Arthub Favorite: Week 68

Till We Have Faces—Creating Disturbances

Duration: 2017 August 19 – October 15
Venue: 2F, No. 13, Aly. 1, Lane 136, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
Artists: Wang Yen-Cheng, Chang Ching-Ju, Liang Ini, Chen Shing-Ying, Cheng Ming-Huei, and Lai Hsiao-Ying
Curators: Huang Sun-Quan (Chief curator), Jesse Tseng (Co-curator)

Arthub would like to introduce you an upcoming exhibition in Taipei, Till We Have Faces: Creating Disturbances, scheduled to be on view from 19 August to 15 October 2017 in TheCube Space. It represents the achievements of two projects, namely the thematic lecture series at the 2016 Praxis School and Till We Have Faces, both were led by Huang Sun-Quan, a renowned social activist and cultural researcher. Curated by Huang and Jesse Tseng, this exhibition features not only the video recordings and documents of social movements in Asia retrievable at the platform “Till We Have Faces: An Image Database of Social Movements in Asia” (http://multitude.asia), but also the works in diverse forms such as photography, documentary, dance and performance by Wang Yen-Cheng, Chang Ching-Ju, Liang Ini, Chen Shing-Ying, Cheng Ming-Huei, and Lai Hsiao-Ying, all of whom were participants in the 2016 Praxis School.

Prior to this exhibition, the “Articulators Summit” as the initial achievement of the project Till We Have Faces was selected by the Power Station of Art (Shanghai) for its Emerging Curators Program and exhibited at the museum in the end of 2016. Till We Have Faces: Creating Disturbances can be construed as another landmark of the project.

Invited by TheCube Project Space, Huang Sun-Quan has taken the lead of the thematic lecture series since January 2016. Thematized and based on his long-term research and social practice, the lecture series made good use of the content on Multitude.asia and was delivered on a monthly basis, giving the participants a contextual and systematic understanding of contemporary social movements in Asia.

About Curators

Huang Sun-Quan (Chief curator)

Huang Sun-Quan is an artivist engaging in architecture, media, social movements, and art. He is currently an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, and a visiting professor at the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art. His research interests include architecture and urbanism, culture and media, social mobilization, and interdisciplinary arts. He was a visiting fellow at the Lingnan University, Hong Kong (2004-2005) as well as the former editor-in-chief of POTS Weekly. In 1997, he organized the first anti-gentrification movement in Taiwan under the slogan “Against City Government’s Bulldozers.” He was also active in several social and media reform movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Jesse Tseng (Co-curator)

Born in Taichung, Jesse Tseng works and lives in Taipei. He earned his MA from the National Kaohsiung Normal University. He participated in the filming of Fortunate My Ass: The Story of the Black Hand Nakasi—Workers’ Band, a documentary affiliated to the project Till We Have Faces. He also participated in the organization of several exhibitions including Migrant Workers in Taiwan—Exhibition of Labor (2011), Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2012), Suffocating: Hei Jin-Cheng x Ewam Lin Prison Documents Exhibition (2013), and U-topophila: Huang Sun-Quan Solo Exhibition (2014) at the Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing. He is currently an executive editor at The News Lens in charge of culture and art news. He also works as a cultural critic, writer and editor.

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