Polar Region (極地) is the second part in a series of site-specific installations by Chen Sung-chih (陳松志). Inspired by the experimental spirit of contemporary sculpture, Chen will fill the gallery space with more than three tonnes of sand and glass shards in an attempt to draw our attention to the tiny objects that are present in our daily life.
■ Project Fulfill Art Space (就在藝術中心), 2, Alley 45, Ln 147, Xinyi Rd Sec 3, Taipei City (台北市信義路三段147巷45弄2號). Open Tuesdays
to Sundays from 1pm to 6pm.
Tel: (02) 2707-6942
■ Opening reception on Friday at 4pm. Until Sept. 19
Any Scene You Want (呼喚語) is a solo exhibit of new landscape paintings by Hong Ling (洪凌). Hong’s layering of translucent white over a skin-toned underpainting has caused some critics to suggest that his work is an emblem of the female body. Others claim that the delicate coloring is the refined renderings of an Asian aesthete preoccupied with nature. As the title suggests, it is left to the viewer to decide the meaning of these oil-on-canvas paintings.
■ Soka Art Center (索卡藝術中心), 2F, 57, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段57號2樓). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 9pm. Tel: (02) 2570-0390
■ Opening reception on Saturday at 4pm. Until Oct. 24
Di-stances (D調) explores the likelihood of human survival in
a world plagued by environmental destruction and the specter of nuclear war. The 12 participating artists from France, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, who work in painting, installation, ink, video and sculpture, also engage in a visual dialogue as a means of illustrating how artists from one country influence and are influenced by artists from
other countries.
■ Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
(關渡美術館), Taipei National University of the Arts (台北藝術大學), 1 Xueyuan Rd, Taipei City
(台北市學園路1號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 5pm.
Tel: (02) 2896-1000 X2432
■ Opening reception on Friday at 5pm. Artist talk on Sunday from 2pm to 4pm. Until Sept. 26
adj. Dance (形容詞舞蹈) is a solo exhibit by Yu Cheng-ta (余政達). Yu’s dance videos attempt to transform the abstract vocabulary of movement into a series of physical codes that can be interpreted by the viewer. Accompanied by subtitles that serve as visual cues, the works possess a format similar to instructional dance videos, where participants “can somehow temporarily get rid of the communication anxiety or stress from the inadequacy of language ... to freely express ourselves.” Richard Simmons, eat your
heart out.
■ Chi-Wen Gallery (其玟畫廊), 3F, 19, Ln 252, Dunhua S Rd Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市敦化南路一段252巷19號3樓). Open Tuesdays through Sundays from 11am to 7pm. Tel: (02) 8771-3372
■ Until Sept. 19
Digital Impressions (數位印記), a series of audio and visual installations by Liao Keh-nan (廖克楠), looks back at the evolution of analog and digital technology over the past 30 years and the eclipse of the former by the latter. Liao’s interactive installations are intended to remind people about the digital revolution, particularly its rapid change.
■ Digital Arts Center (台北數位藝術中心), 180 Fuhua Rd, Taipei City
(台北市福華路180號). Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Tel: (02) 7736-0708
■ Until Sept. 12
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and
Indigenous Truku doctor Yuci (Bokeh Kosang), who resents his father for forcing him to learn their traditional way of life, clashes head to head in this film with his younger brother Siring (Umin Boya), who just wants to live off the land like his ancestors did. Hunter Brothers (獵人兄弟) opens with Yuci as the man of the hour as the village celebrates him getting into medical school, but then his father (Nolay Piho) wakes the brothers up in the middle of the night to go hunting. Siring is eager, but Yuci isn’t. Their mother (Ibix Buyang) begs her husband to let
The Taipei Times last week reported that the Control Yuan said it had been “left with no choice” but to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of the central government budget, which left it without a budget. Lost in the outrage over the cuts to defense and to the Constitutional Court were the cuts to the Control Yuan, whose operating budget was slashed by 96 percent. It is unable even to pay its utility bills, and in the press conference it convened on the issue, said that its department directors were paying out of pocket for gasoline
On March 13 President William Lai (賴清德) gave a national security speech noting the 20th year since the passing of China’s Anti-Secession Law (反分裂國家法) in March 2005 that laid the legal groundwork for an invasion of Taiwan. That law, and other subsequent ones, are merely political theater created by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to have something to point to so they can claim “we have to do it, it is the law.” The president’s speech was somber and said: “By its actions, China already satisfies the definition of a ‘foreign hostile force’ as provided in the Anti-Infiltration Act, which unlike
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