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2023 Guided Tours
Fri, 12 May
11:30am
Janet Fang, curator of Yuguang Island Art Festival
All that Exists is Interesting – Welcome to the More-Than-Human Realm
Our daily life is brimming with everything, and in art’s larger-than-life worlds, this everything can also be encountered. Taking ready-mades as our starting point, we meet things in the Fair, such as Mono-ha’s ‘school of things’, local specialty things, the laws of things, the Internet of Things and more. Things may really tell us all there is to know.
About Janet Fang
Independent curator. Previously the editor-in-chief of La Vie, realising feature cover stories such as ‘The Theory of Everything’ and ‘Speculative Future Design’, she has curated ‘Craft Land’ for Creative Expo Taiwan 2021, ‘Redrawing the Island of Earth and Sea’ for Tainan’s Yuguang Island Art Festival 2023, and co-curated the design exhibition ‘The Shape of Taiwanese Living’ in 2018.
Fri, 12 May
2:30pm
Natasha Lo, director of Art Happening
The Importance of Being There: Come and See the Exhibition!
Why do we need to look at exhibitions in person? What difference does it make seeing the artwork on-site rather than through its photographic documentation? Possessing the language that is most able to move us, art simply cannot be mediated.
About Art Happening
Art Happening focuses on relationships between people and culture, expanding all possibilities for art to transcend boundaries. We discover the core value of things through storytelling, presenting narratives that carry deep resonance in each exhibition.
Fri, 12 May
3:30pm
Vincent Tsai, founding director and curator of PAPER MATTER
Personal Mythology: An Artistic Path of Material Imaginations
This path through the exhibition aims to reveal the ways that artists process materials. Regarded as the poetics and practice of an artist’s imagination, which curator Harald Szeemann termed as the ‘individual mythology’, this personal process can only be understood by the artist themselves.
About PAPER MATTER
PAPER MATTER is an atelier dedicated to the aesthetics, practice, 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 this medium’s future possibilities and discursive frameworks in a global context.
Fri, 12 May
4:30 pm
Ni Lee, Pon Ding
Roam and Explore with the Art Bookstore
From browsing print publications to roaming through three-dimensional works, embark on an artistic exploration at the Fair. This bookstore shares its favourite artists and their free-spirited art forms in this light-hearted tour.
About Pon Ding
Pon Ding is a bookstore, a cafe and a project space. Its name Pon Ding comes from the English word “ponding”, after its owners first visited its premises during monsoon season and found the terrace transformed into a large puddle. This became a perfect metaphor for a space designed as a collaborative platform, pooling together ideas for exchange and making things happen as well as constantly shapeshifting through its encounters with different people and projects. Its physical form is a three-floor building situated in a small alley in Zhongshan, a historic district in Taipei.
Sat, 13 May
11:30am
Hsinyi Hu, producer of Green Island Human Rights Art Festival
Art as a Mirror of Our Times
Artists are observers of society, exploring current issues through diverse mediums and skills and merging art with our lives. Embodying contemporary society, art reflects our times.
About Green Island Human Rights Art Festival 2023
The Green Island Human Rights Art Festival 2023, with the theme ‘Listening to the Overtones of Fissures’, considers the ways that contemporary art is able to mirror complex histories. Through art’s observation, recognition, reinterpretation and transformation, the Human Rights Art Festival’s scope extends beyond acts of retelling to examine the audience’s gaze and the importance of human rights issues.
Sat, 13 May
2:00pm
Yian Chu, managing editor of Artco Monthly & Investment
What Does Art Do? An Art Editor’s Exhibition Tour
From the perspective of a professional art magazine editor, this tour guides visitors to understand art’s interpretation and presentation, as well as exploring the essence and value of contemporary art.
About Artco Monthly & Investment
For over thirty years, Artco Monthly & Investment has focused on the latest contemporary art developments and trends in Asia and the world. Through its in-depth coverage and unique perspectives, it aims to provide art industry professionals with experience and knowledge, while serving as a bridge for potential art lovers into the art world.
Sat, 13 May
3:00pm
Hsieh Yi Tse, Pon Ding
An Art Bookstore Clerk’s Perspective on the Fair
The longer you work in a bookstore, the more diverse your taste in art becomes. What kinds of artworks halt people in their tracks and also pique their curiosity?
Take a look from behind the scenes at the art that fascinates others.
About Pon Ding
Pon Ding is a bookstore, a cafe and a project space.
Its name Pon Ding comes from the English word “ponding”, after its owners first visited its premises during monsoon season and found the terrace transformed into a large puddle. This became a perfect metaphor for a space designed as a collaborative platform, pooling together ideas for exchange and making things happen as well as constantly shapeshifting through its encounters with different people and projects. Its physical form is a three-floor building situated in a small alley in Zhongshan, a historic district in Taipei.
Sun, 14 May
2:00pm
Ruru Shih, marketing director of Giloo
Film project : ‘We’
As modern technology develops, the relationship between ‘us’ and ‘society’ becomes increasingly complex. This tour investigates this relationship from a variety of perspectives, and visitors are invited to discuss the possibilities of ‘we/us’ based on artworks in the Fair.
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.
Sun, 14 May
3:00pm
Monique Wang, CEO of The Shiner Education Foundation
See Art With Your Inner Child’s Eyes
As an adult accustomizes to their daily routine, the left side of their brain will become more efficient than the right, causing the innocent, intuitive and inspired aspects of the self to gradually diminish. Looking at art from a variety of perspectives, this tour will open the eyes of your inner child to absorb art’s nourishing power.
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 organisations. 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.
Sun, 14 May
4:00pm
Bao-Chi Chen, Taipei Dangdai
Art as Attentiveness to Daily Life
Bring with you the things on your mind, those things you care about but may not often talk about. If you’re the type to get a bit dreamy when you sense in another the glimpse of a kindred spirit, or one of those little passionate souls who get inspired when hearing about the subtle yet penetrating things that others are doing, join us in this attempt to be guided by our hearts and senses around the Fair.