• How Cities Failed Us

    A Review of Go Without Transfer
    by Tseng Che-Wei
    by Tseng Che-Wei

    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 …

  • Politics beyond Identity Politics

    2024 Whitney Biennial
    by Feng-yi Chu
    by Feng-yi Chu

    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 …

  • Entering the “Bad Deal” Landscape

    by John Stephenson
    by John Stephenson

    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. …

  • What is the Shape of the Could?

    A Review of A Prehistory of the Cloud
    by Chia-lin Lee
    by 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 …

  • What Kind of Frame? — Museum Lab of Lives in Disorder

    National Palace Museum x Easy Clubhouse(Cih-Fang) at C-lab
    by Shih-yu Hsu
    by Shih-yu Hsu

    Wearing 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 …