“Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World” features 16 female artists from across the globe, who in their 70s or older continue to embark on new challenges. “Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Installation view of “Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2021. Right: Kim Soun-Gui, Forest Poems, 2021, mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy: Sprüth Magers Thomas Erben Gallery Lévy Gorvy. In collaboration with: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Left: Senga Nengudi, Warp Trance, 2007, multi-channel audio and video installation, dimensions variable. The transnational curatorial team has also added extra programmes, including a video section, archives, special screening, forums and a publication of readers. Visitors enter the city through the hatches as if they were travelling between reality and illusion in Wang’s sci-fi novel. The exhibition sections are joined together by “space hatches”, creating tranquil zones in a futurscape through the arrangement of lights, colours and the movement of visitors. There are 28 newly commissioned works in the biennial, including those by Taiwanese Lee Yung-Chih and Chen Chun Yu, Malaysian Tan Zi Hao, Japan’s Yuko Mohri and UuDam Tran Nguyen from Vietnam. While “phantasmagoria” refers to the “phantom-haunted house” constructed with light projection technology before the 19th century, Wang’s novel is about a prince cast adrift in outer space in 3069 AD.Īll the 417 works by the 38 artists and artist groups in the exhibition intend to break the stereotypes about Asia in Hollywood sci-fi movies, and meanwhile re-examine the metropolises, technologies, conflicts, gender, and imagined future of Asia from Asian artists’ viewpoints. This word owes its inspiration to Phantasmagoria, a sci-fi novel written in English by architect Wang Da-Hong.
Phantasmopolis is a newly coined Greek word comprising “phantasma” (phantom) and “polis” (city-state). Titled “Phantasmopolis”, AAB 2021 treats “Asian futurism” and “Asian sci-fi culture” as its main themes, seeking to review Asia’s past and present from the perspective of science fiction. The 8th Asian Art Biennial is headed by Taiwanese independent curator Nobuo Takamori, with a multinational curatorial team comprising Ho Yu-Kuan (Taiwan), Tessa Maria Guazon (Philippines), Anushka Rajedran (India) and Thanavi Chotpradit (Thailand). “Phantasmopolis”, the 8th Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Musem of Fine Art, Taichung
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