On Thursday, April 18, at Palazzo delle Prigioni, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” presents public programs on “island thinking” during the opening week of the 60th Venice International Biennale. This schedule is linked Yuan Goang-Ming: The Daily WarTaiwan Collateral Event, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
The opening day evening, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” will highlight island thinking as a survival methodology and touch on what it means to be an island in a time when rising tides are a reality. Artist Yuan Goang-Ming, curator Abby Chen and three curators from the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), Tate Modern (UK) and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum will discuss the exhibition. Yuan Goang-Ming: The Daily War. Next, Iraqi artist Ali Yass and Palestinian artist and curator Joud Al-Tamimi (both living in Berlin) will present a solidarity of past and present yearnings and unfinished political projects in “Live Performance: Go Tell It to the Mountain”.
Islands can be refuges, points of connection, spaces of exchange and places of transformation, but they are also considered areas of conflict and negotiation. The public forum aims to take the observations of artists’ convergence and diaspora, as well as representations of the situation in Taiwan, as a starting point for the joint participation of curators, performers and interdisciplinary practitioners from multiple regions, on the occasion of Biennale Arte 2024. subject, Foreigners everywhere.
Yuan Goang-Ming: The Daily War: Opening Public Programs
Thursday, April 18, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice, Italy
Public forum: “Thinking like an island”
Speakers: Yuan Goang-Ming (Exhibition Artist), Abby Chen (Exhibition Curator), Naz Cuguoğlu, (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Programs, Asian Art Museum), Hera Chan (Assistant Curator, Asia-Pacific, Tate Modern), Birde Tang (Curator, Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi)
Live performance: “Go tell me to the mountain”
Performers: Joud Al-Tamimi (Artist, Curator), Ali Yass, Artist
For more information, visit tfam.museum.
