Contested Waters: Kaohsiung + Taipei Exhibition Workshops

2025-05-14 - 2025-05-18

🔶 Overview
The Contested Waters exhibition will take place from April to June 2025, with parallel exhibitions taking place in Taipei and Kaohsiung. The project examines how, in an era of intensifying geopolitical tensions, water is increasingly territorialized, militarized, and capitalized—resulting in states of impassability. Featuring artists from Asia and Europe, the exhibition emerges from long-term field-based artistic collaborations. The two workshops, organized in collaboration with the International Center for Cultural Studies at NYCU, explore how artistic research grounded in years of fieldwork can expand into multispecies inquiries and multi-modal anthropology.

 

 

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◜◜ Kaohsiung ◞◞

In Praise of Floods Online Reading Session + Curatorial Dialogue on Wetness

 

🔹Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
🔹Time: 16:00 – 18:00
🔹Venue:  Special Exhibition Room, 2F, Shoushan National Nature Park Visitor Center丨 Shoushan National Nature Park, No. 301, Wanshou Rd., Gushan Dist., Kaohsiung City + Simultaneous Online Session
🔹Speakers:

．Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh, Curator of Between Waves and Soils, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

．I-Yi Hsieh, Curator of Contested Waters

 

🔗 Registration Link: https://forms.gle/VrREZfXjmqKB3FHu8
📌 Deadline: May 12, 2025

 

 

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◜◜ Taipei ◞◞

[shipbreak_dossier]

 

One of Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s decade-long projects focuses on recording ship-breaking practices at Alang, Gujarat, in India. This time we bring some of the key works created in this project to Hong-Gah Museum, including the epic-length, hand-drawn scroll and a sound-plus-video work created at/about the shipbreaking yard. Parts of the project have in past also led to the exhibitions ‘Shipping & the Shipped’ – showcased at the Bergen Assembly, Art & Research Triennial, 2016, ‘Sea Change’- Colomboscope Biennale, 2019 and ‘The Stonebreakers’ at Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi in 2020 and 'The Edge Of Land' at Art Jameel in Jeddah/Dubai in 2024.

 

🔹 Date: Sunday, May 18, 2025
🔹 Time: 14:00 – 16:00
🔹 Venue: Hong-Gah Museum丨11F., No.166, Daye Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City + Simultaneous Online Session
🔹Speaker: Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Artist, Mumbai

Ranjit Kandalgaonkar lives and works in Mumbai and his art practice currently comprises a lens directed at the urban context of cities and scapes at the mercy of new infrastructures. Most of the projects are research-intensive - their nature varied and seek unique opportunities to rethink and challenge conventional modes of research to offer new modes of dissemination. Some of these long-term projects attempt to unlock historical and contemporary data through placing the work in the context of an unseen social history. Awards & grants include Majlis Visual Arts Fellowship, UDRI Fellowship, Leverhulme Artist Residency, Harvard University SAI Artist Residency, Atelier Prati Print Residency, The Wellcome Trust Seed Funding Award and a Gasworks Residency.

 

🔗 Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kKU2DA412E2FzX317
📌 Deadline: May 16, 2025

 

📌 Note:

－ The lecture will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation available.

 

 

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 Organized by

－ Research Cluster on “Environmental Crises and Multi-species Justice in the 21st Century: Toward Decolonization Beyond the Human”, International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

－ Shoushan National Nature Park Visitor Center

－ Hong-Gah Museum

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