lecture Archives - Spotlight Tawian

FLYING INTO THE FUTURE: FANTASIES OF MODERNITY IN LATE QING LITERATURE //李歐梵//文化時空//

20150615

Posted on August 5, 2015October 25, 2019 by admin

Prof. Ou-Fan Leo Lee 李歐梵 (Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong) //飛向未來：晚清文學中的現代幻想// The renowned scholar and cultural critic Ou-Fan Leo Lee gives a lecture about "flying" as a time-space transformation in late Qing literature. By exploring works of modern Chinese fiction and translations, Prof Lee aimed to recover the moment in hi...

SEX, FOOD AND POLITICS //李昂//食色性也//

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Posted on June 14, 2015October 25, 2019 by admin

Ang Li 李昂 (Writer) Ang Li is the most controversial woman writer in Taiwan. In this lecture, she examines the intertwining of gender, food and politics, which continues to break new ground of literary reflection, creating a new space of questions involving female sexuality and Asian women’s literature in the international literary scene. ABOUT THE SPEA...

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...

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...

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

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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 ...

MISSING FRACTIONS: THE CHINESE DIPLOMATIC ARCHIVE IN TAIWAN AND ITS CONTEMPORARY MEANING //沈呂巡//失落的歷史//

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Posted on November 26, 2013October 25, 2019 by Li-Heng Hsu

Speaker: Dr. Lyu-shun Shen (Taipei Representative in the US) This talk falls into two parts. In the first part, Dr. Shen -- speaking in his capacity as one of the co-editors of an important book entitled A Century of Resilient Tradition: Exhibition of the Republic of China's Diplomatic Archives -- offers a critical review of the diplomatic archives of the Repub...