Moderator: Hsu Fang-Tze, Nobuo Takamori

Hsu Fang-Tze is a curator in the National University of Singapore Museum. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the National University of Singapore. Her dissertation research, Cold War Acousmêtre: Artist Films and the First Island Chain, was supported by the President’s Graduate Fellowship and the FASS Promising Graduate Scholar Award. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the digital manager for the Asia Art Archive. She was appointed as a curator for the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2013. In 2019, she presents Gendered Bodies in Southeast Asia in collaboration with Tessa Maria Guazon at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. In 2016, she co-curated Negative Horizon:5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, 2016, with Lu Pei-Yi, and presented the curated research project, Working-Through: Vandy Rattana and His Ditched Footages, at TheCube Project Space, Taipei. Her other cross-disciplinary research projects include Singaporean artist Loo Zihan’s Artists' General Assembly: The Langenbach Archive (2013), FIELDS: An Itinerant Inquiry Across the Kingdom of Cambodia (2013) co-organized by the SA SA BASSAC (Cambodia) and the ST PAUL St Gallery (Aotearoa, New Zealand), and On Site: A Centennial Retrospective of Robert Capa at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Her research interests include contemporary knowledge formation, Cold War aesthetics, memory, philosophies of technology, and the embodiment of artistic praxis in everyday life. Her writings can be found in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Art Critique of Taiwan (ACT), and LEAP (China).

Curator; Researcher of Taiwan International Arts Network, National Culture & Arts Foundation; Director of “Outsiders Factory”, a curators collective; selected important exhibition curatorial works include Post-Actitud (Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico DF, 2011), South country, South of Country (Zero Station, Ho Chi Minh City & Howl Space, Tainan, 2012), The Lost Garden (Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2014), Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2014 The Return of Ghosts (Hong Gah Museum, Taipei), I Don’t Belong (Galleria H., Taipei, 2015), Wild Legend (Jumin Museum, Jinshan, 2015) , Blue Bird in the Labyrinth: A Walk from Japanese Modern Art to Asia Contemporary Art Scene (Galerie Nichido Taipei, 2016), Tabaco, Carpet, Lunch Box, Textile Machinery and Cave Men: the narratives of craftsmanship and technologies in contemporary art (Hong Gah Museum, Taipei, 2017), Is/In-Land: Mongolian Taiwanese Contemporary Art Exchange Project (976 Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2018), The Middleman, the Backpacker, the Alien Species and the Time Traveler (TKG+, Taipei, 2019).