※ No reservations required. Free admission.
※ For more details, please visit the official TFAM website. Lectures and discussions will take place primarily in Mandarin. Consecutive interpretation will be provided in Mandarin for English remarks.

During the twentieth century, viewer participation gradually became one of the dominant trends of artistic practice, and it has come to play an increasingly robust role in art ever since. Looking back on the history of modern art, in his seminal treatise of 1957 "The Creative Act," the artist Marcel Duchamp laid the theoretical foundation for his work: "participatory creation." He stressed the importance of the spectator’s participation in and response to an artwork, because without it, the work is incomplete. Yet while Duchamp stressed audience participation, he did not invite viewers to join with him in making his art. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, contemporary art, with its emphasis on society, politics and public participation, has been on the ascendant, its contexts, forms and vocabularies appearing under an array of names, such as “public art” or “community art.” Many contemporary artists have made spectator participation, defined in a variety of ways, an element of their creative process, forming a cycle in which works are collectively made. The exhibition "Lee Mingwei and His Relations," currently in progress at TFAM, brings together many works that Lee Mingwei has produced from the 1990s to today, including several participatory projects. Like much of the rest of the world, in Taiwan it has also become common for participatory art and related themes. The Panel Discussion is a conversation between the exhibition’s curator and local scholars and artists on many different aspects of participatory art.

Moderator
Ping Lin | Director, TFAM

Participants
Mami Kataoka | Curator
Chen, Kuang-Yi | Art Historian
Wang, Sheng-Hung | Art Critic
Hsu, Ching-ye | Art Historian
Wei-Li Yeh | Artist

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