BOOKTALKS| Women in Contemporary Art: Standing Points, Alternative Spheres, Contact Areas
Speakers
Chieh-Hsiang Wu Professor, Department of Fine Arts, National Changhua University of Education
Pei-Yi Lu Director and Associate Professor, Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art, National Taipei University of Education
Pei-Chun Hsieh Non-tenured Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan Normal University
Yu-Ping Kuo Artist
Host
Yu-Chih Hsiao Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Shih Chien University
Location
DH Café (No. 153, Section 3, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City)
Fee
$150 (Can be applied toward book purchases made on the same day)
Introduction
As time progresses, today’s gender frameworks can be seen as fluid boundaries, and the term “woman” has become a concept brimming with ambiguity and agency, endowing contemporary Taiwanese art with diverse forms and reflections. She is embedded in places with specific material histories, evolving alongside them with unique inclinations and concerns. Simultaneously, she serves as various footholds, alternative territories, and contact zones for the liberated potential of human experience—achieved through overcoming prejudice and learning to tolerate differences.
This lecture draws upon exhibitions focusing on female artists from diverse perspectives in 2024, such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection exhibition Enclave: An Autobiography, which reinterprets Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as its conceptual basis, and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts’ Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists, a title that originates from the documentary literature of Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation. Four speakers will present related themes:
Pei-Yi Lu – Curating Overlooked Histories Through Enclave and Ocean in Us
Chieh-Hsiang Wu – Blind Spots in Art History as Heroic Biographies: Rising Stars, Prodigies, and Originality
Pei-Chun Hsieh – Critique of Female Biographies/Autobiographies/Autofictions
Yu-Ping Kuo – The Tension Between Fiction and History, Individual and Context: A Discussion of Treasure Chest
