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Thoughts and observations on cultural trends and creative practices are collected. Authors are invited to write in-depth articles and commentaries, as well as accounts and reviews of cultural experimentation.
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Art and Climate Change: An Unexplored Field of Collaboration
Green-collar workers have sought alliances with arts and cultural workers to invoke the power of storytelling, making climate science more approachable and mobilizing the masses to practice climate actions. However, the tendency of seeing arts and culture workers as “storytellers” among Green-collar workers reflects flaws in existing climate action, and is not what arts and culture workers expect to achieve through their work. Contemporary art’s way of responding conceptually and through artistic action also does not meet the green-collar workers’ expectations of “solving rather than responding to the issue.”
DATE2022.10.12
climate changenet-zero emissionsart action
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Breaking down Moral Boundaries and Uncovering the Truth about Industrial Livestock Production, mEat me: Eat Your own Meat!?
Theresa SCHUBERT uses the body as an experimental subject, producing artificial meat through the regeneration of cells from her own body. This is her attempt to break down boundaries, including the divides between humans and animals and what is considered “civilized” and what is considered “savage.”
DATE2022.09.14
scientific and technical ethicsTechnology Artcultured meatThe Unrestricted Society
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More than a Music Festival: Artistic Actions and Attempts for Taiwan’s Historical Memory before Moving towards Co-existence
For Taiwan, an island with multiple ethnic groups and entangled history, perhaps there is still a long way to go in achieving genuine “co-existence.” At least to date, there remains nonetheless a group of people in Taiwan who strive to march forward.
DATE2022.08.03
228 Peace Memorial Dayhuman rightsGong Sheng Music FestivalmemoryTransitional Justice
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The Loss of Cultural Roots: “Subterranean Taiwan” Meets Relocation
In Taiwan, bōng-á, or grave, is a term both familiar and distant. However, the erection of each tomb highlights the substantial collection of cultural values of a place, and each property reflects the craftsmanship, economic status, familial qualities, and geographical features of a site.
DATE2022.05.04
graveyard culturecultural heritageÀm-khennhistory
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LONG LIVE K-PUNK: Mark FISHER in conversation with NERO, summer 2014
This interview, originally appeared on NERO in 2015 and published in 2018, is with the cultural theorist Mark FISHER (aka k-punk) to talk about the idea of the future itself in present-day society.
DATE2021.11.10
K-PunkFuture NostalgiavaporwaveHauntology
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A Modern Prometheus
The article is about the history of Processing by Casey REAS and Ben FRY, who were the founders of Processing Foundation.
DATE2021.10.11
codeProcessingMIT Media Lab
Review
We Engage in Poetry-based Dialogues with Migrant Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The poetry workshop was as much a new experiment as an opportunity to co-create and dialogue with migrant workers. As long as the pandemic continues and inequality persists, we will keep supporting and paying attention to migrant workers, and meanwhile teach them using different media to question the Taiwanese society and make their voices heard.
DATE2021.07.16
Trans/Voices Projectmigrant workerTaiwan Literature Award for Migrants poetry
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What can we summon from the “Re” standpoint? On the polyphonic scene and reenactment strategy of “Re: Play”
Re: Play proposes a Benjaminist issue for us to consider: If “live scene” is the battlefield to write history, then every past that cannot reconcile with itself is in danger of disappearing forever.
DATE2021.06.04
Re: PlayLive Artcuratorial practices
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How Art Communities Dance with COVID-19
Looking back on major art festivals, exhibitions, and events relevant to Bio Art over the past year, it is amazing to see ways in which the existence of this “viral” organism has catalyzed a plethora of new human experiences.
DATE2021.06.02
COVID-19Bio Artart community

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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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