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The Polyvalent Work of Sid and Geri

·August 27, 2021·8 min read

Sid and Geri is a Taiwanese visual creator and maker of short films, exploring themes of identity, the body, and the peculiarities of human culture through the mixed mediums of animation, special effects, and live-action skits, often all spliced together into one jarring video Read More

LAB KILL LAB

Art English Events

·December 15, 2020·9 min read

The LAB KILL LAB project concept aims to “permit a well-defined working lab the possibility to be renewed, substituted, replaced, regenerated and retired as time progresses”. The concept is exemplified and laid out as five “work stations” at C-LAB in Taipei from the week of December 14 to December 20, 2020 Read More

Hung Tung: A Painter with a Curious Brush

Art Events

·January 26, 2021·7 min read

The Tainan Art Museum’s solo exhibition on Hung Tung, Re-presention of a Legend: Centennial Celebration of Hung Tung is quite comprehensive, with not only key pieces on display but also information about the media frenzy surrounding the artist 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

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

Memorializing the White Terror: The Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park

Art English

·March 9, 2021·6 min read

The Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park in Taipei is one of the two White Terror sites managed by the National Human Rights Museum. Without knowing Taiwan’s history, this park would look like a quaint college campus from a bygone era, but as the name of the park implies, this was a historical site dedicated to the legacy of White Terror, the very place where victims of White Terror were interrogated, tried, and imprisoned 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

Transitions, Articulated and Experienced

Art English

·May 21, 2021·6 min read

Hsien-Yu Cheng, a Taiwan-based artist, has been producing intriguing works at a pace hard for the Taipei tech arts circle to keep pace with Read More

展覽評論：裂縫．微光

Art Chinese Events

·January 12, 2021·1 min read

裂縫．微光——勢必與屋共亡的攝影展，對攝影、社會運動、貴族化問題，以及共同為社會更平等而奮鬥的人來說，是個難得的機會。台南的鐵路東移案件已經進行了 25 年，而黃春香的房子是最後的保留地。這次展覽在鬥爭現場舉行，並將一直持續到房屋被拆除為止。 Read More

Review: Cracks and Glimmers Photography (裂縫．微光——勢必與屋共亡的攝影展)

Art English Events

·January 12, 2021·5 min read

The struggle against the Tainan Railway Eastern Expansion has been ongoing for twenty-five years, and Huang Chun-Cian’s house is the very last holdout against eviction to expand the railway. This exhibition takes place at the very site of struggle and will continue until the house is torn down Read More