Today, we experience an ease of motion unknown to any prior civilization, and yet motion has become the most anxiety-laden of daily activities. Richard Sennett, 1977 [1] The exhibition …
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A Review of Go Without Transfer
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The 81st Whitney Biennial closed on August 11th. This year, curators Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli spent eleven months conducting investigations and research, visiting over two hundred artist studios, and …
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One of the challenges in bringing forth decolonial ideas to a contemporary art audience is the fact that, for many, colonial history often appears as belonging exclusively to the past. …
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One can hardly fail to notice that, from Benjamin’s chef d’oeuvre in 1935, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, derives the book title Art in the …
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What is the Shape of the Could?
A Review of A Prehistory of the Cloudby Chia-lin Leeby Chia-lin Lee“The Cloud is silent, in the background, and almost unnoticeable…until something goes wrong.” (pp.IX) A Prehistory of the Cloud departs from a few seemingly simple questions: What is the cloud? Where …
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What Kind of Frame? — Museum Lab of Lives in Disorder
National Palace Museum x Easy Clubhouse(Cih-Fang) at C-labby Shih-yu Hsuby Shih-yu HsuWearing rose-coloured glasses, people often romanticize about how mental illness influences artistic creation, with examples such as Vincent van Gogh cutting off his ear and Yayoi Kusama committing herself voluntarily …