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The Ingenious Nobuyoshi Araki Reenactments: Manbo Key, Transgression of Queer

·March 8, 2023·16 min read

Regarding Japanese photographer, contemporary artist Nobuyoshi Araki, I will discuss how the latecomers—Ren Hang, the Chinese photographer, and Manbo Key, Taiwanese photographer influenced by Araki, reenact his transgression but at the same time create something novel Read More

From Cross-Strait Provocateur to Memelord?: Chen Shui-bian’s Recent Memes

Art English Life

·February 24, 2023·4 min read

Chen Shui-bian has gone from a perceived cross-strait provocateur to memelord, as of late, with a series of viral images posted by Chen on Instagram and Facebook Read More

Aesthetics and Politics in 2022 Campaigning

Art English

·November 25, 2022·4 min read

This year's election continued much of the same aesthetic tropes as previous elections. As with past years, it was the DPP that focused on aesthetics that could outreach to young people, and maintained the modernist aesthetic that has characterized pan-Green campaign advertising since the Tsai administration took power. While the KMT has significantly modernized its aesthetic in recent years, it is still the DPP that proved the more experimental in election advertising Read More

Impressions of the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival (TAxT)

Art English

·October 1, 2022·5 min read

The month-long extravaganza of the Taoyuan Art x Technology Festival is being held until October 9th at the Taoyuan Arts Center in northern Taiwan Read More

Taiwan’s Ecological History as Performance: The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age

Art English Interviews

·July 10, 2022·6 min read

New Bloom/No Man is an Island’s Brian Hioe interviewed artists Kappa Tseng and Chiang Tao about her recent art project, “The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age" Read More

Immortality

Art English Life

·March 8, 2022·13 min read

For a week she stood inside a room at the Taichung train station. There was something quietly defiant about her stance, left foot crossed over her right, the weight of her body slightly on the back foot, as if she were just about to take a small step forward. Her chin tilted up so that her eyes, not fully shut, received light and her eyelids were pearly and diaphanous. She held a soft gaze, not focusing on anything in particular, but able to take in everything Read More

Future Media Arts Festival Presents Engaging Takes on Incipient Futures

Art English

·November 17, 2021·1 min read

The Future Media Arts Festival at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, or C-Lab, offers a panoply of attempts to investigate the new, digital future that we seem to be hurtling toward. This is presented across multiple buildings and in a variety of formats, ranging from installations to video art Read More

轉換的闡述與體驗——評鄭先喻北美館個展「Injector after NULL」

Art Chinese

·October 29, 2021·1 min read

臺灣藝術家鄭先喻正以臺北科技藝術圈難以企及的步調創作引人入勝的作品。他於 2019 年獲得第二屆銅鐘藝術賞，並於 2020 年夏季於臺灣當代文化實驗場 (C-LAB) 舉辦該獎項的個展。接著，於 2020 年 12 月加入由 C-LAB 舉辦、鄭淑麗策展的「LAB KILL LAB 」實驗計畫，參與〈米學院之米蟲革命〉的製作。目前鄭先喻正於臺北市立美術館舉辦個展「Injector after Null」，展出期間 3 月 17 日至 7 月 4 日。 Read More

A Look into the Life of a Taiwanese Leftist Revolutionary

Art English

·October 22, 2021·2 min read

The Su Beng Memorial Museum is small, occupying the two-floor apartment in Xinzhuang that Su Beng lived in at the time of his death in 2019. The museum may not offer any new insights for those familiar with Su’s life, but the history it displays is still revealing. Read More

A Haunting Meditation on Fukushima: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Is Your Time”

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·October 19, 2021·2 min read

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s art installation, “Is Your Time,” proves a powerful meditation on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. This is presented through the piano at the centerpiece of the installation, which was discovered by Sakamoto in the ruins of a building in the affected Fukushima prefecture, left behind by its owners—wherever they might be now. The art installation is currently showing in the Taipei Music Center until November 14th, after having already been shown in Tokyo and Beijing Read More

Toward an Architecture of Sound

Art English Interviews

·October 12, 2021·8 min read

Editor Brian Hioe spoke with Petr Danda, a Czech artist currently doing a residency at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, about his ongoing Soundctuary (音廟) project. The following article originally appeared on Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform, on October 8th. More collaborations between No Man is an Island/New Bloom and Electric Soul will be coming up! Read More

Stories of Survival from the Origin of the City

Art English

·October 8, 2021·3 min read

“A Century of Craftsmanship—The Wanhua Story” is a modest exhibition, occupying two small rooms in the Bopiliao Historic Block. However, the exhibition takes on new relevance following the COVID-19 outbreak that began in May. The outbreak began in Wanhua, among tea parlors that sometimes involve sex work, and then continued to linger in the area, spreading to the First Fruit and Vegetable Market and Huannan Market in southern Wanhua Read More