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    7th Asian Art Biennial

    Jan 03, 2020 1 minute
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    urated by artists Hsu Chia-Wei and Ho Tzu Nyen, and held at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in (2017) pairs dramatic photographs of the Kegon waterfalls with excerpts from the diaries of kamikaze pilots who justified their imminent deaths with European Romantic poetry and philosophy. Looking at Taiwan’s history, Ting Chaong-Wen’s multichannel video and black-light, night-club-like installation recounted the Japanese empire’s attempts to grow cinchona trees to produce the anti-malarial drug quinine as part of its pre-war domination of Asia. Bringing resource exploitation to the present day, Liu Chuang’s three-channel video (2018) maps the neocolonial dynamics of hydroelectric power in remote regions of southeastern China that paradoxically is also driving digital currencies.

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