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ROOTING, GROUNDING, AND CENTERING

s you entered “Phantasmapolis,” the 8th Asian Art Biennial (10/30/21–3/6) at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, you collected a round yellow sticker at the end of a catwalk platform with illuminated markers bearing the social-distance catchphrase, “Please keep 150 cm apart from others,” underfoot in Joyce Ho’s installation (2021). I’ve collected numerous dots in different colors over the past three years as evidence of having completed contact tracing and temperature checks upon my entry into malls, markets, and other public spaces. Though regulations have relaxed considerably since the start of the pandemic, most

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