The Velvet Underground presents SteelCowboys (鐵牛仔), GiZi (桔子), MiYan (謎樣), Lucky Pie and Mango (芒果) on Sunday.
* The show begins at NT$300
* Entrance is 2pm
* B1, 50 Zongxiao E Rd Sec 1, Taipei (台北市忠孝西路一段 50 號 B1).Call (02) 2314-1868 or visit www.velvet-underground.com.tw
(Please note: Some of the listed bands do not have English names in which case the Taipei Times has included a translation or transliteration.)
Exhibitions
The God Must be Crazy? The Adventures of Max Liu (上帝也瘋狂—劉其偉的冒險), a series of paintings by the bold and vivacious artist reveling in the colorful world of nature. A fugitive from the civilized way of life, the 74-year-old artist has found the pure joy and richness in life living with Aboriginal tribes and brings back with him simple yet imaginative reflections on primordial beauty.
* Metaphysics Gallery (形而上畫廊), 5F, 218-1, Zhongxiao E Rd, Sec 4, Taipei (台北市忠孝東路四段218-2號5樓). Open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 6:30pm. Call (02) 2752-9974.
* Until Aug. 20
Singing in Your Brain — Video and Interactive Installation Solo Exhibition by Tsao Hsun-chih (在腦海中歌唱–曹訓誌錄像與互動裝置個展). By altering the ways to perceive the visual and the audio, the artist asks the viewer to reflect on the acts of experiencing and sensing. The relation between the subject and the object is from a phenomenological point of view to raise the big question: what is being?
* Shin Leh Yuan Art Space (新樂園藝術空間), 15-2, Ln 11, Zhongshan N Rd, Sec 2, Taipei (中山北路二段11巷15-2號). Open Wednesday to Sunday from 1pm to 8pm. Call (02) 2561-1548.
* Until Aug. 27
Project Nano: the Body Trilogy Part I — the Materialized Sense (器質性官能). Following Project Nano 2003, artist Liu Yian-sheng (劉寅生) continues to study the inter-disciplinary vocabulary with his “nano” spirit, that is, a microcosmic way of perceiving. Vocabularies of different fields are molded into a unique narrative structure.
* Hua Shan Cultural and Creative Industry Center (華山創意文化園區), 1 Bade Rd Sec 1, Taipei (台北市八德路一段1號). Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm. Call (02) 2392-6180.
* Until Sunday
A Place for Women in Taipei (台北女子所在), a joint exhibition on stories of .women and men Lexa Walsh from the US invites locales to participate in her “The Immortalization Project” to share stories behind their beloved belongings. Thai artist Teerawate Mulvilai makes intimate portray of Thai women in Taipei through their diaries while local artist Hsu Chia-jung's (許嘉容)video installation piece leaves a stirring traces of memories and family life.
* Taipei Culture Center (台北市立社會教育館), 25 Bade Rd Sec 3, Taipei (台北市八德路三段25號). Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 5pm. Call (02) 2577-5931.
* Until Aug. 31
The Metamorphosis of Art Among the Rukai of Wutai Village (當代時空裡的原生藝術–霧台魯凱族藝術蛻變), starting from works by three generations of artists from a Rukai family in Wutai, the exhibition presents the dynamism and originality of the Aboriginal tribe. Art works related to Wutai by non-aboriginal artists are also included to reflect multiple viewpoints.
* Hong Gan Museum (鳳甲美術館), 5F, 260 Daye Rd, Taipei (台北市大業路260號5樓). Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:30am to 5:30pm. Call (02) 2894-2272.
* Until Aug. 27
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