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Immortality

·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”

Art English

·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

The Polyvalent Work of Sid and Geri

Art Design English

·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

回顧〈岔派樂基因〉

Art Chinese

·June 1, 2021·2 min read

台北的「台灣當代文化實驗場」（C-LAB）在 2020 年底開展了鄭淑麗（Shu Lea Cheang）所策畫的 LAB KILL LAB，部份活動也在線上同時進行。其中策展人四方幸子（Yukiko Shikata）以及麥可・康納（Michael Connor）邀集十組創作者以〈派樂基因〉（PiraGene）為參照，進行展演實驗。五組在 C-LAB 場地以及線上進行一週，另五組則由 Rhizome 以網站方式呈現，這些工作稱為〈岔派樂基因〉（Forking PiraGene）。 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：白色恐怖景美紀念園區

Art Chinese

·March 30, 2021·1 min read

位於台北的白色恐怖景美紀念園區，是國家人權博物館管理的兩個白色恐怖園區之一。如果不了解台灣的歷史，這個公園看起來就像是一個古樸的老校園，但是正如園區名稱所顯示的，這是專為紀念白色恐怖的歷史遺跡。白色恐怖受害者正是在這裡接受審訊、審判和監禁（槍殺現場在不同地點，現已拆除）。 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