Opening Week Program
Saturday, November 18
*Music Room (Gallery E, the basement)
11:00–12:00
Artist on Artist: Wang Wei and Lai Chih-Sheng
Moderator: Anthony Yung, Senior Researcher of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Venue: Music Room
Language: Mandarin, simultaneous translation in English
Both Wang Wei and Lai Chih-Sheng’s work at the Taipei Biennial 2023 produce spatial interventions that create an uncanny experience of architecture, and come together for a conversation delving into the politics of seeing and the minimal alterations that reconfigure the relationship between bodies and their surroundings.
13:00–14:00
Artist on Artist: dj sniff and Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Moderator: Brian Kuan Wood, curator of Taipei Biennial 2023
Venue: Music Room
Language: English, simultaneous translation in Mandarin
We are constantly recording and being recorded, but artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian and musician, curator, and producer dj sniff pause to ask how recordings give and take their own life through their own forms of continuation and decay.
14:30–15:30
Artist on Artist: Terre Thaemlitz (a.k.a. DJ Sprinkles) and Alexander Provan, editor of Triple Canopy, New York
Venue: Music Room
Language: English, simultaneous translation in Mandarin
Writer and Editor in Chief of Triple Canopy Magazine Alexander Provan and Terre Thaemlitz, an award-winning multimedia producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ, and owner of record label Comatonse Recordings, will be in conversation about the political potential of withdrawing from systems of representation that reduce expressions of dissent or dissonance to genres with affiliated demographics.
15:30–17:30
Live performance by Li Jiun-Yang and Buddha, Tiger, Dog
Venue: 2A (209)
Taiwanese artist Li Jiun-Yang, together with the band Buddha, Tiger, Dog, will perform as part of his presentation The Psychedelic Spiritual Ceremony, an installation on view in the exhibition that traces his artistic journey over the past few decades.
17:30–19:00
Listening session: Artist-run music labels
Presentations:
- DJ Sprinkles (Comatonse Recordings, JP)
- Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ and Wok the Rock (YesNoWave Music, ID)
Facilitated by Reem Shadid, curator of Taipei Biennial 2023
Venue: Music Room
In a series of 40-minute presentations or listening sessions, artist-run experimental music labels share stories, moments, motives, challenges, and lots and lots of music from the different lives and networks their labels have nurtured over the years.
Sunday, November 19
*Music Room (Gallery E, the basement)
11:00–12:00
Artist on Artist: Ellen Pau and Samia Halaby
Moderator: Freya Chou, curator of Taipei Biennial 2023
Venue: Music Room
Language: English, simultaneous translation in Mandarin
A rare occasion in Taipei brings together two pioneering artists of their time to share insights on their practice and changing relationships with images and technology. Ellen Pau, one of the first video artists in Hong Kong, produced major works in the late 1980s and 90s that reflected Hong Kong’s transition, as well as her own politics and life through the evolution of technological media. Samia Halaby, a 86-year-old Palestinian abstract painter living in New York, began advancing her painterly concerns with the science of visual perception by experimenting with digital technology in the 1980s.
14:00–15:30
Performance: Kinetic Painting Jamming
Samia Halaby & Julian Abraham “Togar”
Venue: Music Room
Samia Halaby is joined by artist and musician Julian Abraham “Togar” for a live audio-visual performance taking the form of a kinetic-painting jam session. Halaby will perform using a program she wrote in the 1990s that converted the computer keyboard into an “abstract painting piano” to create kinetic paintings, accompanied by Togar on various electronic sound instruments.
16:00–17:00
Listening session: Artist-run music labels
Presentations:
- Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Nigel Brown (Ting Shuo Hear Say, TW)
- Chi-Guang Wang (Senko Issha Record, TW)
Facilitated by Reem Shadid, curator of Taipei Biennial 2023
Venue: Music Room
In a series of 40-minute presentations or listening sessions, artist-run experimental music labels share stories, moments, motives, challenges, and lots and lots of music from the different lives and networks their labels have nurtured over the years.