Commissioned curator Esther Lu (b. 1977) is a Taiwanese freelance curator based in Taipei. Lu studied literature and art history, and completed an MA at Goldsmiths College and curatorial studies in CuratorLab, Konstfack University. She is interested in exploring practices to mobilize connections and conversations inside and outside of institutions. Her conceptual experiments often address the agency of art and initiate alternative artistic productions in between social scenes in reality and platforms of art in order to investigate the critical role of art today.

Artists:

Chia-Wei Hsu (Taiwan, b. 1983) lives and works in Taipei. Hsu graduated from the Graduate School of Plastic Art, National Taiwan University of Arts. His artistic practice investigates the subject of imagery and narrative through video installation to expose contemporary mechanisms of spectacle production while addressing memory, imagination, identity, and other cultural connections to filming sites. The juxtaposition of performance and event in the narratives of video and installation creates a wormhole, weaving together reality and imagination.

Bernd Behr (Taiwan/ Germany, b. 1976) is based in London, UK. Born in Hamburg, Germany and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at Goldsmiths College, London. Working across video, photography, sculpture, and writing, his practice operates a speculative archaeology at the historical junctures of images, narratives and the built environment. Often engaging with specific architectural sites and their associative histories, his work inserts itself into these subjects through modes of research and fiction.

Kateřina Šedá (Czech Republic, b. 1977) lives and works in Brno. Šedá’s work often engages a community to explore subjects of relationships, cultural identity, and daily politics in an urban setting. Through creating social games and social sculpture, she invites individuals from a local community to participate in a process to resolve real, shared issues. When this process becomes a switching point to overturn reality and inspire new perceptions, the participatory experience becomes a process of subjectification: a new reality is born from a game. Šedá’s practice sheds light on humanity and a better common tomorrow.

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has organized the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale since 1995.

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Exhibition poster image, phase one.
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