ARTWAVE - Taiwan International Arts Network

The Curators’ Intensive Taipei 19: International Conference and Workshops (CIT19) is a project launched by the National Culture and Arts Foundation (NCAF) under its ARTWAVE — Taiwan International Arts Network Platform initiative, and co-organised by the NCAF and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, curated by TheCube Project Space. Focused on contemporary curating, CIT19 unfolds across two parallel tracks — an international conference and a series of workshops — building an international forum, connecting practitioners across regions and deepening the practice of curatorial education.

The CIT19 workshops invite curators and arts professionals from Taiwan and abroad to co-lead sessions, providing an interactive platform for emerging curators to learn, reflect and practise. The workshops are hosted by the Museum of National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) and co-organised with the MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art (CCSCA) at the National Taipei University of Education.

The international conference is titled Contemporary Curating Rethink: In the Context of Asia and Beyond, with curators and scholars from Taiwan and overseas across three days. Over the two decades in which curatorial studies have taken root in Taiwan, the NCAF and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum have been pivotal in incubating curatorial experiments and curators alike, and the conference builds on that ground to further the shaping of Taiwan’s exhibition history and the body of curatorial knowledge.

Anchored by Taiwan’s cultural fabric, geographical location and historical trajectory, CIT19 explores the history and methodology of curating, and the social roles of the curator, within the broader Asian context. Amid the converging trends of cross-cultural exchange and pedagogical turns in exhibition-making, the project asks how “curating”, simultaneously in research, display and teaching modes, can lay out new contexts as effective as they are creative.

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Conference

Transdisciplinary Curating, the Institution of Art, and the Educational Turn

13:00-14:00
[Keynote] Raqs Media Collective
Trans-trance Force Fields (On the Curatorial Bearing of New Knowledge)

We come face to face with the “curatorial” whenever we witness within ourselves or around us the collision of artistic forms. [ …more ]

14:20-14:50
ruangrupa
Extended Living Room: Space and Conversation

In many of our practice, not only has ruangrupa often worked in different contexts, but we also have invited people from various contexts to Jakarta m [ …more ]

14:50-15:20
Jo Hsiao
Reflections on Contemporary Curation

When we speak of “curating,” we must go back to the final decade of the previous century, when the academic institutions of Europe and North America e [ …more ]

15:50-16:20
Kenjiro Hosaka
The New Role of Architects and Private Collectors for the Institution of Art

Collaboration with architects and private collectors at institutions of art has been more noticeable in recent years.For example, the Manifesta in Pal [ …more ]

15:50-16:20
Hsieh Feng-Rong
“Disorderly Performance”: An Innovative Attempt at Curating

Art museums had mushroomed in China with its economic boom between the late 1990s and early 2000s. [ …more ]

Cross-Regional / Cross-Cultural Curating and Geopolitics

13:00-14:00
[Keynote] David TEH
What is the Curatorial Function?

What defines the curatorial role in Asian contemporary art, and are its parameters different elsewhere? [ …more ]

14:20-14:50
Manray Hsu
Indigeneity and Contemporary Art: Some Curatorial Thoughts

What is the most daunting challenge for a curator to organize an exhibition on Taiwanese indigenous contemporary art, especially when the curator is a [ …more ]

14:50-15:20
Zoe Butt
The Journey of Conscience as Consciousness: Re-tracing Histories

What does it mean to think and present, as a curator, the shared histories between artists and the trauma of cultural memory, to international audienc [ …more ]

15:50-16:20
Lu Pei-Yi
Making South: The “South” as a Method in Taiwan Contemporary Curating

The term “South” is never merely a word referring to geographical location but is more related to geopolitics and cultural orientation. [ …more ]

16:20-16:50
Francis Maravillas
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”: Food and Hospitality in Contemporary Art and Exhibitions in Asia and Beyond

In recent times there has been a growing artistic and curatorial interest in the conjunction of food and art. [ …more ]

Curatorial Practice and the Formation of Art History

13:00-14:00
[Keynote] Pi Li
Works or/and/with Ideas: Curatorialship and Historical Construction in the Museum Context

A majority of existing art museums (incl. modern art museums) tend to base their art historical discourses on the idea of “autonomy of art history” pr [ …more ]

14:20-14:50
Yoann Gourmel
Les fleurs américaines

“Once upon a time, there was a history known as the history of modern art…”The exhibition Les fleurs américaines presented at Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-F [ …more ]

14:50-15:20
Chou Yu-Ling
Thinking through the Visual: Curating as an Alternative Way of Constructing Art Histories

Art histories and (art) museums have been closely interdependent in terms of mechanism and profession. [ …more ]

15:20-15:50
Raimundas Malašauskas
Making Tea in a documenta Mug

In 2007 I’ve sent a following letter to a circle of people I wanted to receive a response from:“I would like to invite you to participate in the specu [ …more ]

16:20-16:50
Eileen Legaspi Ramirez
Making Peace with the Baggage of History: Negotiating Between Curatorial Leverage and Reckoning with Readings of the Past

This paper is underpinned by a suspicion that the curatorial recoil from history is both defensive and tactical to some extent. [ …more ]

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