重新檢視其中象徵「典範」的「適者」，再於策展中另闢觀看的蹊徑，讓「不適者」得以暫時被「發現」。而邀請展出的當代藝術作品，則是透過創作者本身既有的性別與環境、社會關係之意識，讓今日似乎擁有許多生存之道的「適者」，藉由集結展示，讓仍有可能存在的「不適者」得以持續被「關注」。以典藏品對照當代藝術，比較時序關係裡「適者」的生存之道，也映照出「不適者」跨越時空的多重樣貌。
「不適者生存？」參酌演化論並延伸想像，提出「共生」、「抗體」、「晝夜行」、「擬態」四種形態作為作品類比的關鍵字，彷彿是對於不適者生存的生態筆記，試圖在「不適者」與「適者」的相對關係中，從「已知」思考「未見」、從「已見」思考「未思」、從「遮蔽」意識到「彰顯」，進而觀察社會運動、大眾文化與藝術、博物館典藏這三個貌似平行發展的軸線，如何形成演化與消長的關係，以重新思考性別政治交融與延展的可能。

Survival Of The Exceptional
Curators :
Liou Sing-You, Yu Liang-Kai, Tsai Ming-Jiun
Artists :
Bulareyaung Dance Company, Chen Han-Sheng, Chen Nien-Ying, Dondon Houmwm, Hou Tsung-Hui, Hsu Jia-Jhen, Hsu Wei-Ying, Huang Jin-Shu, Huang Tz-Ming, Jeng Jie-Wei, Kim Yeon-Jeong, Vika Kirchenbauer, Samak Kosem, Kuo Pin-Chun,Lin Bo-Liang, Ou Jing-Yun, Pan Shiao-Hsia, Naraphat Sakarthornsap, Shiy De-Jinn, Tsai Tsao-Ju, Wang Yi-Jan, Wong Xiang-Yi
Licensed Image Prints : Shieh Juin, Lin Shou-Yi, John Thomson
Visual Design : Chan Yushu
Lighting : Huang Tian-Shiang

Survival of the Exceptional
“Life finds a way.” - Jurassic Park (1993)
The exhibition title “Survival of the Exceptional” comes from an appropriation of the evolutionary theory of “survival of the fittest.” In different circumstances, everyone can be both the fittest and exceptional. What will we reveal if we examine social-cultural evolution instead of natural selection through the lens of art? Will we see the development of genres in art history, the impetus and practices of social movements, or the currency, obsolescence, and revival of popular culture? The evolution and selection of social-culture are preserved by the fittest; however, the exceptional often provokes reactions and concerns.
In nature, survival seems to be the ultimate goal; however, in human society, the “fittest” and the “exceptional” are not solely determined by the basis of survival. The “Coexist Exhibition” has been exploring the state of “gender diversity” in today’s society and culture through curating over six years. From social issues such as the stigma of the disease, school bullying, and marriage equality, we have discovered that traces left by those fittest and exceptional in their struggle for survival, and considered the possibilities of social movements, artistic presentation, and life skills working together as the “antibody.”
The exhibition “Survival of the Exceptional” consists of works from the public museum collections and contemporary artworks. On the one hand, through the selection of works from the museum collection with its diachronic order and authority, the exhibition intends to re-examine the “fittest,” which symbolizes the “paradigm,” through gender perspectives. Through the curatorial approach that juxtaposes the museum collections with contemporary artworks, it also creates a new way of viewing the works allowing the “exceptional” to be temporarily “discovered” through alternative reflection. On the other hand, the invited contemporary artists’ perspectives of genders, environments, and social relations bring together the “fittest” that may seem to have various ways of surviving today. It allows the possible “exceptional” to be constantly “noticed.” By doing so, the exhibition demonstrates the survival of the “fittest” both in the past and the present. It reflects the multiple appearances of the “exceptional” across time.
“Survival of the Exceptional” draws on evolutionary theory and extends the imagination, proposing four forms as the subthemes, “symbiosis,” “antibody,” “diurnality/nocturnality,” and “mimicry.” In the dialectic relationship between the “fittest” and the “exceptional,” the exhibition considers the “unseen” from the “seen,” the “unthought” from the “known,” and the “concealed” from the “manifested.” It further observes how the three seemingly parallel-developed themes including social movements, popular culture, and museum collections, form a relationship that mutually evolves and fluctuates to rethink the possibility of integrating and extending gender politics.

主辦單位：臺南市美術館、走路草農/藝團、多元成展
指導贊助單位：國家人權博物館、臺灣民主基金會
合作單位：阿嬤家- 和平與女性人權館、沃時文化
特別感謝：國立臺灣美術館、臺北市立美術館、高雄市立美術館