Let’s Play：Convolutions, the first Online Exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum

7/25（THU.）19:30-21:30

｜Agenda｜

19:30-20:15 Let’s Play: Lucky (Chinese)

20:15-20:30 Simon Denny Tour Guide (Chinese and English)

20:30-21:30 Discussion and QA (Chinese and English)

｜Introduction｜

We invited Lucky to be our livestreamer of a Let’s Play session for the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s first online exhibition “Convolutions”, curated by Nadim Samman of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in collaboration with TFAM. The exhibition invites artists to create new works inspired by contemporary technologies such as AI, NFT, metaverse and reflections on decentralized networks. Following the Let’s Play session, participating artist Simon Denny will present an online tour of his work “Metaverse Landscapes: Patchwork”, which combines modernist abstract paintings and colonial landscape elements with the economic systems of the metaverse and NFT. Through map-like scenes in the work, we will traverse a patchwork of territories in an attempt to pass the border, which could be interpreted as a critique of the notion that the metaverse is immersive, singular, and universal. Together, Lucky, Simon and the audience will discuss global capitalism in Web 3.0 and reimagine the concept of land ownership in the present and future worlds.

｜Rigistration｜https://forms.gle/K632RG9X55btWDeKA

｜Livestream Host Biography｜

Yun-Cheng (Lucky) Chen

Lucky Chen is a freelance strategist. He currently serves as the Strategy Director for Les Petites Choses Production and Sea Belongings, as the g0v #re-place project initiator, Manager of the National Museum of Taiwan History’s Time-Space Island Cuisine NFT Design Workshop, and as an international consultant for the European Union S+T+ARTS Prize 2024. In 2015 he co-founded Planett Coworking Space, and in 2018 he served as Design Director and Maintenance Consultant for the Taipei City Urban Regeneration Office “Taipei City Community Work Think Tank Preliminary Project.” He also served as Producer for the Taiwan International Festival of Arts (TIFA) special project Battle Jam for three years, as well as Chief Strategy Officer for the Taiwan National Cultural Congress in 2021. He has presented papers at the 2022 Asia Pacific Network for Cultural Education and Research biennial conference and the 2022 International Biennial Conference of Museum Studies. Lucky was Curator of the first TFAM Day project “Together We Can Find Our Way — #tfam_road.

｜Artist｜ 

Simon Denny 

Simon Denny (b. 1982 Auckland, New Zealand) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He makes artworks that unpack stories about technology using a variety of media including painting, web-based media, installation, sculpture, print and video.

Recent solo exhibitions include Petzel Gallery, New York (2024); Dunkunsthalle, New York (2024); Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2023); the Gus Fisher Gallery (University of Auckland), Auckland (2022); Outernet, London (2022); Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg (2021); K21– Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020); the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2019); MOCA, Cleveland (2018); OCAT, Shenzhen (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2016); Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); MoMA PS1, New York (2015); Portikus, Frankfurt (2014) MUMOK, Vienna (2013); Kunstverein Munich, Munich (2013).

｜Curator｜

Nadim Samman

Nadim Samman is Curator for the Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Nadim read Philosophy at University College London before receiving his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was Co-Director of Import Projects e.V. in Berlin from 2012 to 2019 and, concurrently, Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2013-2015). He curated the 4th Marrakech Biennale (with Carson Chan) in 2012, and the 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art in 2015. He co-founded and co-curated the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017) and the Antarctic Pavilion (Venice, 2015-). Widely published, in 2019 he was First Prize recipient of the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). His recent book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene is published by Hatje-Cantz, Berlin.

｜Curator of Public Program｜ 

Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. She holds a BA in Philosophy from National Taiwan University (TW) and an MA in Media Studies from Leiden University (NL). Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism and digital materialism. Projects she has curated include IMPAKT Festival Our Terms Our Conditions, Taipei Digital Art Festival-Fake It Real (2022), Embodied Interface (2020) and Uchronia (2020). As an artist, she often makes performances derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of human existence, with a focus on the female body, in-between identity and the circularity of time. Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art and the Cinedance Festival at the Eye Museum in Amsterdam, among others.

｜Notification｜

The online link for this event will be emailed to registrants the day before 25 July.