Events

Alice Schÿler Mallet Talk

From industrial harbor to old churches, from nuclear power plants to castle of Renaissance, we reinterpret historical  buildings and traditions and try to bring new enlightment on the past, reviving the memory, making people both proud and surprised of their own history.

Bamboo Curtain Studio: Autumn Studio Open

All the art open, just in BCS!

Embracing Community through dialogue and unleashing the synergy of change

The aim of this course is to offer a capacity‐development opportunity to individuals in any sector (government, business, non‐ profit) who wish to provide strong and effective leadership in the design and implementation of processes that engage actors within and across different groups in society.

Residency Artist Exhibition│LO Yuen-yi

By appropriating some gender stereotyped Chinese characters that have the female ideograph, I have been attempting to break away from the coded registrations of language.

News

Chang-Jin Lee: COMFORT WOMEN WANTED

Based on artist Chang Jin-Lee’s research since 2007 in Asia, (including Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, and Australia), meeting “comfort women survivors” and a former Japanese soldier from W.W.II,COMFORT WOMEN WANTED involves ad-like prints and multichannel video installation.

2012 Global Art Project

Global Art Project spreads world peace by promoting tolerance and non-violence. The Global Art Project is an expression of the idea: We Are All One.

Residency report from Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan by Veronica Frenning

I spent a month at the Bamboo Curtain Studio (Taiwan) in November 2011. It is located in Zhuwei, New Taipei, surrounded by a mountainous landscape along the Danshui River. Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS) encourages cross-cultural exchange and can accommodate multiple artists at once. During the time I was in residence, there were other artists working there from Sardinia, Hong Kong, California, and an aboriginal performer from the Ami tribe in Taiwan.

The Winners of The 4th Emerging Artist Program

Bamboo Curtain Studio (BCS) select six national and international artists/groups in the program. It is expected that their projects will bring in new ideas and perspectives and their work will show the diversity of art in the world.

2012 ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project

Artists from all countries are invited to send a proposal for a site-specific outdoor sculpture to be created during a 25-day artist in residency (April 12 – May 7, 2012) in Cheng Long, Yunlin County, Taiwan. The selected artists create large-scale sculpture installations focused on environmental issues surrounding food production and organic aquaculture.

Through the Bamboo Wall: Solo Exhibition by Saif Osmani

The artist recently returned from a residency in Taiwan (as part of Bamboo Curtain Studio's Emerging Artist's Programme), where he interviewed practitioners and recorded the places where he found bamboo within Taipei City, Chaiyi and Nantou.

Quotation

My project at the Bamboo Curtain Studio was crucial in the development of my work. At the time it was one of the few places in Taiwan that was open and welcome of installation projects. Due to the large scale of the exhibition space it gave me the opportunity to work in a scale that would later go on to define my work. -- Michael Lin

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