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“100 Ways to See Transgender” Exhibition Shares a Wide Range of Transgender Experiences

·November 11, 2022·6 min read

This past weekend, over 200 participants came to see the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights’ (TAPCPR) "看見跨性別藝文展 100 Ways to See Transgender" exhibition at 二空間 SPACE TWO. Since their first Transgender Film Festival in 2020, TAPCPR has made it a tradition to do larger scale public engagement programming around transgender issues every year in the month of November. Last year was the second Transgender Film Festival, and this year is the 100 Ways to See Transgender exhibition Read More

“Beitou Witch Magic Festival” Criticized Over Depiction of Indigenous

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·September 8, 2022·4 min read

A cultural event in Beitou has been criticized regarding Indigenous representation. Namely, the event, the “Beitou Witch Magic Festival”, draws on the history of female Indigenous mediums in Beitou Read More

An Insightful Look at Taiwan’s Explosion of Creativity in the 1980s at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

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·December 31, 2022·3 min read

“The Wild Eighties: Dawn of Transdisciplinary Taiwan,” which runs from December 3rd to February 26th at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, is a highly successful look into the artistic creativity of Taiwan’s 1980s. This was the period in which martial law was lifted in Taiwan, resulting in an unprecedented explosion of creative freedoms. Read More

Cannabis Decriminalization Advocates Rally on Ketagalan Boulevard

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·April 15, 2023·2 min read

Cannabis decriminalization advocates held a demonstration and fair on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building today. Organizers claimed 2,000 were in attendance. While the demonstration was to mark 420, the rally took place instead today because of the weekend. This is the fifth time such a demonstration has been held in Taiwan, with last year’s demonstration called off due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic Read More

Fake It Real Examines the Relation Between Truth and Fiction in the Age of Disinformation

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·October 5, 2022·2 min read

Fake It Real (真相碎片) is an intriguing exhibition at the Taipei Digital Art Center, which runs until October 10th. The majority of the exhibition, however, is not located at the Digital Art Center itself, but at the National Science Education Center. The exhibition concerns itself with the spread of fake news and disinformation globally, featuring works reflecting both Taiwanese and international artists Read More

Hung Tung: A Painter with a Curious Brush

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·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

Innovative VR storytelling at the Kaohsiung Film Festival 2021 Competition

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·January 12, 2022·5 min read

The Kaohsiung Film Festival is known for its fantasy-oriented selections of films, but in the last few years, it has sought to spotlight VR films. Apart from that the festival initiated a competition for VR films, it funds and supports Taiwanese VR projects and productions. It also opened the very first VR theatre in Taiwan—the Kaohsiung VR FILM LAB—bringing the latest and various VR films to the local audiences all year round Read More

Kinky Community Musical: Tongzhi Politics Meet BDSM, Asexuality, and Polyamory

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·September 2, 2022·9 min read

This past weekend, BDSM Company hosted four performances of “Kinky Community Musical 2.0" at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park. Written by Della Wang and directed by Hsiao-I Lu, "Kinky Community Musical 2.0” is a revised version of Wang’s first “Kinky Community Musical,” which debuted in late April 2019 just weeks before the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan. Featuring mesmerizing rope-binding scenes, catchy tunes in the form of twelve original songs, and gripping script writing, the play tells an intertwined love story of four main characters that pushes the boundaries of tongzhi politics to further incorporate Taiwan’s BDSM, asexual, and polyamory communities Read More

LAB KILL LAB

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·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

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

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·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

Staging Hakka-ness: ‘Stir-fry’ and its Path to New Identities

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·January 21, 2021·5 min read

“The winner of the 2020 National Hakka Stir-fry Culinary Competition goes to A-Wu’s Shop!”, announced Andre Chiang, the lead judge of the final round judges’ panel. The crowd cheered as the restaurant owner and chefs headed up to the stage to claim their trophy and banner Read More

The Dignity of Everyday Existence: Chen Cheng-Hsiung’s Anping, Peace, People Preliminary Exhibition

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·February 4, 2021·5 min read

The Tainan Art Museum has some of Chen Cheng-Hsiung's most well-known works on display currently. These pieces are from his mature period and are very fine examples of his work Read More