Roaming the Horizon |History and Memory: A Compass for Yearning
Event Details
Date & Time｜30 Nov 2025 (Sun), 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Venue｜Galleries, BF, 1F & 2F
Check‑in｜Entrance, Gallerie 2A (2F)
Capacity｜20 participants
#memory / recollection、#the past、#experience
Introduction
Framed by the theme of “history and memory,” this guided tour leads visitors into the core proposition of Taipei Biennial 2025—yearning. Set against the intertwined layers of Taiwan’s historical landscape, the exhibition explores how yearning moves beyond nostalgia to become a tension between the real and the desired. It speaks not only to personal feeling but also to a collective experience. In a time when histories risk erasure, yearning becomes an act of seeking truth, identity, and belonging. Amid disinformation, fractured communities, and deepening divisiveness, yearning emerges as a longing for clarity, connection, and a place to stand. It is not nostalgia as a means of escaping reality; rather, it is an active reaching toward the unfinished edges of our world, retrieving buried histories and emotions from the gaps between loss and memory.
The tour invites visitors to appreciate how contemporary art gives form to this tension. Through moving images, performance, sculpture, and immersive environments, artists employ the languages of collage, transformation, and refiguration to make fractured time perceptible again, enabling history to be reimagined through sensorial echoes. Their works, poised at the intersection of memory, fragility, and creation, call us to listen to the world in new ways. Here, yearning is no longer an abstract idea but a vivid, urgent, and shared experience. Visitors are invited into an “in-between” space, where memory is reread and recreated across history and the present, truth and imagination. In this space, art becomes both a point of dialogue and a bridge to new possibilities.
About the Speaker
Wang Po-Wei is the Artistic Director of the Digital Art Foundation, Taiwan. He has served as a nominator for the Taishin Arts Award and was co-curator of the exhibition Re:Play: Performing the Archive at C-LAB (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab). His primary research interests include media and design theory, contemporary art history, cultural sociology, art/science/technology (AST), and the history of Western education. His publications include “Virtual Reality and the Three Modalities That Shaped the World,” “The Epistemic Turn in Digital Archives,” “Performance and Individuality in the Digital Network Era,” “Cultural Techniques and Cultural Technology,” “Flows and the World,” among others. Together with Chang Chin-Hui, he co-translated Niklas Luhmann’s Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (Taipei: Wu-Nan Book Inc ).
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 followTFAM visiting guidelines.