ART/DOMESTIC 2021 For me, it was as if the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 began the month before, with the magnitude 7.3 quake that struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at 11.07pm on February 13.View More >

After a delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the winners of the 19th Taishin Arts Award were announced in a livestream presentation on Jul 10. The award is one of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors in the fields of art and culture, conferring NTD 1.5 million to a grand prize laureate and NTD 1 million each to laureates in the visual arts and performing arts categories.View More >

Looking back on 2020: Covid-19 and the changing nature of our faces, hands and breath What exactly has changed about the way we go about our daily lives as a result of the global spread of Covid-19?View More >

DOUBLE WHISTLER — By Andrew Maerkle “In recent years I’ve been struck by the affinities between astronomy and cinema. On one level, both engage with concepts of light, time, and distance. Indeed, it could be argued that both astronomy and cinema are essentially composed of only these elements. On yet another level, both can be understood as sharing, in different ways, fundamental aspects of uncertainty and speculation.”View More >

IMAGE CRISIS — “I think it would be too ambitious to say that the lectures in themselves offer an escape from capitalism, because that’s obviously not what’s happening. The starting point can be just a single question that I’m trying to answer. For Asia the Unmiraculous, this is the question of the relationship between race and capitalism.”View More >

A theatre performance that consciously deals with its fundamental temporal nature is a rare thing. Time forms the foundation of the viewing experience. Why is it…View More >