SCREEN is proud to announce the launch of a new column The Age of Keywords: Geography as Metaphor, in collaboration with Taipei Contemporary Art Center (TCAC). This column aims to challenge the traditional format of art criticism, re-imaging new forms of effective art criticism in our time. Five contributors—Po-wei Wang, Fang Yen-Hsiang, Guo Juan, Shih-yu Hsu, and Zian Chen—will each develop a writing series based on a selected keyword. The manifestations could be essayistic reviews that draw connections between exhibitions and artworks from different countries, or fictional, poetic pieces that question our perceptions of reality. In addition, each contributor will curate a “happening” that centers around his or her chosen keyword in 2019. Ideas and subjects generated by the writings can be further expanded and passed on beyond written texts and shared between individuals in TCAC’s physical space.
Keyword: Acceleration by Zian Chen
How Much Accelerationism: On Hito Steyerl’s Factory of the Sun
Goldfinch Restaurant, “As We Part Ways Before 2046, Thank You for Those Years In the Mood for Love,”
Keyword: Extro-world by Fang Ten-Hsiang
Keyword: Beijing by Guo Juan
The Distance Between Reality and Us
Keyword: Media Archeology by Shih-yu Hsu
Keyword: Space by Po-wei Wang
On the transition of image and space in YU Yen-Fang’s A few suggestions on disappearance III
The project is sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan, Winsing Arts Foundation and Mrs. Su Mei-Chi.
