ART Archives - Spotlight Tawian

International Conference: A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art and Its Global Connections

04/11/2025

Posted on May 9, 2025October 26, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

Free Event, Registration is Required: Register Here International Conference A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art and Its Global Connections 3-4 November 2025 Lecture Theatre 2.55, Edinburgh Future Institute University of Edinburgh 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, United Kingdom *In-Person Conference* This international con...

Hospice Care of the Post-Republican 《姚瑞中：後民國的臨終關懷》

06/11/2025

Posted on April 14, 2025August 14, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

2025 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Hospice Care of the Post-Republican 《姚瑞中：後民國的臨終關懷》 Artist Jui-Chung YAO Confronted with the inferiority complex shaped by Taiwan’s unique history and distorted society, ordinary people—me included, an indignant middle-aged man—are left powerless. This led to the creation of projects such as Territory Take Over (1994), whi...

THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RUINS 廢墟的政治地理學

05/11/2025

Posted on April 14, 2025August 14, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

Venue: 2.55 Edinburgh Future Institute, University of Edinburgh 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, United Kingdom 2025 Spotlight Taiwan Conference Keynote Lectures THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RUINS 廢墟的政治地理學 JUI-CHUNG YAO（姚瑞中） As civilisation develops and changes, abandoned spaces inevitably emerge. Ordinary people call them...

WITHIN THE PULSE OF TIME: AVA HSUEH’S ABSTRACT PAINTING 此時彼刻 — 薛保瑕的抽象繪畫

04/11/2025

Posted on April 13, 2025August 14, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

Venue: 2.55 Edinburgh Future Institute, University of Edinburgh 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF, UK 2025 Spotlight Taiwan Conference Keynote Lectures WITHIN THE PULSE OF TIME: AVA HSUEH’S ABSTRACT PAINTING 此時彼刻 — 薛保瑕的抽象繪畫 AVA PAO-SHIA HSUEH（薛保瑕） Time is not unidirectional but, by contrast, shuttles back and forth between num...

Challenge Biomedical Paradigm Through Art and Design

18/09/2025

Posted on April 13, 2025July 14, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

2025 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Challenge Biomedical Paradigm Through Art and Design by Kuang-Yi KU (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) In this talk, artist and designer Kuang-Yi Ku will present a selection of bio-art and speculative design projects developed in collaboration with scientists and medical professionals. His work explores themes of the human body, sexual...

Re-Shooting

29/05/2025

Posted on April 6, 2025May 2, 2025 by Li-Heng Hsu

2025 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Series Time: 29 May 2025 14:15-15:15 Venue: 2.35 | Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI), 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh EH3 9EF Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-spotlight-taiwan-lecture-artist-hui-yu-su-tickets-1317205028699?aff=oddtdtcreator Re-Shooting Artist SU Hui-Yu (蘇匯宇) In recent years, Su Hui-Yu has employed th...

Narration of Non-Conversational Portraits: Home and “Unhomely in Taiwanese Video Art 臺灣錄像藝術中的「家」與「非家」

11/10/2024

Posted on July 18, 2024October 6, 2024 by Li-Heng Hsu

2024 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Time: 11 October 2024 15:00-16:00 (followed by the screening of films) Venue: 5.21 Project Room, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF, United Kingdom Narration of Non-Conversational Portraits -“Home” and “Unhomely” in Taiwanese Video Art This talk focuses on exploring and ana...

SELF-EXOTICISM 異己國情調

19/09/2024

Posted on July 18, 2024August 19, 2024 by Li-Heng Hsu

2024 Spotlight Taiwan Taiwan Lecture, University of Edinburgh 2024 History of Art Research Seminar, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Time: 19 September 2024 17:15-18:15, followed by a drink reception Venue: The Hunter Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9DF, United Kingdom *The event is sp...

Art/Movement as a Public Platform: Study on Contemporary Art and Social Movement 『藝術/運動』作為公共：當代藝術與社會運動之間

16/10/2023

Posted on September 1, 2023October 15, 2023 by Li-Heng Hsu

2023 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture 16 October 2023 13:10-15:00 UK Time (Online) Join Zoom Meeting https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8826522640 Meeting ID: 882 652 2640 Passcode: TALK1009 Art/Movement as a Public Platform: Study on Contemporary Art and Social Movement 『藝術/運動』作為公共：當代藝術與社會運動之間 Professor LU Pei-Yi（呂佩怡） “Art / Movement as a Public Platform: A Study of Contempo...

Revelation and Notification of Pey-Chwen Lin’s New Media Art “Eve Clone Series” 林珮淳「夏娃克隆」新媒體藝術的啟示與警世

21/09/2023

Posted on July 31, 2023August 11, 2024 by Li-Heng Hsu

2023 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Abstract I will share the concept and the video of my solo exhibition “Revelation of Eve Clone” held at the Tainan Art Museum 2019- 2020, as well as my new work “Eve Clone Wannsee Conference” in the 2023 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture. The curator of my solo Dr. Ming Turner stated that Pey-Chwen...

Living with Sky, Water and Mountain: A Path towards Freedom

04/10/2022

Posted on May 17, 2022August 1, 2023 by Li-Heng Hsu

Spotlight Taiwan 2022 Lecture Series ( Livestream via Zoom) Join Zoom Meeting: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89441103770 Meeting ID: 894 4110 3770 Passcode: Spotlight2 Abstract Fieldoffice Architects (hereinafter referred to as Fieldoffice) rooted in the landscape of Yilan is an "alliance of gathered will" of nearly thirty people that is steadily growing ...

LIFEWORKS 1978-1999

21/09/2022

Posted on May 17, 2022August 1, 2023 by Li-Heng Hsu

2022 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Tehching Hsieh: LIFEWORKS 1978-1999 Abstract My performance work shows different perspectives of thinking about life, but these perspectives are all based on the same precondition: Life is a life sentence Life is passing time Life is freethinking About the Speaker Tehching Hsieh was born in 1950 in Nan-Chou, Taiwan. Hsieh ...

Drawing and Being Drawn by Emotions

11/10/2022

Posted on May 6, 2022August 1, 2023 by Li-Heng Hsu

Join Zoom Meeting: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87170222132 Meeting ID: 871 7022 2132 Passcode: Spotlight1 Artist Pei-Hsin CHO will share with the audience her process of creating comics, picture books and animations for multiple media. Her talk will guide us to her inner world full of emotion, sentiment, and pass...

Imagination: The Wonderland of Picture Books 幻。畫: 繪本的奇藝世界

13/10/2022

Posted on May 6, 2022August 1, 2023 by Li-Heng Hsu

2022 Spotlight Taiwan Lecture Su-Hsing Lin: Imagination: The Wonderland of Picture Books Abstract The study on "Picture Book" began and then flourished in Britain in the late 19th century, subsequently surging into the art community in Japan. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, works of many prominent European and American thinkers and painters were extensively published ...

Lee Mingwei: Six Stories

06/10/2021

Posted on May 5, 2021July 15, 2022 by Li-Heng Hsu

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 thr...

LIQUEERED: THE PERFORMANCE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD OF LIQUEFIED QUEERNESS 擬酷液得：液態化的酷兒展演

13/07/2021

Posted on May 5, 2021July 15, 2022 by Li-Heng Hsu

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) 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 “li...

Tomorrowland 袁廣鳴//明日樂園

16/11/2020

Posted on April 2, 2020June 15, 2021 by Li-Heng Hsu

Taiwan Academy Lecture Tomorrowland Lecture by Professor Yuan Goang-Ming Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1965 Now lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan A pioneer of video art in Taiwan, Yuan Goang-Ming has worked with video since 1984, and is now one of the foremost Taiwanese artists active in the international media art circle. He received a master’s de...

When Past Becomes Future and History Becomes Art 高千惠//未終結的過去進行式

Posted on April 2, 2020September 25, 2020 by Li-Heng Hsu

Taiwan Academy Lecture When Past Becomes Future and History Becomes Art Lecture by Chien-Hui Kao How to tell an art story, which has experienced modernism, colonialism and globalism since aftermath to now? Taking the exhibition “Once Upon A Time－Unfinished Progressive Past” as the case study, this talk wishes to reinvestigate the unresolved issue loaded with the following ...

The Algorithm of Gender & Sexuality in the Digital Age 鄭淑麗//數位時代性慾與性別的算法

02/10/2019

Posted on May 10, 2019May 5, 2021 by Li-Heng Hsu

Taiwan Academy Lecture The Algorithm of Gender & Sexuality in the Digital Age Lecture by Shu Lea Cheang Cheang constructs networked installation and multi-player performance in participatory impromptu mode. She draft sci-fi narratives in film scenario and artwork imagination. She also builds the social interface with transgressive plots and open netwo...

Interbreeding: The Vitality of Taiwan’s Art Group after 1990s 薛保瑕//插枝接枝 - 90年代後臺灣藝術團體的活力

26/09/2019

Posted on May 6, 2019May 5, 2021 by Li-Heng Hsu

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 i...

Taiwan Animation Festival 2018 2018台灣動漫節

24/06/2018

Posted on May 22, 2018October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Screening and Director's Q & A 19, 21 and 22 June 14:00-15:30, Hunter Lecture Theatre, 74 Lauriston Place 20, 23 and 24 June 14:00-15:30, Museum of Fire, 76-78 Lauriston Place Animation Director Ching-Hsuan Lin Ching-Hsuan Lin, filmmaker and artist. Graduated from Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies in Animation, Tainan National University of the Arts. And...

REALITies Incubation – VR Exhibition of Tzu-Ning Wu 孵化現實 // 吳梓寧VR創作個展

30/06/2018

Posted on May 11, 2018October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Artist Tzu-Ning Wu’s work involves 3D animation to demonstrate virtual identities, virtual cities, and virtual natures in the cyber space. Her Cyberbeingsseries, created in 2003, was chosen as one of the Honourable Mentions for the Taipei Arts Awards in 2004. The Cyber Nativeseries, from 2006 to 2009, describes a self-portrait of the artist’s avatar through the dynamic cha...

From The Concept of Social Sculpture to the Public Art in Taiwan: My Artistic Journey 從社會雕塑到台灣公共藝術: 我的藝術歷程

28/10/2017

Posted on October 9, 2017October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

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 he...

The Power of Action – Lectures by Yao Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) Part I //姚瑞中//後民國意象//

Posted on August 14, 2017October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

This lecture is cancelled. The Power of Action - Four Lectures by YAO Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) Internationally acclaimed artist Yao Jui-Chung gives a series of lectures over the themes he has been working on over 30-years of his career. Chaired by Marko Daniel (Tate Modern, London) Lecture 1: Post-Republican Act...

The Power of Action-Lectures by YAO Jui-Chung (姚瑞中) Part II //姚瑞中//後民國意象//

Posted on August 14, 2017October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Today’s Ink Art in Korea and Taiwan //文貞姬//新水墨運動//

29/10/2017

Posted on August 10, 2017October 25, 2019 by Chia-ling Yang

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 ...

Art and Translation in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea 藝術與翻譯: 台灣, 香港和韓國

29/10/2017

Posted on July 12, 2017October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

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.Hs...

Event 2017

29/10/2017

Posted on June 19, 2017October 25, 2019 by Chia-ling Yang

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...

TRANS-DISCIPLINARY ART IN THE MAKING: JUN-JIEH WANG’S ‘FUTURE MEDIA’ //王俊傑//未來媒體//

20150429

Posted on March 1, 2015October 25, 2019 by admin

Jun-Jieh Wang 王俊傑 (Artist) Innovative, ambitious, meticulous, a magnet for sponsors, a genius: Taiwan artist Wang Jun-jieh is recognized as all of these. Playing the twin roles of artist and entrepreneur, Wang brings his exciting new works and visions on ‘future media’ to Edinburgh. (L'Après-midi de la Gravité, 2010) ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jun-Jieh Wa...

Events 2017

Posted on February 25, 2015October 25, 2019 by admin

CURATING BEYOND NATIONAL REPRESENTATION //策展//美感無國界//

20150429

Posted on February 18, 2015October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Dr Felix Schöber (Independent Curator) For the last two decades, Taiwan- or rather the Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan- has represented Taiwanese contemporary art through group shows, which used different artists to fill in positions inside a pattern that changed only very little over the years. Dr Schoeber will present a series of exhibitions that dealt with Taiwanes...

HYBRID REALITY OF ABSTRACT PAINTING: MY ARTIST JOURNEY //薛保瑕//境界.動能//

20150611

Posted on June 1, 2014October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Prof. Pao-Shia Hsueh 薛保瑕 Artist, National Tainan University of Fine Arts “As a messenger I move between source and pathway, until I find my destination.” About the Artist Pao-Shia Hsueh was born in Taichung in 1956 and received her Doctor of Art (D.A.) from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University in 1995. She directed the National Taiwan ...

BEYOND ISLANDS: CONTEMPORARY ART OF TAIWAN AND EAST ASIA //島嶼之外//臺灣當代藝術論壇//

20140612

12/06/2014

Posted on May 26, 2014October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

History of Art at the University of Edinburgh hosts an Spotlight Taiwan Art Forum on contemporary East Asian Art, focusing on artists who received aboriginal Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Western art inspirations and developed their own art into an unique visual presentation with a great diversity in East Asia now. Through the study of contemporary ar...

ALTERNATED AUDIO FILES: FROM REVERBERATIONS AND AFTERIMAGES //陳界仁//殘響世界//

20140611

Posted on May 26, 2014October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Chieh-Jen Chen 陳界仁 (Artist) About the Artist Chieh-Jen Chen 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. In 1980s, the Cold War/Martial Law period in Taiwan, Chen challenged the limits of expression under the Martial Law system and the conservative art establishment with ...