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Q and A with Yasmine Dabbous
Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director Timothy Brown (TB): You have stated that you live for passion and practicality. How do they inform your artistic practice? Yasmine Dabbous (YD): In art, like in life, I think it is important to care, to feel passionate about people and causes, and to express this passion vocally. But […]
Q&A with Artist John Paradiso
Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director Tim Brown (TB): In the special exhibition Pulse 2023, you feature several works that appear to be consistent with topics you have explored in the past that address identity and male sexuality. The superimposed patterns over some of the works however suggest a more complex and nuanced interpretation. What […]
Q&A with Artist and Curator Renée Stout
Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director credit: Renée Stout, photo by Grace Roselli Tim Brown (TB): In the special exhibition Pulse 2023, you feature four works that are part of the Hoodoo Assassin series. Can you tell us more about these works? How are they similar and/or different from other works you have produced? Renée […]
Newly Selected Artists, July 2022
Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron Mascha-Le Gros Party Mascha – Le gros Party questions the notion of celebration in the intimate, public, and political space. Highlighting evocative traces of a past event, this vivid new corpus allows us to imagine a universe in itself. Inspired by the figure of the “mascha” — the etymological root of the word […]
Ocean Currents, Islands and the South: The Conception of the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival
Interview with KMFA Director Yulin Lee (KMFA Director and Lead Curator of the 2021 Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival) Written by Lily Hsu Translated by Serena Lin The permanent currents of the ocean are, in a way, the most majestic of her phenomena. Reflecting upon them our minds are at once taken out from the earth so […]
Map, Route, Trail: From Chang En-Man’s Snail Paradise to redraw culture-ecological imagination
Text by Fang Yen-Hsiang Translated by Jo Ying Peng Coming in sight of a cross-totem tattoo on artist Chang En-Man’s left arm, it is made by Dion Kaszas, a Native American tattoo artist, using a special technique of skin stitch. This unique traditional tattoo technique originally stemmed from the Pacific coast indigenous peoples in […]
Varhung: The Infinite Body of Sound
by Tsui Tsai-Shan (Assistant Curator at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition Department) Sounds of breath and reverberation circulate throughout the space, ripples of amniotic fluid within the womb, palpitating into our hearts. Here, the breath is not merely the pulsation of life but also speaks of the harmony between humans and all living […]
Invasion: Words from the Exhibiting Artists
Gerardo Bravo Mother and Dead Child, Oil on wood panel, 16 x 16 in Artist Statement In my art, I explore the human condition, and emotions with a contemporary social perspective. As Nietzsche once said: “We have art in order not to die of the truth. In my art I explore human rights topics and […]
Artist Spotlight: Tjimur Dance Theatre
Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival [Transcript] Djavadjavai (Greeting in Paiwan language) Hello, I’m Ljuzem Madiljin, artistic director of Tjimur Dance Theatre. Today, I would like to share with you the concept “Varhung–The Body of Sound.” The Tjimur Dance Theatre was established in 2006. We’ve learned ancient rhymes in the Tjimur tribe. […]