Taiwanese artists Shu-Lea Cheang, Yu-Cheng Chou, Po-Chih Huang, Hui-Yu Su and Cheng-Ta Yu are invited to participate in Taiwanese Pavilion at Performa 19 Biennial, the eighth edition of the biennial presents more than twenty new commissions by artists from over a dozen countries around the world to join in three weeks of exciting programming, from November 1–24, 2019, at locations throughout New York City.
The Taiwanese Pavilion is part of the PAVILION WITHOUT WALLS program, co-curated by Performa, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, supported by Taiwanese Ministry of Culture and the Taipei Cultural Center in New York. The Pavilion Without Walls is a series of new performances co-commissioned by Performa and international cultural partners to bring vibrant contemporary artists to the biennial. The performances commissioned through this initiative often travel from the biennial oversees, fostering cultural exchange and connecting international artists with both the New York City arts community and global audiences. The Pavilions are motivated by Performa’s strong belief that the arts foster tolerance and a deeper understanding among world cultures. Past Pavilions include: Norwegian Pavilion, Australian Pavilion, Polish Pavilion, Estonian Pavilion, and the South African Pavilion.
For Performa 19, technological pioneer Shu Lea Cheang (b.1954, Taiwan, lives in Paris) will present SLEEP1237, during which participants will be read to sleep, following a screening and public discussion of her early innovative work. Yu-Cheng Chou (b. 1976, Taiwan, lives in Taipei) will explore systems of labor, exchange and trade in New York, by tracking the movements of distributed goods such as soybeans and whole wheat. Illuminating the lived experiences of Asian immigrants in New York, Po-Chih Huang (b. 1980, Taiwan, lives in Taipei), whose complex conceptual works challenge industry status quo, will arrange an elegy for Song Yang, a Chinese immigrant sex worker who committed suicide in Flushing, Queens in 2017. In Su’s first live theatrical work, artist and film director Hui-Yu Su (b. 1976, Taiwan, lives in Taipei) will survey the life of Tian Qiyuan, Taiwan’s first openly gay and HIV-positive student and co-founder of the experimental 1980’s Taiwanese theater group Critical Point Theatre Phenomenon, by reinventing Tian’s influential production White Snake, originally inspired by a classic Ming Dynasty legend. And video artist Cheng-Ta Yu (b. 1983, Taiwan, lives in Taipei) will examine the phenomenon of social media celebrity via a series of staged interventions—both online and in real life—working with influencers to consider cultural stereotypes.
Performa 19 is turning New York City landscape into a big open-air museum and theater. The Taiwanese artists will express their statement and interact with New York audience through the arguments and discussion on a range of global issues, such as labor, immigrants, trade, gender equality and the influence of social media.
ABOUT PERFORMA:
Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
The eighth edition of the Performa Biennial once again celebrates the extraordinary vitality, inventiveness and significance of New York as a leading global performance capital of the world.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the influence of the school and the radical concept of its curriculum, which holds performance at its core, appears in several Commissions. The Bauhaus is also the focus of the Performa Institute programming, daily events, and talks at the Performa 19 Hub – a pop-up space in Manhattan that becomes the epicenter of the three-week program.
Performances, Exhibitions and Screenings：
♦ SHU LEA CHEANG
→SHU LEA CHEANG ONSCREEN
November 2, 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Anthology Film Archives | 32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
http://performa19.org/tickets/shu-lea-cheang-onscreen
→SLEEP1237
November 2, 5:50 pm- November 3, 6:25 am
Performa HUB | 47 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
http://performa19.org/tickets/sleep1237
♦ CHENG-TA YU
→FAMEME
November 2, 12:00 pm-3:00 pm
November 7, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 8, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 9, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 10, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 14, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 15, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 16, 1:00 pm,7:00 pm
November 17, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 21, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 22, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 23, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
November 24, 1:00 pm-7:00 pm
WALLPLAY 321 CANAL | 321 Canal Street, New York, NY 10013 \
http://performa19.org/tickets/fameme
♦ PO-CHIH HUANG
→HEAVEN ON FOURTH
November 8-24
Performa HUB | 47 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
http://performa19.org/tickets/heaven-on-fourth
♦ YU-CHENG CHOU
→UNTITLED
November 20-21
Performa Hub at Deitch Proeject | 18 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013
http://performa19.org/tickets/untitled-2019
♦ HUI-YU SU
→THE WHITE WATERS
November 15, 8:30 pm-9:30 pm
November 16, 8:30 pm-9:30 pm
November 17, 8:30 pm-9:30 pm
Abrons Arts Center | 466 Grand Street, New York, NY 10002
http://performa19.org/tickets/the-white-water
新聞聯絡人：駐紐約台北文化中心 鄢繼嬪
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