Praxis School
Activism throughout Asia derives its different forms and meanings from different cultural and historical contexts. It is a subject that scholar, artist and social activist Huang Sun-quan (黃孫權) will explore through a series of three-hour lectures titled Multitude: till We Have Faces — the Images of Social Movements in Asia (諸眾之貌──亞洲社會運動群像). The lectures are in Chinese.
Tomorrow, Huang will discuss Hong Kong In-Media (香港獨立媒體), an independent media outlet that has taken an active role in social and political campaigns since its inception in 2004.
Photos courtesy of TheCube Project Space
Other topics will include Japanese tent theater as a form of cultural resistance, revolutionary artists in Indonesia and the People’s Science Movement in India.
Part of the lectures’ content comes from Multitude.asia, an expanding online database for activism in Asia, established by Huang and his team.
The series, known as Praxis School, is a new project by TheCube Project Space (立方計畫空間), an art gallery that invites professionals to hold thematic lectures and workshops on various subjects.
Huang’s lectures will be held monthly and they will run through February of next year. For more information, go to TheCube’s bilingual Web site at thecubespace.com.
■ Tomorrow from 2pm to 5pm at Taipei Water Park’s (台北自來水園區) Environmental and Education Center, located at 1 Siyuan St, Taipei City (台北市思源街1號).
■ Admission is NT$300
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