NOV 18
MAR 24, 2024
For co-curators Freya Chou, Brian Kuan Wood, and Reem Shadid, the title of the 13th Taipei Biennial, (2023) looked at the ecological issues around the country’s famed chip-manufacturing industry through the story of a female water-truck driver scouring rivers during a drought. Alongside a daily cinema program centered around newly-produced feature films, music formed a crucial element in many works. In the courtyard, Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s installation (2023) featured six amorphous forms doubling as resonant bodies for an immersive musical composition, while a gallery transformed into the Music Room hosted a program of live performances and musician residencies by dj sniff and, later, Wok the Rock and Julian Abraham Togar.
