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Keting Kurt CHEN of the Collectors
Co-Space: A Return to the Hometown or Stirring the Pond? The Courage to Leap in
Having participated in agricultural technical assistance work in countries of the Caribbeans and the Pacific islands, Keting Kurt CHEN returns to Taiwan to seeks out traditional wisdom in coexisting with nature, and sets up the Collectors Co-Space in Pinglin.
DATE2022.04.27
collectionthe Collectors Co-Spaceplantssustainability
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Talum Ispalidav: Buan Is Talking, Wielding Words as Scalpels, the Critical Voices of Aboriginal Youth in Contemporary Times
Established in July 2020, Buan Is Talking leverages the social media to raise awareness of issues relating to Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
DATE2022.01.19
indigenous peoplesmedia empowermentpolicy advocacy
Review
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
Encounter
A Hometown Seen as an Adopted Country, a Homecoming Akin to Taking up Residence. Does Your Mother Know You’re Messing about?
Whether it’s an art residence or art residency, there will always be gazes exchanged and experiences shared, leading on to self-discovery and self-acceptance. At this point, what are the possibilities of imagination towards art residences?
DATE2021.08.05
art practiceart festivalWalking Grass Agriculture
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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YANG Ye: An Unofficial Cultural Historian like Me
Always enthusiastic to take to the mountains in search of the next artifact, YANG Ye has devoted 30 odd years to his line of cultural history studies, making it his life’s work.
DATE2021.06.09
Beitou-yaki cultural history studies cultural artifact
Review
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
Review
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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Peer across the Ocean and Bask in Matsu’s Unsayable Time and History
Being a potential World Heritage site, undergoing numerous regeneration of historic sites, and located on the East Asian island chain (the first island chain) in the Cold War era, Matsu’s continued debate on topics such as preserving its military heritage, its collective military/civilian memory and narrative from the military administration period, and the revitalization of decommissioned military buildings, all seek to find a win-win or even an all-win scenario between native historical context and regional revitalization.
DATE2021.05.12
regional revitalizationwartime culturecultural preservation
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GUO Yi-Ru’s Museological Knowledge Sharing Bar
When people search “The Museum Bar” on Facebook, they will discover a whole new world of museology which encompasses polices concerning museums at home and abroad, and museum-related information such as introductions to artworks and return of artifacts. This generous platform states its mission as follows: “Knowledge sharing is the prime objective of ‘The Museum Bar,’ since knowledge is a public good.”
DATE2021.04.07
museologycultural equityknowledge sharing
Review
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: PlayarchiveLive Artbody
Review
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
Review
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
Review
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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