A Blast of Lyricism: Contemporary Taiwanese Art and Its Global Connections

Schedule

Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 am to Tue, 04 Nov, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, SC

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This international conference examines the global impact of contemporary Taiwanese art. Detail of programme: https://shorturl.at/BEy3T
Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:45 AM
3 Nov Panel 1: Art, Identity and Tension in a Divided Region

Info: 1. Junghee Moon (Tainan National University of the Arts), “The Origin of Othered Subjectivity of Monochrome Painting in Contemporary Asian Art”
2. Shih-ming Pai (National Taiwan Normal University), “War Memories: Post-Martial Law Art and the Political Poetics in Taiwan”
3. Roberto Figliulo (Autonomous University of Barcelona), “Dai Bih-in: A Taiwanese Artist in Catalonia”
4. Jing-jung Huang (Tainan Art Museum), “The Avant-Garde and Contemporary Dimensions of Tseng Pei-yao in Taiwan: Art as a Response to the Self, Land, and Era”


🕑: 10:50 AM - 12:40 PM
3 Nov Panel 2: Liminal Space and Indigenous Voice

Info: 5. Ching-yeh Hsu (University of Taipei), “Creative Assemblages: Breath, Soul and Wind as Resistance in Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art”
6. Yi-chih Huang (Taipei National University of the Arts), “Lyric Urban Guerrilla: Embodied Practices in Reimagining the Everyday City and Memories”
7. Wei Hsiu Tung (National University of Tainan), “Socially-Engaged Art for Rural Revitalization: Artivism, Placemaking and Sustainability”
8. Pedith Pui Chan (Independent Scholar), “Contested Identities in Liminal Spaces: Visual Negotiations and Representations of Hong Kong in Chow Chun Fai’s Artistic Practice”


🕑: 01:20 PM - 02:20 PM
3 Nov Keynote Lecture: Jui-Chung Yao

Info: Jui-Chung Yao (Artist, National Taiwan Normal University and National Taipei University of the Arts)
“The Political Geography of the Ruins”
Chaired by Richard J Williams (University of Edinburgh)


🕑: 02:30 PM - 04:15 PM
3 Nov Panel 3: Subversive Ink

Info: 9. Hui-wen Lu (National Taiwan University), “Walking Their Own Paths: Women Calligraphers in Contemporary Taiwan and Beyond”
10. Kuo-sheng Lai (Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum), “Decentralisation: The Emergence of Multifaceted Ink Art in Twenty-First Century Taiwan”
11. Henning von Mirbach (University of Cambridge), “Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Taiwan: The Ink Art of Yuan Hui-Li and Koon Wai Bong”
12. Aida Yuen Wong (Brandeis University), “Ancient Materials, Digital Methods: Lee Chun-yi's Revolutionary Approach to Ink Art”


🕑: 04:25 PM - 06:15 PM
3 Nov Panel 4: Immersive Memory and Artistic Agency

Info: 13. Sara Simic (Independent Scholar), “Colonial Radio Infrastructures Reimagined: The Possibilities of Former Japanese Navy Fongshan Communication Centre and National Radio Museum as sites of Contemporary (Sound) Art Research Practices”
14. Kai-ching Hsiao (Tainan Art Museum), “Memory in Soundscapes: The Interweaving of Visual and Auditory Experiences”
15. Chia-ling Yang (University of Edinburgh), “Plant Time, Handcrafted Memoir, and Algorithmic Art”
16. Mia Yingxin Liu (Johns Hopkins University), “The Architectonic Circle of Digital Being: The Art of Huang Hsin-Chien”


🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:25 AM
4 Nov Panel 5: Unbound Fabrics in Transnational Dialogue

Info: 17. Wessie Ling (London Metropolitan University), “Transnational Threads: Interpreting the East Asian Garment Industry through Huang Po-chih’s Waves”
18. Yayoi Motohashi (Kyoto Institute of Technology), “Reinterpreting Indigenous Aesthetics: Issey Miyake’s Influence on East Asian Fashion Practices”
19. Zhaohua Ho (Fu Jen Catholic University), “Fashion and Cultural Heritage: Tensions between Preservation and Innovation”


🕑: 10:35 AM - 12:20 PM
4 Nov Panel 6: Performativity beyond the Flesh

Info: 20. Izabella Łabędzka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), “The Lyrical Body: The Ceremonial Dance Theatre of Lin Lee-chen”
21. Yuwen Hsiung (Purdue University), “Echoes in the Dark: Riverbed Theatre’s The Forgotten and the Lyrical Body of Memory”
22. Kyunghee Pyun (State University of New York), “Lee Mingwei’s Critique of Heritage and Memory: Subverting Essentialism of Styles”
23. Yu-chieh Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Between Digital Human and Non-Human: The Aesthetics of the Body in Contemporary Media Art from Taiwan”


🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
4 Nov Keynote Lecture: Artist Ava Hsueh

Info: Ava Hsueh (Artist, Tainan National University of Arts), “Within the Pulse of Time: Ava Hsueh’s Abstract Painting”
Chaired by Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh)


🕑: 02:10 PM - 04:00 PM
4 Nov Panel 7: Art as Resistance in the Post-Truth Era

Info: 24. Billy Beswick (University of Oxford), “Queer Inheritance: Un/doing Gender and the Revitalisation of Indigenous Culture in Taiwan and Beyond”
25. Kathy Yim King Mak (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), “Cosmic Pebbles: Cosmology and Metaphorical Reclusion in Hong Kong Contemporary Art (2019–2023)”
26. Pei-yi Lu (National Taipei University of Education), “Care is a Form of Resistance: The Practice of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Taiwan”
27. Doris Sung (University of Alabama), “Two Coasts, Three Territories: Connecting Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland in the Participatory Installations of Linda Lai and Jaffa Lam”


🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
4 Nov Discussion and Closing Remarks
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
4 Nov Spotlight Taiwan VR Filmfest Talk: Digital Artist Ya-lun Tao

Info: Ya-lun Tao (National Tsing Hua University)
Chaired by Shih-ming Pai and with Discussant Mia Yingxin Liu


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