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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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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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More Than Live Art—Re: Play
Live art forms the basis of Re: Play with works by 16 artists that combine behaviors, dances, plays, sounds, music, videos, lecture performances and workshops, breaking through conventional narrative forms and overthrowing existing knowledge.
DATE2020.10.19
Re: PlayArchivesLive Artbody
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It's about Experiencing: The 7th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition—ANIMA
The 7th TIVA－ANIMA is not about attracting attention through advanced technologies or resplendent and interactive images. Moreover, its intention is not to respond to the question of what an image is or the definition of image either.
DATE2020.10.14
ANIMATaiwan International Video Art Exhibitionvideo
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Virus, State of Exception, and Precarity: Reflections on the Contemporary Biopolitics
The spread of COVID-19 has ignited debates among philosophers on the prevention measures. This essay aims to clarify the discussions and reflects on the situation of contemporary biopolitics.
DATE2020.09.11
COVID-19precarityBiopolitics
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Why Look at Snails in Copulation? A Cross-Examination of Bio Art and Gender Perspectives
This article examines four Bio Art projects by artists collaborating with scientists and ecologists, reflecting on their explorations on aspects of gendered culture and anthropocentrism.
DATE2020.09.11
BioethicsBio Art
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Recognizing the Creative Potential of Bio Art Laboratories
This article projects a comprehensive picture of the state of Bio Art practice, collating different types of Bio Art laboratories including biohacking labs built by bio-artists, Bio Art labs constructed by cultural institutions, as well as the Bio Art practice in academic biological labs and the observation of Bio Art labs at the ideological level.
DATE2020.09.11
Bio ArtBio Art LabBiohackers
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Different Expressions of Park Spaces
—C-LAB’s Wonderland Outdoor Project
A series of installations of the Wonderland Outdoor Project in C-LAB have appeared to welcome the public.
DATE2020.08.12
Light Art projectEnvironmental Color DesignExperimental ArchitectureLandscape Installation

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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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