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

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

By Spotlight Taiwan, ECA, University of Edinburgh

This international conference examines the global impact of contemporary Taiwanese art. Detail of programme: https://shorturl.at/BEy3T

Date and time

Location

2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh

1 Lauriston Place Edinburgh EH3 9EF United Kingdom

Lineup

Agenda

9:00 AM - 10:45 AM

3 Nov Panel 1: Art, Identity and Tension in a Divided Region

1. Junghee Moon (Tainan National University of the Arts), “The Origin of Othered Subjectivity of Monochrome Painting in Contemporary Asian Art” 2. Shih-ming Pai (National Taiwan Normal University), ...

10:50 AM - 12:40 PM

3 Nov Panel 2: Liminal Space and Indigenous Voice

5. Ching-yeh Hsu (University of Taipei), “Creative Assemblages: Breath, Soul and Wind as Resistance in Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art” 6. Yi-chih Huang (Taipei National University of the Arts)...

1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

3 Nov Keynote Lecture: Jui-Chung Yao

Jui-Chung Yao (Artist, National Taiwan Normal University and National Taipei University of the Arts) “The Political Geography of the Ruins” Chaired by Richard J Williams (University of Edinburgh)

2:30 PM - 4:15 PM

3 Nov Panel 3: Subversive Ink

9. Hui-wen Lu (National Taiwan University), “Walking Their Own Paths: Women Calligraphers in Contemporary Taiwan and Beyond” 10. Kuo-sheng Lai (Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum), “Decent...

4:25 PM - 6:15 PM

3 Nov Panel 4: Immersive Memory and Artistic Agency

13. Sara Simic (Independent Scholar), “Colonial Radio Infrastructures Reimagined: The Possibilities of Former Japanese Navy Fongshan Communication Centre and National Radio Museum as sites of Contemp...

9:00 AM - 10:25 AM

4 Nov Panel 5: Unbound Fabrics in Transnational Dialogue

17. Wessie Ling (London Metropolitan University), “Transnational Threads: Interpreting the East Asian Garment Industry through Huang Po-chih’s Waves” 18. Yayoi Motohashi (Kyoto Institute of Technolog...

10:35 AM - 12:20 PM

4 Nov Panel 6: Performativity beyond the Flesh

20. Izabella Łabędzka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “The Lyrical Body: The Ceremonial Dance Theatre of Lin Lee-chen” 21. Yuwen Hsiung (Purdue University), “Echoes in the Dark: Riverbed Thea...

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

4 Nov Keynote Lecture: Artist Ava Hsueh

Ava Hsueh (Artist, Tainan National University of Arts), “Within the Pulse of Time: Ava Hsueh’s Abstract Painting” Chaired by Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh)

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

4 Nov Panel 7: Art as Resistance in the Post-Truth Era

24. Billy Beswick (University of Oxford), “Queer Inheritance: Un/doing Gender and the Revitalisation of Indigenous Culture in Taiwan and Beyond” 25. Kathy Yim King Mak (Hong Kong Polytechnic Universi...

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4 Nov Discussion and Closing Remarks

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

4 Nov Spotlight Taiwan VR Filmfest Talk: Digital Artist Ya-lun Tao

Ya-lun Tao (National Tsing Hua University) Chaired by Shih-ming Pai and with Discussant Mia Yingxin Liu

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Highlights

  • 1 day, 9 hours
  • In person

About this event

Arts • Fine Art

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Spotlight Taiwan, ECA, University of Edinburgh

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Nov 3 · 9:00 AM GMT