Minuit, French for midnight, is the title of Taipei-based French journalist Hubert Kilian’s (余白) exhibition on what his neighborhood looks like at dusk. Starting in 2010, Kilian took long walks every week on the streets of Taipei and New Taipei City, photographing employees on overtime and other citizens of a sometimes thrilling, sometimes melancholy nocturnal world.
■ Floor 8 — Contemporary Art Space (八樓當代藝術空間), 8F, 21, Ln 19, Shuangcheng St, Taipei City (台北市雙城街19巷21號8樓), tel: (02) 2597-5919, open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 7pm, closed on Mondays
■ Until Dec. 25
Photo Courtesy of TKG+ Projects
Humanism is a philosophy that calls man rational and unified. Post-humanism declares man the opposite: irrational and capable of forging self-identity out of conflicting realities. In Post-humanist Desire (後人類慾望), 25 artists including Victoria Vesna, Patricia Piccinini and Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork interpret what people would want out of life in the post-human era and what next-generation gender identities might be. Curated by Ming Turner, the exhibition features sculptures, prints, wire art and other media, as well as DIY workshops and symposiums tomorrow and Sunday. To register, visit www.mocataipei.org.tw.
■ MOCA Studio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA, Taipei), 39 Changan W Rd, Taipei City (台北市長安西路39號), tel: (02) 2552-3720. Open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10am to 6pm. Admission: NT$50
■ Opens Saturday. Until Jan. 12
Photo Courtesy of MOCA, Taipei
2013 Taiwan Photo (台灣攝影藝術博覽) is a large-scale show of photo-based artwork, as well as museum-quality contemporary, modern and 19th-century original prints. On show are 60 artists such as Jock Sturges and Hirokawa Taishi, brought together by the 1839 Contemporary Gallery.
■ Culture Hall (文化會館) at 6F of Shinkong Mitsukoshi (新光三越), 11 Songshou Rd, Taipei City ( 台北市松壽路11號), tel: (02) 2778-8458, today to Sunday from 11am to 9pm, Monday from 11am to 6pm, regular admission: NT$180
■ Opens today. Until Monday
(flare-s) is Chen Ching-yuan’s (陳敬元) solo exhibition about Taiwan’s politics and self-identity. In one of Chen’s elaborate animations, tiny people wave flickering emergency lights from boats that bob on a dark sea, in what is both “a celebration as well as a rescue call for help,” according to the gallery notes. Chen also brings a new series of oil paintings titled Flare, which infuses gloomy subjects — like a waiter bussing soiled dishes, or a leashed golden bull — with a pale and treacly light.
■ TKG+ Projects, 4F, 15, Ln 548, Ruiguang Road, Taipei City (台北市瑞光路548巷15號4樓), tel: (02) 2659-0798, open Tuesdays to Sundays from 11am to 7pm, closed on Mondays
■ Until Dec. 29
Suspending on the Surface of Speed (懸置在速度的表面) is a solo exhibition based on characters from the 75-year-old British children’s comic, Beano. Completed by Agi Chen (陳怡潔) during her artist-in-residency in the UK, the solo show has as its centerpiece a set of painted discs, creating on a spinning board, that track the evolution of the comic ‘s color palette over the years.
■ IT Park Gallery (伊通公園), 2F-3F, 41 Yitong St, Taipei City (台北市伊通街41號2-3樓). Open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1pm to 10pm. Tel: (02) 2507-7243
■ Until Dec. 14
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
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
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
Each week, whenever she has time off from her marketing job, Ida Jia can be found at Shanghai Disneyland queuing for hours to spend a few minutes with Linabell, a fluffy pink fox with big blue eyes. The 29-year-old does not go empty handed, bringing pink fox soft toys dressed in ornate custom-made outfits to show the life-sized character, as well as handmade presents as gifts. Linabell, which made its debut in Shanghai in 2021, is helping Disney benefit from a rapidly growing market in China for merchandise related to toys, games, comics and anime, which remained popular with teenagers and young
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