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The Immersive Aesthetics of Performing Arts in Taiwan
The actor-spectator relationship have changed from confining the spectators to their seats into treating them as the trigger and propeller of the performances.
DATE2020.03.30
public engagementimmersive aestheticsPerforming Art
Review
Virtual Reality and the Three Modalities That Shaped the World
If “virtual reality” is not simply a “technique” but also a “medium” capable of “shaping the world,” what would such a world look like?
DATE2020.03.30
immersive aestheticscyberspacevirtual reality
Review
With to Without Walls: C-LAB’s Open New Look
In September 2019, the Ministry of Culture began tearing down the walls that surround C-LAB and carrying out landscape improvements. Welcome to this culture and aesthetics park in the heart of the city.
DATE2020.03.27
public engagementOpennesscultural innovation
Review
Immersive Theatre: From Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk to Nazi Germany’s Wars
Is theatre always supposed to be immersive? In fact, in the very beginning, theatre is about the act of viewing. The word theatre originates from “theatron,” meaning “a place for viewing [spectacles].”
DATE2020.03.18
immersive aestheticsGesamtkunstwerkWagner
Encounter
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
Review
Investigating Translation from the Dimension of “Fansub Groups”
Translation is the core activity of fansub groups. From the perspectives of linguistics and anthropology, translation is a “manner of becoming” that represents texts in new social and cultural contexts.
DATE2019.12.04
Post-colonialPiracy and Fansub Groups
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The Circulation, Politics and Variants of Unofficial Subtitles
Fansub groups are often equated with copyright infringement from a legal point of view. However, their operations are based not so much on stereotypical piracy as on non-profit altruism.
DATE2019.12.04
altruismPiracy and Fansub Groupsunofficial communication
sketch
Yumi GOTO: A Curator of Exhibitions and Photobooks
Yumi GOTO started the series of bookmaking workshop “Photobook as Object” in Tokyo in 2014 and “Masterclass” in 2015. In the interview, she shares with us how she steps into the world of photobooks and starts to organize workshops in Japan.
DATE2019.12.02
workshopphotobookmemory
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Notes on What-Determines-What
The new-age cultures meet the horrors of policing and algorithms. This pairing contains, along with an uncanny summoning of a sort of Nostrodamous-like magic, two points on a spectrum which we could term ‘a spectrum of determinism,’ two markers on a map of efficient causality.
DATE2019.11.25
Anti-racismdeterminismalgorithm
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Wood LIN: From Writing to Curating—The Journey of Documentary Filmmaking
Wood LIN began his career as a film critic and now has many years’ experience planning and producing documentary films. While his earlier works touched on a diverse range of subjects and issues, he has more recently focused primarily on promoting many diverse and experimental documentary film works that reflect the curatorial perspective.
DATE2019.10.31
TIDFcultural experimentdocumentary film
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Lightbox Photo Library: Not Just a Library
Since its establishment in 2016, the Lightbox Photo Library team has been open to the public, bringing together cultural knowledge and energy and promoting exchanges.
DATE2019.10.22
libraryPhotographyfreedom of knowledge
Review
Monsters and Postcolonial Taiwan Reinvention of Folklore Tradition in the Works of Fevervine Dance Theatre
Folk legends and rumors such as “Sister Lin Tou” and “Mô-sîn-á” eventually became part of the representation in the official context of Taiwanese history. Whereas trends and crazes for monsters prevail in the literary world, few theatrical pieces thematizing monsters and the mythical in folklores are seen in Taiwanese contemporary theater.
DATE2019.09.02
Post-colonialdocumentary theatreReconstructing the Paranormal
Review
The Age of Supernatural Monsters Roaming the City
As supernatural monsters roam the city in a non-quotidian fashion, they intend not so much to leave it in ruins and await the return of the ancient storm as to seek the fusion of tradition and contemporaneity.
DATE2019.09.02
Latin American LiteraturemodernityReconstructing the Paranormal
Review
Taiwan Literature as a Window on the Paranormal
Ghosts, ghouls, and other residents of “shadowy realms” have long inspired creativity. However, the process of social modernization has already led to the irreversible loss of many traditional tales of the bizarre and paranormal.
DATE2019.09.02
Yao-Chi CityReconstructing the Paranormalparanormal literature
Review
Future Library for Cultural Experiments: A Reflection on “Yao-Chi City” as a Bridge between Literature and Art
A shift can be seen in what “Yao-Chi City” handles in terms of bridging between literature and art: How can contemporary art get involved in the world of contemporary paranormal literature?
DATE2019.09.02
Yao-Chi Citycultural experimentReconstructing the Paranormal

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