Program Leader
LU Pei-Yi
(Ph.D., humanity and Cultural Studies, University of London, UK) Assistant Professor, Creative Industry Department. Research Area: Curatorial Studies in Theory and Practice, Off-Site Art, Taiwan Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies. Her research interests are off-site art, museum studies and curating in theory and practice. A research-based book edited by her Contemporary Art Curating in Taiwan (1992-2012) was nominated the 10th Award of Art China. She was an associate curator of 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale “We Have Not Participated” (2014); curator of "Micro Micro Revolution"(2015) for Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA); co-curator of “The 5th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition-Negative Horizon”(2016). She had been teaching at Taipei National University of the Arts and Hong Kong Chinese University. Now, as an assistant professor of Department of Cultural Creative Industry and Programme leader of MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art, National Taipei University of Education. |
Professors
LIN Chi-Ming
(PhD. École pratique des hautes études, French) Professor, Art and Design Department. Research area: Art Theory, Aesthetics, French Contemporary Thoughts,Theory of Image LIN Chi-Ming's primary fields of interest include theory of image, aesthetics, and French contemporary thoughts. He is active as a critic, serving as a juror and nominator for the Taishin Arts Award for several years and now as President of AICA Taiwan. His academic posts also include Adjunct Professor at National Taiwan University, and Visiting Professor at Paris-7 Diderot University. His curated exhibitions include Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, The Future Museum of NPM at the National Palace Museum, which won 2009 MUSE silver Awards, The Digital Hand at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2010), and HSIEH Chun-Te’s “Le Festin de Chun-te” at the 2011 Venice Biennale (co-curated with Dominique Païni). He is a board member of journals such as Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum and NCCU Philosophical Journal, etc. He has also translated the works of numerous contemporary European philosophers. |
LIN Yung-Neng
(PhD. Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK) Processor, Creative Industry Department Research area: Museum Management, Audience Development, Festival Planning. Yung-Neng Lin is the Dean of College of Continuing Education at the National Taipei University of Education, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. His research area mainly focuses on museum management and audience development. He has been commissioned by the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan to establish the national standard and key performance indicators for museum sector. He is also the Director of the National Cultural Statistics Survey project in 2009. One of his articles entitled “Leisure – a function of museums? The Taiwan perspective” was awarded Best Paper for 2006 in he Management category in the international, peer reviewed Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. |
YinHua Chu
(Ph.D. Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK) Assistant Professor, Creative Industry Department Research Area: Image Practice, Urban Culture, History of Photography YinHua uses photography to explore different ways of seeing, treating the photographic image as a fragment frozen and extracted from the flow of time, and the camera as a bridge between mental image and visual perception. Her experiments have introduced new variables into some of the standard operations of both photography and urban geography. Her solo exhibitions include Imagined City (2010) and Staging Memories (2011) in London Gallery West, Once Upon a City… (2012) in Taipei Artist Village, Encoding Memories: Tainan (2012), Hopscotching Tainan (2013) in Tainan, Taiwan. Her group exhibitions include Afterimage (2014) in New York, Small or Big (2016) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum. She also curates the experimental exhibition Image Imaginings from the museum collection in Taipei Fine Arts Museum. |
(Ph.D, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK)
Assistant Professor, Art and Design Department. Research Area: Installation Practice, Sculpture, Practice-led research methodology James Ming–Hsueh Lee’s works often center on the objects found in the chain stores or surrounding our everyday life. He searches for alternative meanings in relation to art contexts. With a penetrating sense of humor, he reexamines and reflects upon the habitual understanding of ‘things’ indoctrinated by the media, education and society. He is the 2005 Taipei Arts Award First Prize winner, and has rich experience in exhibitions both at home and abroad. Recently, selected exhibitions include “2016 Taipei Biennial” (2016)and “The Testimony of Food: Ideas and Food” (2015) in Taipei Fine Arts Museum, “RIVER— The Way of Living in Transition Asia Contemporary Art Links” (2016) in Gwangju Biennial Gallery 1, “Things Wholesale” (2017) in Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, “Other Landscapes” (2012) in La Rotonde Place Stalingrad in Paris, “0 & 1: Cyberspace and the Myth of Gender” (2010) in 501 contemporary art center in Chongqing in Chine, “Simply Screen: In-between of Asia” (2009) in M.P Birla Millennium Art Gallery in London and Tanzfabrik Transart Institute in Berlin. |
Visiting Faculty
Kit Hammonds
Kit Hammonds works in contemporary art practice. His work is primarily involved in curating and frequently incorporates publishing, events, play and participation, education, research, artistic practice and performance strategies. Among his institutional roles he was a Senior Tutor in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (2007-2015), and a Curator at the South London Gallery (2003-2007). He is the founder of The Vernacular Institute(2004- ). Now, he is curator at the jumex museum, Mexico City |
Manray Hsu
Manray Hsu is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. He is co-founder and director (2010-2012) of Taipei Contemporary Art Center, editor-in-chief of ArtCo Magazine Mainland China edition (2013-2014), and teaches in art academies in Taiwan and abroad. Manray has served as juror for Venice Biennale (2001), Istanbul Biennial (2001), Hermes Art Award for Korean Contemporary Art (2007), Hugo Boss Asian Art Award (2012), etc. Selected exhibitions include: 2000 Taipei Biennial (with Jerome Sans), Naked Life (2006, MOCA Taipei), Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (with Gerardo Mosquera), 2008 Taipei Biennial (with Vasif Kortun), Biennale Cuvee in 2009 (the OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz), first edition of Autostrada Biennale (2017), etc. A main focus is on politics of mobility, borders of different forms and urban conditions in the age of globalisation, flows of capital, and activism-related art. Recent research includes interdisciplinary art practices related to environmental issues, multi-species interactions in urban and rural scenarios, with a special interest in viewing the Anthropocene from the perspective of Chinese Daoist philosophy. |
Sophie McIntyre
Sophie McIntyre is a curator, lecturer, and art writer based in Australia. Her research explores the relationship between politics, identity, and artistic agency in the production, selection, display, and reception of art, particularly in Taiwan and China. She is currently completing her forthcoming book entitled Imagining Taiwan: the role of art in Taiwan’s quest for identity (1987–2010) (Brill, 2018). Her texts have been published in art journals, periodicals and art catalogues in Australia and overseas, including Journal of Curatorial Studies; Art AsiaPacific; Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art; and Art Monthly Australia. She has curated over 30 exhibitions, many of which have focused on contemporary art from the Asia-Pacific region, and some of these have featured art from Taiwan and China. These exhibitions include Ink Remix: Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (2014-17 – touring); Penumbra: Contemporary Art from Taiwan (2007); Concrete Horizons: Contemporary Art from China (2005); and Face to Face: Contemporary Art from Taiwan (1999–2000). |
Anthony Gardner
Anthony Gardner is Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, England, where he is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory and a Fellow of The Queen’s College. He has published widely on subjects including postcolonialism, postsocialism and curatorial histories, and is an editor of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins. Among his books are Mapping South: Journeys in South-South Cultural Relations (Melbourne, 2013), Politically Unbecoming: Postsocialist Art against Democracy (MIT Press, 2015) and, also through MIT Press in 2015, the anthology Neue Slowenische Kunst: From Kapital to Capital (with Zdenka Badovinac and Eda Čufer), which was a finalist for the 2017 Alfred H Barr Award for best exhibition catalogue worldwide. His latest book, co-authored with Charles Green (University of Melbourne), is Biennials, Triennials and documenta: The exhibitions that created contemporary art, published by Wiley-Blackwell in summer 2016. |
Program Assistant |
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Tang Yu-Ting