American artist Ray King uses light and glass to great effect in Adventures of Light and Color (以光之名). The three glass-and-metal sculptural installations on display at Taipei Artist Village combine visual elements drawn from Chinese history and philosophy and recreate them using contemporary materials.
■ Barry Room, Taipei Artist Village
(台北國際藝術村百里廳), 7 Beiping E Rd, Taipei City (台北市北平東路7號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 3393-7377
■ Opening on Friday from 7pm to 9:30pm. Until July 18
Back to Love (回到愛的星球), a group exhibition of photography, video and installation, examines the lives of people living in African countries. The show puts a positive spin on the lives of these people, offering a compassionate perspective on an underdeveloped continent.
■ Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 2552-3720. Admission: NT$50
■ Begins on Friday. Until July 25
A new series of wooden sculptures by Hsiao Yi (蕭一) is currently on display at Lin & Lin Gallery. Hsiao’s kitschy representational sculptures of figures praying or riding motorcycles bear an uncanny resemblance to the works of Ju Ming (朱銘) — though without the latter’s depth of vision.
■ Lin & Lin Gallery (大未來林舍畫廊), 13, Ln 252, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段252巷13號). Open Tuesdays to Fridays from 10am to 7pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 2721-8488
■ Until July 4
Nature God is a solo exhibition by Chintan Upadhyay, an Indian artist who recently gained attention in Europe for burning cars as an act of defiance against that continent’s legal bureaucracy (apparently it’s okay to burn cars in India) while drawing attention to the world’s reliance on oil. Upadhyay’s Sakshi Gallery show is slightly tamer, featuring collage paintings of naked children that fuse pictorial elements from antiquity with religious iconography.
■ Sakshi Gallery (夏可喜當代藝術), 33 Yitong Street, Taipei City (台北市伊通街33號). Open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1:30pm to 9:30pm, Sundays from 1:30pm to 7:30pm. Tel: (02) 2516-5386
■ Until July 11
Hierophany Consciousness (顯聖．意識) is a group exhibition of video and photo installation by six of Taiwan’s top artists. The show explores the country’s history, politics, culture and art. The artists are Huang Ming-che (黃銘哲), J.C. Kuo (郭振昌), Wu Tien-chang (吳天章), Kuo Shu-li (郭淑莉), Pai Tsung-chin (白宗晉) and Lai Hsin-lung (賴新龍).
■ La Chambre Art Gallery (小室藝廊), 31, Ln 52, Siwei Rd, Taipei City (台北市四維路52巷31號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from noon to 9pm. Tel: (02) 2700-3689
■ Until July 11
A Decade of Reverie, Tales of Contemplation (織夢十年 靜思物語) is a solo exhibit of 12 oil paintings and eight pastels by Chinese artist Li Lan (朱禮銀). Li Lan’s nostalgic and exotic compositions of insects, women, clothing and architecture are fragments drawn from her daily life and imagination, rendered in rich colors that bring to life multiple worlds.
■ Tina Keng Gallery (大未來耿畫廊),
15, Ln 548, Ruiguang Rd, Taipei City
(台北市瑞光路548巷15號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 2659-0798
■ Until June 26
When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do. “We survive by eating other living things. But you can give faeces back to nature so that organisms in the soil can decompose them,” the 74-year-old said. “This means you are giving life back. What could be a more sublime act?” “Fundo-shi” (“poop-soil master”) Izawa is something of a celebrity in Japan, publishing books, delivering lectures and appearing in a documentary. People flock to his “Poopland” and centuries-old wooden “Fundo-an” (“poop-soil house”) in
Jan 13 to Jan 19 Yang Jen-huang (楊仁煌) recalls being slapped by his father when he asked about their Sakizaya heritage, telling him to never mention it otherwise they’ll be killed. “Only then did I start learning about the Karewan Incident,” he tells Mayaw Kilang in “The social culture and ethnic identification of the Sakizaya” (撒奇萊雅族的社會文化與民族認定). “Many of our elders are reluctant to call themselves Sakizaya, and are accustomed to living in Amis (Pangcah) society. Therefore, it’s up to the younger generation to push for official recognition, because there’s still a taboo with the older people.” Although the Sakizaya became Taiwan’s 13th
For anyone on board the train looking out the window, it must have been a strange sight. The same foreigner stood outside waving at them four different times within ten minutes, three times on the left and once on the right, his face getting redder and sweatier each time. At this unique location, it’s actually possible to beat the train up the mountain on foot, though only with extreme effort. For the average hiker, the Dulishan Trail is still a great place to get some exercise and see the train — at least once — as it makes its way
Earlier this month, a Hong Kong ship, Shunxin-39, was identified as the ship that had cut telecom cables on the seabed north of Keelung. The ship, owned out of Hong Kong and variously described as registered in Cameroon (as Shunxin-39) and Tanzania (as Xinshun-39), was originally People’s Republic of China (PRC)-flagged, but changed registries in 2024, according to Maritime Executive magazine. The Financial Times published tracking data for the ship showing it crossing a number of undersea cables off northern Taiwan over the course of several days. The intent was clear. Shunxin-39, which according to the Taiwan Coast Guard was crewed
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