Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Louie Zalk-Neale and Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Asia Discovers Asia Meeting (ADAM)
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
31 July —
27 August 2023
Every year, ADAM invites international artists, curators, presenters and producers from the performing and visual arts to share their knowledge, concerns and practices. ADAM is structured into three sections: Artist Lab, a month-long research programme; Kitchen, which includes presentations of works-in-progress; and Assembly, featuring talks and exchanges.
Participating in the 2023 Artist Lab, Watering Intimacy, is Louie Zalk-Neale (Ngāi Te Rangi, Pākehā), an artist who embraces the power of body adornment to amplify and reframe queer and Māori life. Zalk-Neale shares their research during the ADAM Gathering programme, from 24 – 27 August.
On 26 August, Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāti Oneone, Ngāi Tūhoe), Artistic Director for Ngā Toi Māori, participates in the panel discussion Rethinking (Global) South. Boynton joins Tang Fu Kuen, Nayse López and Linda Mayasari to explore the politics of how 'South' in the term 'Global South' has been used or misused in art markets and institutional realms, provoking expanded understanding beyond traditional Western-centric approaches.
Every year, ADAM invites international artists, curators, presenters and producers from the performing and visual arts to share their knowledge, concerns and practices. ADAM is structured into three sections: Artist Lab, a month-long research programme; Kitchen, which includes presentations of works-in-progress; and Assembly, featuring talks and exchanges.
Participating in the 2023 Artist Lab, Watering Intimacy, is Louie Zalk-Neale (Ngāi Te Rangi, Pākehā), an artist who embraces the power of body adornment to amplify and reframe queer and Māori life. Zalk-Neale shares their research during the ADAM Gathering programme, from 24 – 27 August.
On 26 August, Mere Tokorahi Boynton (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāti Oneone, Ngāi Tūhoe), Artistic Director for Ngā Toi Māori, participates in the panel discussion Rethinking (Global) South. Boynton joins Tang Fu Kuen, Nayse López and Linda Mayasari to explore the politics of how 'South' in the term 'Global South' has been used or misused in art markets and institutional realms, provoking expanded understanding beyond traditional Western-centric approaches.
Lisa Reihana, Forest of being Time
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
01 July —
24 September 2023
Curated by Chien Cheng-Yi, Forest of being Time features time-based media which relies on “time retention techniques” such as carriers and playback mechanisms, and attempts to explore the indescribable “liminal/marginal moments” of life and the ambiguous passages “between” here and there that defy categorisation.
The exhibition's title draws inspiration from Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, a profoundly existential work that portrays chaos as a forest where space has no specific orientation and time has no significance at all. It belongs to the liminality between life and death, and crevice between reality and dreams.
Artists include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bill Viola, Chang Kuang-Ho, Chang Wen-Hsuan, Jane Jin Kaisen, Lee Yanor, Lin Guan-Ming, Lisa Reihana, Pilar Mata Dupont, Tseng Yu-Chin, Wang Hsiang-Lin, Wang, Ya-Hui and Wu Chi-Tsung.
Curated by Chien Cheng-Yi, Forest of being Time features time-based media which relies on “time retention techniques” such as carriers and playback mechanisms, and attempts to explore the indescribable “liminal/marginal moments” of life and the ambiguous passages “between” here and there that defy categorisation.
The exhibition's title draws inspiration from Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka on the Shore, a profoundly existential work that portrays chaos as a forest where space has no specific orientation and time has no significance at all. It belongs to the liminality between life and death, and crevice between reality and dreams.
Artists include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bill Viola, Chang Kuang-Ho, Chang Wen-Hsuan, Jane Jin Kaisen, Lee Yanor, Lin Guan-Ming, Lisa Reihana, Pilar Mata Dupont, Tseng Yu-Chin, Wang Hsiang-Lin, Wang, Ya-Hui and Wu Chi-Tsung.
Taipei Popcorn, 1972, Toffler – Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition
Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
13 September —
29 October 2022
Double Square Gallery presents 1972, Toffler – Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition, the artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery, which includes work featuring legendary drag artist Taipei Popcorn, from Aotearoa New Zealand.
A sequel to Su’s Future Shock (2019), the exhibition features a brand-new video installation, photographic works, and sketches. The main work showcased in the exhibition, a video installation titled Toffler, Oliver, and the Last Man on Earth (2022), draws inspiration from Alvin Toffler’s 1970 masterpiece, Future Shock, and is created with the approach of “re-shooting” – Su’s signature creative method, which has become well-known in recent years – to embed imagination of the future from the 1970s in a contemporary context, and further lead the audience into an imaginary sci-fi world of “the future from the past” by interweaving human fragility, advancement and evolution of modern information technology with predictions about life and politics.
Double Square Gallery presents 1972, Toffler – Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition, the artist's third solo exhibition at the gallery, which includes work featuring legendary drag artist Taipei Popcorn, from Aotearoa New Zealand.
A sequel to Su’s Future Shock (2019), the exhibition features a brand-new video installation, photographic works, and sketches. The main work showcased in the exhibition, a video installation titled Toffler, Oliver, and the Last Man on Earth (2022), draws inspiration from Alvin Toffler’s 1970 masterpiece, Future Shock, and is created with the approach of “re-shooting” – Su’s signature creative method, which has become well-known in recent years – to embed imagination of the future from the 1970s in a contemporary context, and further lead the audience into an imaginary sci-fi world of “the future from the past” by interweaving human fragility, advancement and evolution of modern information technology with predictions about life and politics.
Xin Cheng, Opening Season: IsLand Bar - Ratava
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
09 September —
09 November 2022
Bringing together five artists and their local avatars from across the Asia-Pacific, IsLand Bar – Ratava conflates cocktailing and storytelling in a bar setting. Each of the artists, including Aotearoa-based Xin Cheng, will host an island to serve a signature cocktail, a political concoction of island histories and realities. An invitation to drink and rethink what has made cultural and social identities. Curated by Joyce Ho and Cheng Hsien-Yu, commissioned as a part of the Taipei Performing Arts Center opening season program 2022.
Bringing together five artists and their local avatars from across the Asia-Pacific, IsLand Bar – Ratava conflates cocktailing and storytelling in a bar setting. Each of the artists, including Aotearoa-based Xin Cheng, will host an island to serve a signature cocktail, a political concoction of island histories and realities. An invitation to drink and rethink what has made cultural and social identities. Curated by Joyce Ho and Cheng Hsien-Yu, commissioned as a part of the Taipei Performing Arts Center opening season program 2022.
White Fungus at Taipei Art Book Fair
Taipei Art Book Fair, Huashan Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
13 November —
15 November 2020
White Fungus will exhibit at the Taipei Art Book Fair at Huashan Creative Park on November 13-15. This is one the few art book fairs to take place this year. Due to Taiwan's successful elimination of Covid, the fair will operate as usual but will follow the measures set out by the CDC.
White Fungus will exhibit at the Taipei Art Book Fair at Huashan Creative Park on November 13-15. This is one the few art book fairs to take place this year. Due to Taiwan's successful elimination of Covid, the fair will operate as usual but will follow the measures set out by the CDC.
Taiwan-New Zealand Dialogue on Cultural Exchange Policies amid Covid-19
Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts, Taiwan Busan 3rd Floor, Taipei, Taiwan
10.00AM — 12.30PM
24 October 2020
This event is organised by the Taiwan Cultural Policy Research Association as part of the 2020 Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts (TTTIFA). This year, as all international events around the world are overwhelmed by the landslide of the Covid-19 pandemic, we understand the importance to maintain the communications between countries through arts and culture that facilitate understanding among peoples in this hardship. Taiwan and New Zealand are both signalled in international media for their success in controlling the spreading of Covid-19 within their borders and maintaining the economic activities as much as possible. Nevertheless, art and cultural workers are severely impacted during this time. International cultural organizations and policy makers are urging to find methods to reconnect to the world. Cultural fields in Taiwan and New Zealand are not only facing the challenge in resuming the domestic dynamics, but also the need to reconnect to the world while keeping the nation safe. This forum aims to open a dialogue between international cultural organizations and practitioners of the two countries and exchange their observations and ideas that may lead to further progress on their works of cultural exchanging. Speakers will include New Zealand art professionals Ron Hanson, Editor of White Fungus and Catherine George, Senior Adviser of International Services & Initiatives, Creative New Zealand as well as Taiwan art professionals Wei Wan-jung, Director of OISTAT and Catherine Lee , Director of Taipei Artist Village. Contemporary HUM is pleased to support this initiative in documenting the discussion through the publication of an edited transcript on its online platform in coming months.
This event is organised by the Taiwan Cultural Policy Research Association as part of the 2020 Tua-Tiu-Tiann International Festival of Arts (TTTIFA). This year, as all international events around the world are overwhelmed by the landslide of the Covid-19 pandemic, we understand the importance to maintain the communications between countries through arts and culture that facilitate understanding among peoples in this hardship. Taiwan and New Zealand are both signalled in international media for their success in controlling the spreading of Covid-19 within their borders and maintaining the economic activities as much as possible. Nevertheless, art and cultural workers are severely impacted during this time. International cultural organizations and policy makers are urging to find methods to reconnect to the world. Cultural fields in Taiwan and New Zealand are not only facing the challenge in resuming the domestic dynamics, but also the need to reconnect to the world while keeping the nation safe. This forum aims to open a dialogue between international cultural organizations and practitioners of the two countries and exchange their observations and ideas that may lead to further progress on their works of cultural exchanging. Speakers will include New Zealand art professionals Ron Hanson, Editor of White Fungus and Catherine George, Senior Adviser of International Services & Initiatives, Creative New Zealand as well as Taiwan art professionals Wei Wan-jung, Director of OISTAT and Catherine Lee , Director of Taipei Artist Village. Contemporary HUM is pleased to support this initiative in documenting the discussion through the publication of an edited transcript on its online platform in coming months.