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Writers from all over the world provide unique insights gained from explorations of the world and share their cultural viewpoints and references based on the perspective of place. This section aims to attract more attention to and encourage more reflection on different cultures.
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The Golden Apple Snail Returns Home: A Field Study Across Species, Ecology, Art, and the Pacific
The golden apple snail has long been a serious agricultural pest in Taiwan. However, under what circumstances did they undertake the long journey to Taiwan from their native Argentina?
DATE2020.07.13
SpeciesecologyGolden Apple Snail
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An Account of Residency at Treasure Hill, a Hillside Fort beside Fuhe Bridge
Treasure Hill, despite its isolation, is a mirror that faithfully reflects the world at its feet. It emerges from a social experiment, containing utopian political imaginings and social ideals, caught between factional machinations and municipal directives, a product of the tension between social movements, authorities, and artists.
DATE2020.04.20
Treasure Hillcultural participationart intervention
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Precarity and Privilege: Artist Residencies in Latin America
Artists from all over the world seem more and more fascinated by Latin America: a paradoxical region with a historical absence of state cultural funding, but a strong artistic production and a hot art market, fueled by social inequality and money laundering.
DATE2020.01.21
IberoaméricaLatin AmericaArt Residency
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What Is Seen From The Art Awards In Asia
As the economic and political balance of the world has lessened the odds between the West + North America and Asia, new cultural and artistic discourses are set for this post-colonized and post-war continent.
DATE2019.06.01
Asian artPost-colonialSoutheast Asia
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Going Underground: What Is Happening to Beijing’s Famed Music Scene
Beijing is going through a weird moment right now, or rather, Beijing is going through a normal moment in a history of permanent impermanence.
DATE2019.05.23
Underground musicSubcultureurban renewal
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The Building of the Future
Winter was not the best season to visit Zagreb. An atmosphere of hibernation filled the half-vacant streets during the holiday. To many - even the locals - the cold weather could be a reason to feel depressed and anti-social.
DATE2019.02.01
cultural institutionCultural Ecosystem
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Performing Photography: Documenting Art in Myanmar
Photography aided the process of dissemination, as well as capturing fleeting moments in which musicians and artists were performing their most heartfelt expressions.
DATE2019.02.01
Photographycultural censorshiparchivePerformance
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Restart the Shabby Time-Space Volume: Observation of the Italian Lab, Esperienza Pepe
In terms of the historical background and reopening goals, Esperienza Pepe is similar to C-LAB, the former Air Force Command Headquarters. Built between 1591 and 1595, it used to be a military base known as Guglielmo Pepe.
DATE2018.11.09
Esperienza Pepecultural experimentcultural activismsocial innovation

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Cultural experimentation anticipates a disobedient attitude that facilitates cultural reversion and creative collision. When experiments become an attitude, a wide spectrum of cultural initiatives and fresh paths will unfold and extend like water, shock, sonic, light, or electric waves.

C-LAB hopes to showcase the cultures of contemporary creators, makers, sharers and participants to nurture a fresh ecology of cultural creation, which emerges as a cloud sharing platform for all contemporary readers, utilizing humanistic digital technologies while incorporating contemporary art perspectives as well as cultural observation to introduce innovation into society through culture.

CLABO, an online journal published by C-LAB, aims to create confluences of cultural creators and serve as a community platform for all partners of cultural experiment projects. With unprecedented cultural experiments, we have started bravely venturing into the future!
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EDITOR LIU Yu-ChingMANAGING EDITOR TUNG Yung-WeiEXECUTIVE EDITOR CHUANG Chia-Chuan

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