Event Details

Date & Time｜29 Nov 2025 (Sat), 2:00–4:00 p.m.

Venue｜Galleries, BF, 1F & 2F

Check‑in｜Entrance, Gallerie 1A (1F)

Capacity｜30 participants

Keywords

#PuppetFigures  #ZhangYuBoilstheSea  #StratigraphicArchaeology  #CeramicFragments  #IntacttotheBone

Introduction

Part of the Roaming the Horizon series, the public programme of Taipei Biennial 2025, this session forms the Film and Moving Images segment of the series and focuses on how image languages are incorporated and transformed in contemporary art. The event contrasts the linear narratives of film with the ruptured, collaged, or open-ended strategies found in contemporary art, examining how the moving-image works presented in this exhibition reconstruct history and memory through the fluidity of time and perception. Through the twin lenses of “image language” and “artistic transformation”, participants are invited to consider how images convey geopolitics, memory, and fragility, while experiencing the urgency of yearning.

About the Speaker

Austin Ming-Han Hsu is a film and art critic. He holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts, an MA in Social Research and Cultural Studies from National Chiao Tung University, and a BA in Philosophy from Fu Jen Catholic University. He previously served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Horizon Publishing, Executive Editor of Film Appreciation Journal, and Editor at Gusa Publishing. Hsu is currently Chairperson of the Taiwan Film Critics Society and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at National Taiwan Normal University (Department of East Asian Studies), National Taiwan University of Arts (Department of Motion Picture), Taipei National University of the Arts (Department of Fine Arts), and Fu Jen Catholic University (Department of Communication Arts). He also runs the art and film website RHIZOME.

About Roaming the Horizon

Echoing the curatorial concept and spatial character of the 2025 Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon, the public programme series Roaming the Horizon adopts movement and flow as its guiding principles. The series invites speakers from the arts and other disciplines to guide visitors through the exhibition spaces, engaging with artworks through encounter and dialogue. Through a range of keywords and lines of thought, visitors are encouraged to develop their own perspectives and ways of experiencing the exhibition.

Additional Information

• Advance online registration is required and opens at 10:00 a.m. on 17 Nov 2025 (Mon) via the TFAM website.
• Check-in and on-site waiting list registration open at 1:40 p.m. Participants who do not check in by 2:00 p.m. will forfeit their places to visitors on the waiting list.
• Participants are required to borrow an audio guide device. Please present a valid form of identification (National ID, NHI card, student card or passport) at check-in for deposit.
• Admission requires a valid museum ticket. The event is free of charge once inside. Please follow TFAM visiting guidelines.