2021 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Lee Mingwei: Six Stories   Artist LEE Mingwei (李明維) Born in Taiwan in 1964 and currently living in Paris and New York City, Lee Mingwei creates participatory installations, where strangers can explore issues of trust, intimacy, and self-awareness, and one-on-one events, in which visitors contemplate these issues with the artist through eating, sleeping, walking and conversation. Lee's projects are often open-ended scena...

2021 Spotlight Taiwan  Lecture on Contemporary Art LIQUEERED: THE PERFORMANCE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF LIQUEFIED QUEERNESS Lecture by ARTIST YU Cheng-Ta (余政達) This lecture will be live streamed on Youtube Yu Cheng-Ta (b. 1983, Taiwan) The Taipei-based multimedia artist Yu Cheng-Ta’s work often involves verbal communication with the subjects and viewers in a playful manner to create the concept of “life theatre”, that is, deliberately setting u...

13th September 2019 Father to Son 范保德 Director HSIAO Ya-Chuan / 2018 / Taiwan / 115 mins Screening followed by Director's Q&A Van Pao-Te, who is now 60 years old, finds himself suffering from a serious illness, instead of getting treatment, he decides to go to Japan to look for his father who abandoned him 50 years ago with the accompany of his son. At the same time, a young man from Hong Kong who is somehow related to Van Pao-Te’s past co...

Taiwan Academy Lecture Interbreeding: The Vitality of Taiwan's Art Group after 1990s   Lecture by Professor Ava Hsueh   Photo credit to Joy Chuang Prof. Ava Hsueh obtained her D.A. degree of School of Education, Department of Art and Art Professions in New York University; currently serves as the Honorary Professor in Tainan National University of the Arts. She has been appointed as the Director of Na...

Taiwan Academy Lecture From The Concept of Social Sculpture to The Public Art in Taiwan-My Artistic Journey Lecture by Artist Mali Wu Chaired by Marko Daniel, Tate Modern Ma-Li Wu (Mali Wu 吳瑪悧) lives and works in Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan. After graduating from the National Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Wu returned to Taiwan in 1986 to a new environment and this inspired her to reconsider the artist’s role in society. As a conceptual artist, Mali Wu, creates...

Today’s Ink Art in Korea and Taiwan   Prof. Junghee Moon 文貞姬 Moon, Junghee, Director, Center for Art Studies, Seoul, Korea, Guest Prof. Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, College of Visual Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. Prof. Junghee Moon Received a Ph.D. from Central Academy Of Fine Arts in Beijing, China (1997). She previously taught in the Seoul National University and Ewha Women’s University before becoming th...

Art and Translation Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea   International Symposium 28–29 October 2017 School of History of Art, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland In Collaboration With Art In Translation Journal and The Taiwan Academy   Symposium Poster Click Here Full Programme and Abstract: Art in Translation programme Free Admission, RSVP Required (email: L.Hsu@ed.ac.uk) This symposium plans to open up the discussion in art of the Post-China e...

Event Programme 2017 Godspeed (一路順風)              Mong-Hong Chung / Taiwan / 2016 / 1h51min Michael Hui, Na-Dou Lin, Leon Dai   DATE : 22/06/2017 & 24/06/2017 VENUE : Cineworld Fountain Park Edinburgh   The Receptionist (接線員) & Post-screening Q&A with Film Director Jenny Lu  Jenny Lu / Taiwan / 2017 / 102 mins  Teresa Daley, Chen Shiang Chyi, Josh Whitehouse DATE : 26/06/2017 & 27/06/2017 VENUE :...