The 2014 Taipei Biennial is curated by Nicolas Bourriaud under the theme The Great Acceleration. The curatorial concept touches on several important ideas, such as Anthropocene, relational aesthetics, and speculative realism, to interpret contemporary artworks with respect to subject matter, form, and multiplicity or complexity of elements.

The museum has programmed a series of lectures and roundtable discussions to help audience members understand Bourriaud's concepts more thoroughly and connect them more closely to exhibited artworks. The museum has invited local and international speakers, including artists represented in the exhibition, specialists and scholars.

Roundtable: “Artists, machines and nature”

09/13 (Sat.) 14:30-16:30 / TFAM Auditorium

Participants:
Nicolas Bourriaud, Curator
Huang Hai-ming, Director of TFAM
TB2014 Participating Artists:
Maria Loboda, Nathaniel Mellors, Shimabuku, Anicka Yi, Haegue Yang, Lin Kuo-wei,Huang Po-chih
* Simultaneous Interpreting service in Chinese and English.

Panel: “About Relationship”

09/14 (Sun.) 14:30-16:30 / TFAM Auditorium

Nicolas Bourriaud
Prof. Shiau Jenn-bang, Prof. of Graduate Institute of Philosophy, NCU
Commented by Prof. Chang Yi-chung, Lecturer of Department of Philosophy, THU
* Simultaneous Interpreting service in Chinese, French and English.

Speech: “Anthropocene and Art”

09/20 (Sat.) 14:30-16:30 / TFAM Auditorium
Prof. Li Chia-wei, Prof. of Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, NTHU

Speech: “An Emerging Alternative Paradigm derived from the Asian Biennials”

10/18 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30 / TFAM Library
Dr. Marek Bartelik, President of AICA International  
* Progressive Interpreting service in Chinese and English.

No Reservaion in advance, free entrance.