Media coverage
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Media coverage
Title TAIPEI BIENNIAL Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Art in America Media type Print Country/Territory United States Date 01/03/2019 Description “Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem,” the eleventh Taipei Biennial, promotes an expansive notion of ecology that encompasses genetically engineered and cybernetic entities and an art world motivated by social activism and institutional critique. The show’s forty-one participants, hailing from nineteen countries, include Taiwanese and international artists as well various scientific researchers, policy advocates, documentarians, and public educators. Curators Mali Wu, head of the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art at National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan, and Francesco Manacorda, artistic director of the V-A-C Foundation in Venice, thus mix studio-based art with films, television segments, lectures, and symposia. Their goal, as stated on the biennial’s website and in various interviews, is to integrate artistic and civic forms of cultural production. In doing so, they turned the museum into an ecosystem of ecosystems and encouraged viewers to treat ecological awareness as “a consistent and common way of thinking.” Producer/Author Peter Kalb URL https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/taipei-biennial-62644/ Persons Lucy Davis