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2023 Taipei Platform
Fri, 12 May
11:30-12:30pm
Living Color – Sakon Nakhon Indigo Workshop with Philip Huang
Philip Huang
Discover the ancient craft of indigo dyeing through Philip Huang’s journey to Sakon Nakhon in a visual essay, Finding Oasis, afterwards learn how to make a fermented indigo vat with only natural ingredients. Finally, Philip will guide you through a painting session with natural indigo ink on Taiwanese artisanal paper handcrafted by Fenko.
About Philip Huang
Founded in Brooklyn by Philip Huang and Chomwan Weeraworawit in 2016, and based between Bangkok and New York, Philip Huang creates clothing and accessories in collaboration with artisans in the Northeast of Thailand. Using plant-based regenerative natural dyes, organic fibers, and handwoven textiles, artisanal knowledge is merged with contemporary design to create clothing and accessories for today and the future.
Fri, 12 May
1:00-2:00pm
lám-nuā
A Field Guide for Weathering: Embodied Tactics for Collectives of Two or More Humans
The Weathering Collective (Jennifer Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis) has published ‘A Field Guide for Weathering: Embodied Tactics for Collectives of Two or More Humans,’ a fun approach towards observing and caring for our bodies’ different needs. Through play, revising and researching new possibilities together, they set to awaken ‘explosive new constellations of want’. Attuning our five senses to more lively, diverse and personal approaches towards climate change, and supporting the co-existence of Others, this workshop acts as a microcosmic weather observation station at Taipei Dangdai.
About Lám-Nuā
Hosted by curator Shih-Yu Hsu and translator Renyu Wu. Facilitating irregular gatherings walking around or lying down. Lám-Nuā is techniques of hibernation. Lám-Nuā is a mixture of earth and water. Lám-Nuā is togetherness.
Fri, 12 May
2:30-3:30pm
ART PRESS / Atelier.Senseware
An Interesting Medium: St. Leo Paint + Plaster Workshop
The ART PRESS editorial team and Atelier.Senseware, a brand dedicated to exploring the beauty and deconstruction of architecture, together present a new project called ‘An Interesting Medium’. The workshop invites participants to think about the role that art collection and the aesthetics of architectural space may play in daily life through visual and tactile perception, aiming to explore the philosophies and spiritual essence behind art collection with the audience.
Please bring recycled items that you would like to transform through repainting, for example, a flower vase or other objects with a modifiable surface. For those participants without such objects, wooden items will be provided to paint.
About Atelier.Senseware and St. Leo Interiors
Atelier.Senseware is the official distributor of St. Leo. Interiors for Taiwan. St Leo. was founded by the owners of Danish furniture brands MENU, &Tradition, Kinfolk Magazine and Norm Architects. Their first project was the complete architectural design of The Audo, MENU’s new HQ in Copenhagen.
12 May
4:00-5:00pm
The Shiner Education Foundation
See Art Through Your Inner Child’s Eyes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up. – Pablo Picasso.
Heartbeat – Breath – Touch – Connection – Resonance. As the medium connects with the body to become art in all forms, in this experiential workshop, we will follow our intuition to carry out small experiments under the concept of body sculpture. Here, our grown-up selves may encounter our indefinable selves once again.
“Let’s open our minds and boundaries for a moment and awaken the artist inside of us!”
About the Shiner Education Foundation
The Shiner Education Foundation has been long committed to providing educational services that ‘connect the essences in life’ through art and nature, annually enriching more than a thousand children’s lives in Taiwan’s remote areas and social welfare organizations. Through a diversity of inspiring programs, each child is guided in self-exploration and their connection with the world to become their own unique selves.
13 May
1:00-2:00pm
nos:books
Read Art with Chihoi
Viewfinder Book Launch
Do you get fatigued from absorbing so much art at the Fair that you miss out on some good artworks?
The launch of Chihoi’s new book Viewfinder will take place at Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas, and performs a tour guide service for the audience to experience reading and discerning art with new eyes, distinguishing their own point of view out of all the possible perspectives.
About Chihoi and nos:books:
Chihoi (b.1977, old Hong Kong) began publishing comics in the late 1990s in local press as well as international anthologies. His works deal with topics ranging from the complexity of human relations to the demise of culture. His comics have been translated into English, French, Italian and Finnish. In recent years, his practice has taken a turn to oil painting. He is also part of the editorial team of nos:books in Taipei.
nos:books is an independent publisher founded by artist Son Ni in 2008 in Taipei. We strive to realize artists’ ideas and concepts in unique book formats. Our books are limited-edition works by artists from Taiwan and abroad. We participate in international art book fairs and since 2021, we run a book space under the name nos:bookspace.
13 May
2:30-3:30pm
akaSwap + VolumeDAO
A Workshop on AI Art and Style Transfer / Artist: Aluan Wang
This activity will be hosted by the Generative AI system developed by artist Aluan Wang with akaSwap, guiding the audience to understand the creations of AI as well as being able to acquire instantly generated AI artworks.
Aluan Wang’s recent AI-generated artwork Chaos & AI Research is currently showing in the exhibition “Generative Taipei On-Site: The Archipelago Hashed 2023” at Honggah Museum from 22 April to 21 May, organized by Volume DAO.
About Volume DAO
Volume DAO is a crypto art collective of artists, collectors, curators and critics. In addition to contributing to the shaping of art history through collecting, we curate exhibitions as well as focusing on the interests of the public and other social issues, attempting to create a benevolent public sphere for the metaverse. We anticipate collecting art with our audience and together speaking out to the world.
About akaSwap
akaSwap is Asia’s largest open marketplace for Tezos NFT, showcasing a wide range of artworks and projects created by Asian artists. In addition to hosting raffles, artist clubs, copyright sharing and swaps, it also offers a wide range of unique and original features as well as customized smart contract solutions.
About Aluan Wang
A new media artist and the first Taiwanese artist to be deployed on the NFT art empire Art Blocks. In 2012 and 2015, he won first prize at the Taipei Digital Art Festival. He is currently a full-time artist and frequently leads practical workshops in major art galleries and museums.
13 May
4:00-5:00pm
Giloo Fest 2023 Workshop: Explore the Film Community Ecosystem
Welcome to the Giloo Fest 2023 workshop!
Giloo believes in the power of documentary and non-fiction storytelling, but such content lacks support in the current film ecosystem. To turn this situation around, Giloo leads this workshop to discuss how to gain ground for such filmic work, from the aspects of production, the audience, circulation and promotion. Giloo will also introduce its new experiment for 2023, Giloo Fest, exploring the infinite possibilities of the film community ecosystem.
About Giloo
At Giloo, we take pride in being the leading online film festival and issue-oriented streaming platform in the industry. Our platform is designed to showcase a curated selection of global award-winning films, documentaries, classic films and art films that are sure to captivate and inspire our audience.
14 May
11:30-12:30pm
ss space space
producing space: display, arrangement, art fair
Addressing the sculptures presented at the Fair, this workshop will lead participants through a series of discussions and creative activities. Using a variety of narrative methods including social media circulation, language, painting and sculpture, we will attempt to construct (or deconstruct) the meaning of the artworks. In the process of circulating, communicating and creating our interpretations, the limitations of narration will be explored. This workshop is limited to eight participants.
About ss space space
ss space space is an artist-led experimental space with specific research on notions of space. Collectively and critically, we explore diverse aspects of art by proposing questions and experiments and inviting multiple triggers for reflection.
Since 2020, the organisers of ss space space have formed their practice through a series of collective learning and socially engaged curations, including online projects and physical exhibitions. They have invited creatives from various backgrounds to participate and communicate, exploring concepts of space in a broad and insightful context. Challenging the understanding of existing techniques, technology, culture and society in a fluid and dynamic way, ss space space endeavors to build bridges with institutions, art creatives and the public to create critical discourses and encourage reflection.
Sean Tseng and Sara Wu are the co-founders of ss space space.
14 May
1:00-2:00pm
PAPER MATTER
Pages / Interface: A Practical Memorandum of Bookmaking by Artists
This workshop regards the methodology of the artist’s book. Through collective readings of a selection of books, we will analyze how contemporary artists’ books complement the creative process as well as being nodes to expand artistic concepts. Taking two aspects, the page (the book’s materiality) and the interface (the sociology of texts), we consider how ‘the Editorial’ should be a creative practice that links the artist’s concepts to the ‘text-object-reader’ relationship, throughout the publication stages of production, circulation and reception.
About PAPER MATTER
PAPER MATTER is an atelier dedicated to the aesthetics, practice and knowledge of artists’ books and contemporary photobooks as well as the development of their ecosystems. Through the Artists’ Books Archive, they aim to rediscover bookmaking and publishing through the dynamic role it plays in artistic practice today, exploring the medium’s future possibilities and discursive frameworks in a global context.
14 May
2:30-3:30pm
AUSPIC PAPER
Performing Art Workshop: Venus Wove feat. Chen Jun Yu
Artist Chen Jun Yu deftly employs the body and its actions as a medium to transmit ideas. Using ‘Venus Wove’ ivory paper, a type of white paper popular for cultural publications, he creates the performance artwork “_USED TO”, in which he draws and cuts up his own changing body posture, framing slices of time. This hands-on workshop assists the audience in creating a performance at the Fair, where they will leave behind slices of themselves and interact with a rarely accessible raw paper material, bringing them up close to ‘Venus Wove’ and its charm.
Founded in 1977, we have assumed the role of ‘the authority in paper’ for Taiwan’s graphic, publishing and printing industries. From all parts of the world to Taiwan’s domestic production, and from the refined and unique to the plain and simple, we reconsider how this medium can serve as a window to the imagination in countless cultural, artistic and design productions, not only to convey knowledge and aesthetics, but also to re-present the implicit value and historical significance of paper.
14 May
4:00-5:00pm
Kacalisian Art Village
Art By Lima workshop
In the Austronesian language family, lima means both the number ‘five’ and ‘hand’, and in the Paiwan language, pulima literally translates to ‘a person with many hands’: a person who is skillful at using their hands to accomplish many things, such as a ‘handyman’. The ancestors of the islands of Taiwan once collected the bark of the paper mulberry tree or the banyan tree from the forest and, through the age-old method of hammering to soften the bark, stretched it into non-woven fabric to be sewn into clothes, hats, skirts and trousers for everyday use, even replacing the use of animal skins in hunting attire. This workshop invites the public to learn about barkcloth, beating out their own piece of barkcloth with their lima.
The lima of the Austronesian people narrates their stories and journeys, and the handmade visual art of lima is a bridge connecting this heritage with others.About Kacalisian Art Village
Kacalisian Art Village is committed to highlighting Indigenous art and literature, art curating, lensbased media and publication editing, local creativity and other endeavours. We work towards the preservation and promotion of Indigenous art, literature and traditional culture, and combine relevant artistic and cultural elements with present-day materials to develop unique and contemporary artistic practices, anticipating Indigenous art’s integration in daily life and on the international stage. @kacalisian_art
