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

Info: 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), “War Memories: Post-Martial Law Art and the Political Poetics in Taiwan”
3. Roberto Figliulo (Autonomous University of Barcelona), “Dai Bih-in: A Taiwanese Artist in Catalonia”
4. Jing-jung Huang (Tainan Art Museum), “The Avant-Garde and Contemporary Dimensions of Tseng Pei-yao in Taiwan: Art as a Response to the Self, Land, and Era”

Info: 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), “Lyric Urban Guerrilla: Embodied Practices in Reimagining the Everyday City and Memories”
7. Wei Hsiu Tung (National University of Tainan), “Socially-Engaged Art for Rural Revitalization: Artivism, Placemaking and Sustainability”
8. Pedith Pui Chan (Independent Scholar), “Contested Identities in Liminal Spaces: Visual Negotiations and Representations of Hong Kong in Chow Chun Fai’s Artistic Practice”

Info: 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)

Info: 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), “Decentralisation: The Emergence of Multifaceted Ink Art in Twenty-First Century Taiwan”
11. Henning von Mirbach (University of Cambridge), “Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Taiwan: The Ink Art of Yuan Hui-Li and Koon Wai Bong”
12. Aida Yuen Wong (Brandeis University), “Ancient Materials, Digital Methods: Lee Chun-yi's Revolutionary Approach to Ink Art”

Info: 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 Contemporary (Sound) Art Research Practices”
14. Kai-ching Hsiao (Tainan Art Museum), “Memory in Soundscapes: The Interweaving of Visual and Auditory Experiences”
15. Chia-ling Yang (University of Edinburgh), “Plant Time, Handcrafted Memoir, and Algorithmic Art”
16. Mia Yingxin Liu (Johns Hopkins University), “The Architectonic Circle of Digital Being: The Art of Huang Hsin-Chien”

Info: 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 Technology), “Reinterpreting Indigenous Aesthetics: Issey Miyake’s Influence on East Asian Fashion Practices”
19. Zhaohua Ho (Fu Jen Catholic University), “Fashion and Cultural Heritage: Tensions between Preservation and Innovation”

Info: 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 Theatre’s The Forgotten and the Lyrical Body of Memory”
22. Kyunghee Pyun (State University of New York), “Lee Mingwei’s Critique of Heritage and Memory: Subverting Essentialism of Styles”
23. Yu-chieh Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Between Digital Human and Non-Human: The Aesthetics of the Body in Contemporary Media Art from Taiwan”

Info: 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)

Info: 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 University), “Cosmic Pebbles: Cosmology and Metaphorical Reclusion in Hong Kong Contemporary Art (2019–2023)”
26. Pei-yi Lu (National Taipei University of Education), “Care is a Form of Resistance: The Practice of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Taiwan”
27. Doris Sung (University of Alabama), “Two Coasts, Three Territories: Connecting Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland in the Participatory Installations of Linda Lai and Jaffa Lam”

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

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom