Award
Left: Hsu Su-Chen and Lu Chien-Ming Plant-Matter NeoEden: Born in a Vegetable Patch & Material World in the Amis Tribe of Riverbank
Right: Visual Arts Award ceremony
The Taishin Arts Awards recognize the best of Taiwanese visual and performing arts held in the country during the previous calendar year. Sponsored annually by the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture as a means of stimulating and expanding Taiwanese contemporary arts, the Awards consist of the two main Visual Arts Award and Performing Arts Award (carrying prize money of NT$1 million each) and a Jury’s Special Award (NT$300,000).
This year’s Eighth Visual Arts Award went to Hsu Su-Chen and Lu Chien-Ming for Plant-Matter NeoEden: Born in a Vegetable Patch & Material World in the Amis Tribe of Riverbank, an installation relating to the indigenous Amis Tribe that questions social norms in contemporary Taiwan. The four-member jury for visual arts included from Japan Director of National Museum of Art, Osaka, Tatehata Akira.
The Performing Arts Award went to Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group for Once, upon Hearing the Skin Tone, and the Jury’s Award to Su Wen-Chi for the dance piece Heroine.
The shortlisted works by all 15 finalists from both categories are currently on exhibition through June 6 at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.
Taishin Arts Awards
http://www.taishinart.org.tw/chinese/3_event/detail.php?ID=372
8th Taishin Arts Award exhibition
24 April – 6 June
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
http://english.kmfa.gov.tw/