Organized by Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), the 13th version of the Taipei Biennial, titled Small World, opens November 18, 2023, and runs by way of March 24, 2024. Curated by Freya Chou, Reem Shadid, and Brian Kuan Wood, the biennial options works from 58 native and worldwide artists, musicians, and writers, reworking the museum into an area of listening, gathering, and improvising.
There is a lonely and entitled place to which now we have misplaced components of ourselves and our societies, however it could even be a spot that welcomes unusual acts of refusing to scale up or down, to amplify, unplug, transfer, or keep put. The “small world” may lure us in direction of illusions of inconceivable permanence and ease, in direction of absolute primacies and intoxicating authenticities that surpass all influences, promising the consolation of turning into immersed in ourselves. However, it additionally encourages us to betray the have to translate and be understood so we will please others for some eventual profit that by no means arrives. Maybe we took too lengthy to acknowledge an imbalance in scales as insufferable, and perhaps it is just now that we will start to discover how restricted motion can deliver expressive energy.
Small World invitations guests to reorder their relationships with different individuals and their environment in the wake of the pandemic. It proceeds alongside a number of dimensions to delve into the emotional exchanges and interactions amongst individuals, from artworks on show in the galleries and musical performances to analysis and artwork initiatives by artists-in-residence, workshops, public packages, a web-based journal, and a cinema program.
To be taught extra, go to taipeibiennial.org/2023.
