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The 6th Taipei Biennial, organised by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, is
curated by Manray Hsu (Germany/Taiwan) and Vasif Kortun (Turkey). It will
take place between 13 September 2008 and 4 January 2009.
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is the main venue established for the Taipei
Biennials. This year, the event also includes projects in the Beer
Brewery, on the mega-digital screen at the Taipei Arena, in Taipei Art Park,
at the Zhongxiao Xinsheng MRT Station, and an intervention at No.13, Qidong
Street. The Biennial will employ a number of advertising boards in the city
as well, spreading the exhibition throughout different neighbourhoods and
bringing the project into view when least expected.
In addition, upon the invitation of the curators, the artist/activist Oliver
Ressler presents an exhibition within the context of the Biennial titled "A
World Where Many Worlds Fit", that is dedicated to resistance movements.
The Taipei Biennial originates from a constellation of correlated themes
all connected to neo-liberal capitalist globalisation. The threads of investigation
in the exhibition include urban transformation in Taiwan, circumstances for
immigrant and illegal labour, mobility, borders, divided states and micro-nations,
permanent war condition, ecological breakdown, global unrest, and the opportunities
for change. All these threads are processed and witnessed through do-it-yourself
practices, individual stories, and humour. While art does not provide answers,
it has the capacity to reflect on these issues from multiple angles, to work
with different forms of enquiry and determine when to focus on individual
moments. As with the approach of the Biennial, no story is infinitely singular.
Each area of focus is associated with many other questions, for example,
the mobility of a tourist, a temporary worker, or a foreign bride are certainly
not the same, not even similar. Towards this end, the Biennial has been commissioning
as many new works as possible, or asking the participating artists to rethink
and adapt previous projects in light of their presentation in Taipei. There
will also be existing works presented in juxtaposition to the new ones. The
exhibition will include thematic compilations and farcical and biting videos.
There will be performative works and interventions in the city, some of
which will be documented and reconfigured in the exhibition venues. The Beer
Brewery, a site that has been through an extended process of transformation
from its inauguration as Taiwan's first beer factory (a production and distribution
site built during the Japanese occupation), to a state monopoly that involved
the privatisation, re-branding and finally relocation to a site outside of
the city centre. While the factory's history can be read as a classic example
of shifting states of use in any post-industrialised city in the world, the
exhibition is interested in seeking the nuances and specificities found within
the general. The brewery's daily operation will continue during the exhibition
run, and its space will be utilised as a real place rather than an insular
exhibition zone.
Parallel programming includes a conference co-presented with the Dictionary
of War that takes place on October 24 and 25, 2008; a film programme related
to the themes of the exhibition co-hosted by the Urban Nomad Film Festival;
and in collaboration with Taipei Drift, an International Workshop for Art
Academics, 2008.
By means of these projects the curators and artists will explore the diverse
opportunities that this Biennial is capable of creating and responding to.
(Press information provided by the organizers)
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Contact:
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
181 Zhongshan North Road
Section 3, Zhongshan District
Taipei 10461
Taiwan
Phone: + 886 2 2595 7656
Fax: + 886 2 2585 1886
Email: info@taipeibiennial.org
Website: www.taipeibiennial.org/
Press Contact:
Juillet Lu
Phone: + 886 2 2595 7656 ext.111
Email: juillet@tfam.gov.tw
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13 September 2008 -
4 January 2009
Press preview:
11 and 12 Sept. 2008
Opening
ceremony & party:
11 September 2008
Curators:
Manray Hsu
Vasif Kortun
Special section curated by Oliver Ressler
List of artists
47 participants
Venues:
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Art Park, Taipei Brewery, Zhongxiao Xinsheng MRT Station, PDP in MRT, Taipei Arena / Taipei Screen
Dates and facts
Print: all information
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