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Asia Triennial Manchester - Taipei Workshop


DURATION: 2014-01-19 ~ 2014-01-19
VENUE: Taipei Contemporary Art Center
ADDRESS: No.19-1, Andong St., Da’an Dist., 10666 Taipei

Asia Triennial Manchester - Taipei Workshop 2:00~4:00pm Discussion I : The Concealed Global Colonization and Legal Exploitation beneath the Ashes of History Host: YAO Jui-Chung (Taiwanese Artist) Speakers: KAO Jun-honn (Taiwanese Artist), CHENGMei-ya (Chair of Taipei Contemporary Art Center), JIANG Jie-hong (Curator of Asia Triennial Manchester), Amy CHENG (Curator) 4:00~4:30 pm Interval 4:30~6:30 pm Discussion II : The Art Performances Criticizing Social Domination and Their Messages Host: YAO Jui-Chung (Taiwanese Artist) Speakers: CHEN Chieh-Jen (Taiwanese Artist), Sun Yi-Jou (Taiwanese Artist), Lindsay Taylor, Sarah Fisher (Curator of Asia Triennial Manchester) YAO Jui-Chung was born in 1969 in Taipei. He graduated from The National Institute of the Arts (Taipei National University of Arts) with a degree in Art Theory. In 1997, he represented Taiwan with his photography work, “ Territory Takeover, ” at the Venice Biennale, showed his talent and received great response. He keeps creating with the method, photography. No matter a simple flat image or a solid display combining with installations, Yao takes advantages of images to reveal the hidden reality to investigate different issues in the field of history, society and so on. For Yao, photography serves as many functions which not only collect personal experiences and record memories, but also shoulder the obligation and duty to improve the society. Photography has the power of awakening people and facilitating social, political and economic developments. He expects to break the boundary of lens frame and to raise audiences’ attention and concern about the issue. He was nominated as Best Art Director Award of Golden Horse Award by Edward Yang’s film, A Confucian Confusion . From 2010 to 2013, Yao led his students to conduct the investigation of the “Mosquitoes Buildings (disused spaces)” in Taiwan. Each year they discovered more than 100 cases and published a series of books, “Mirage I-III: Disused Public Property in Taiwan,” with more than 600 pages in each book. This research shows the absurd circumstances of Taiwan society and embodies the fact that “improper policies are more harmful than bribery and corruption”. KAO Jun-Honn was born in Taipei in 1973 and graduated from Taipei National University of Art in 2001. Since 1990s, he has been using art action as a creating medium. In 2004, KAO received the fellowship from the Ministry of Culture and went to various cities in Germany for his creation. KAO is now a candidate of Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory in Tainan National University of the Art, a program director of Research in the occupation of Eastern Asia Art, and a board member of Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC). Meiya CHENG (b. 1975,) is a freelance curator, and now the chair of Taipei Contemporary Art Center. She lives and works in Taipei. She has worked as the curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (2006-2008.) Her selected curated exhibitions include : Augmenting the World (the 6th Taipei Digital Art Festival, international section, 2011), Trading Futures(co-curated with Pauline Yao, TCAC, 2012), Urban Nomad Film Festival Video Art Section (TCAC, 2010). Her latest exhibition is the 6th Queens International (co-curated with Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum, NYC). Cheng focuses on the exchange mechanism and the power relationship of labor and value in the process of creating, and the structural issues in art production. She intends to discuss the possibilities of creating an open structure in institutions, and if such models could serve as a mechanism to create changes in the system. Therefore, she participates in the establishment and operation of Taipei Contemporary Art Center. She manages to develop an open structure in collaboration model so as to gather an art community and to operate this experimental art institution together. She was invited to participate in many forums and seminars, including Asia Triennial Manchester: Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), Asia Pacific Triennial (2012) and so on. She has contributed in magazines ARTCO (Taiwan), Art and Investment (China) and Broadsheet (Australia)?. In 2013, she was the major editor of the reader, “Does Europe Matters?” (a part of the project, Europe (to the power of) n, directed by Barbara Steiner). JIANG Jie-Hong is the professor of Chinese Art and the founding director of Chinese Visual Arts Centre at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in Birmingham City University, where he is as well the Ph D. student supervisor. Also, he is a guest professor at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou). Jiang Jie-Hong curates contemporary Chinese art exhibitions in China and the UK, including recently the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial: the Unseen (Guangzhou, 2012); Guanxi I (Guangzhou: Guangdong Museum of Art, 2011); Guanxi II (Beijing: Today Art Museum,2011); Beyond Memory: Contemporary Photography in China (Beijing: CAFA Museum of Art, 2010); the Tale of Angels (London: Red Mansion Foundation, 2009) and Collective Identity (Manchester: Chinese Arts Centre and Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, 2007). He is the editor of Burden or Legacy: from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007), Guanxi: A Collection of Letters with Twelve Artists (Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group, 2011) and the Unseen (Guangzhou: Lingnan Art Publishing House, 2012), and the author of the Revolution Continues: New Art from China (London: Jonathan Cape and the Saatchi Gallery, 2008), Red: China’s Cultural Revolution (London: Jonathan Cape, 2010), and A Decade Long Exposure: the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Contemporary Photography (Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Group, 2010). Amy CHENG, born in 1970, is an independent curator and art critic. Amy Cheng lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. From 1997 to 1999, Cheng served as a lecturer of western art history at Fu-Jen Catholic University. From 2000 to 2005, she lived in Vancouver, Canada and worked as a feature writer for Taiwan ARTCO magazine, where she currently works as the leading feature writer. Since 2003, Amy Cheng has curated exhibitions, including Ruins and Civilization in Taipei (2004); the 2004 Taipei Biennial: Do You Believe in Reality? (co-curated); Altered States in Taipei (2006); THTP/Phase Five/Oversight/2008 at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2008); Traversing the Fantasy at Taipei`s TheCube Project Space (2010); Taiwan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale: The Heard & The Unheard: Soundscape Taiwa n (Venice, 2011); Re-envisioning Society Series Exhibitions (Taiepi, 2012-13); Unhomely: Tales of the Island (Manchester, 2012); The 3rdTaiwan International Video Art Exhibition: Melancholy in Progress (co-curated, 2012), and Shamans and Dissent (Hong Kong, 2013). In 2009, Cheng undertook the one-year project, Critical Political Art and Curatorial Practice Research, as well as established the related website and released the publication, Art and Society: Introducing Seven Contemporary Artists . With the music and cultural critic, Jeph Lo, she founded Taipei`s TheCube Project Space in 2010, which aims to explore local culture, to study Taiwan sound culture, to establish long-term relationships with artists and to promote contemporary art exchanges between Taiwan and the international community. CHEN Chieh-Jen was born in 1960 in Taoyuan, Taiwan and graduated from a vocational high school for the arts. He currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. Chen`s primary media of creations is video installation. His works were internationally exhibited in some major art events or exhibitions. Chen believes that with the long-term domination and the overlapping of multiple sovereignty in historical and political situation, people’s spirit has been completely broken and the society turns out to lose itself and be unable to reflect on the past and to look forward at the future. Back to creating in 1996, Chen started collaborating with local residents, unemployed laborers, day workers, migrant workers, foreign spouses, unemployed youth and social activists. He formed a temporary community and a filmmaking team with those marginalized by society, social activists and filmmakers. They have learned from each other, occupied factories owned by capitalists, slipped into areas cordoned off by the law and utilized discarded materials to build sets for his video productions. In order to visualize contemporary reality and people’s history that was obscured by a society of the spectacle, Chen embarks on a series of video projects with the concept of “re-imagining, re-narrating, re-writing and re-connecting.” Sun Yi Jou, born in 1988, is a freelance artist. Sun graduated from Taipei National University of Arts. Her exhibition, “ TFAM: Taipei Flat Arts Museum ”, exhibition of installation, video, photo and document (Taipei Contemporary Art Center, 2011), was set up at the square in front of Taipei Fine Arts Museum for five weeks. This work was created in order to taunt with the scandal of the museum. Her important group exhibitions include: 2012 Zhongshan Park Project and Memory of a City of 9thShanghai Biennale (Shanghai, 2012). Sarah Fisher is the Director of Centre for Chinese Contemporary (formerly Chinese Arts Centre), and she has previously worked as the Head of Visual Arts for Arts Council, NW? and as a freelance arts consultant for a range of arts organizations and agencies.She is also as an artist and lecturer at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art in London. She is currently the Chair of FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Liverpool and Axisweb, Leeds?. Lindsay Taylor is a British art curator. She is responsible for leading the development and the implement of the strategic vision for the contemporary art collection at the University of Salford. She has instigated a number of key partnerships, including the collaboration with the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester and the project with Islington Mill, the leading artist of cross-disciplinary organization in Salford. Lindsay is interested in artistic practice that is about “the now” and is focusing on creations in 3 main areas: 1) Contemporary Chinese Art, in partnership with the CFCCA, making response to ‘China`s century’; 2) About the Digital, reflecting the presence of University at MediaCity UK and the practice of using new technologies and 3) Artists in the North of England, supporting and developing the artistic ecology of the area. Lindsay has been in post since May 2013. She is in charge of Cao Fei’s Haze and Fog with the CFCCA in 2013 and is working with the CFCCA on the Asia Triennial exhibition for 2014. Previously, she led the contemporary art exhibition programs at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston, including the development of the new media artwork. Earlier positions include at Tate Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool (Walker Art Gallery). Lindsay is a board member of IOU, a company based in Yorkshire that creates multi-disciplinary artwork for the public realm, and is the co-chair of Contemporary Visual Arts Manchester Network.