Wen shi jian qing bu wei he wu: Taiwan mei shu shuang nian zhan = Love and death of sentient beings : 2022 Taiwan Art Biennial

Abstract

"Through diverse and rich exhibition formats, the current state of Taiwanese contemporary art is presented. The 2022 Taiwan Art Biennial takes to account the 'sentience' of the digital age: technical questions of what is 'sentience'? For what? And how 'sentience' on one hand [is in] dialogue with the avant-garde thought of the contemporary, and on the other, further re-evaluates various questions around Taiwanese history and subjectivity formation through the worldviews and chrono-concepts expanded upon by artists, weaving an artistic universe of overlapping democracies but rich in local character. [...] This edition of the biennial invites 32 (groups of) artists to participate in the exhibition, initiating discussion from the four curatorial aspects of the Lost Spaces in modern technology, the presence of contemporary Indigeneity, bodily and historical memory in the performative turn, and multiversal animism. Through such diverse exhibition modes as visual art, sound art, dance, live performance, performance art, lectures, and discussions, the audience will be led to understand anew Taiwan's overlapping histories and discourses of subjectivity."-- Director's foreword (page 5).