Category: News

Topic: “What Is Drawn in Spain? A Course along Spanish Illustrations”
Presenter: Inmaculada Corcho, director and curator of ABC Art Museum in Spain
Commentator: Wu Tung-lung, cultural observer, best-selling author, and visual designer
Time: 2018/08/18 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
Place: Multifunctional Arts and Culture Hall in SPOT-Taipei Film House (No. 18, Sec. 2, Zhongshan N. Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei City)

At present, Museo ABC in Spain is the only museum with collections of Spanish illustrations, including excellent contemporary works of Spain of the recent decades and works of current outstanding artists. Museo ABC possesses more than 150,000 pieces of illustrations which have been collected since 1891. The role of the museum is not merely a work conserver but also a work promoter, allowing more people to understand the contemporary Spanish illustrations. Since its official inauguration in 2010, Museo ABC has been exhibiting in its best venue works of contemporary Spanish illustrators, such as Ana Juan, Mariscal, Paco Roca, Javier Zabala, Javier Olivares, Pep Carrió, Isidro Ferrer, Fernando Vicente, Eva Vázquez, Salvador Larroca, Pepe Larraz, Max, Pablo Amargo, and others. In this lecture, there will be a review of the Spanish illustrators’ performances in different creative movements in terms of graphic novels, comics, children’s picture books, design, advertising, street art, and animation.

Date: 2018/08/04 (Sat.) 10:30-17:30
Place: National Taiwan Museum–Nanmen Park, The White Palace (No. 1, Sec. 1, Nanchang Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City)

Through the dialogue between the Chinese writer Chan Koon-chung and the movie director Hou Chi-jan about “The Significance of Literature and Image Creations to the Society (with Hidden Attempts)”, you will listen how do the writer and the director use words and images to portray the social realities and the inner ideals.

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Time: 14:10-16:00
Topic: The “Backstage” Life of the Female Immigrants from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan”
Moderator:
Chen Ru-jane, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Presenters:
Lan Pei-chia, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Sociology of National Taiwan University
Yolanda Yu, organizer of the Migrant Worker Poetry Competition in Singapore
Su Mei-zhi, Hong Kong media worker and writer

Moderated by Chen Ru-jane, senior lecturer of the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lan Pei-chia, the Distinguished Professor of the Department of Sociology of National Taiwan University, Yolanda Yu, the organizer of Singapore Migrant Worker Poetry Competition, and Su Mei-zhi, Hong Kong media worker and writer, are invited to depict the life texture of female immigrant workers.

<Session 3> English lecture without interpreter
Time: 16:10-17:30
Topic: Observations of the Foreign Land by Foreigners
Presenters:
Shivaji Das, organizer of Migrant Worker Poetry Competition in Singapore and Malaysia
Moderator: Chen Ru-jane, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The lecture will be conducted in English. Chen Ru-jane and Shivaji Das, the organizer of Migrant Worker Poetry Competition in Singapore and Malaysia, are both “immigrant workers” who “live in foreign land”. They will be sharing their “Observation of the Foreign Land by Foreigners” in the forum.

Topic: Contemporary Photography in Spain
Presenter: Alejandro Castellote, Spanish independent curator
Moderator: Shen Chao-Liang, photographer and Adjunct Associate Professor of National Taiwan University of Arts
Time: 2018/06/13 (Wed.) 19:00
Place: National Taiwan Museum–Nanmen Park, The White Palace (No. 1, Sec. 1, Nanchang Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City)

Alejandro Castellote is the co-founder of PHoto ESPAÑA, as well as an independent curator, professor, and critic, who has been devoted in the study of contemporary photography in Europe, Central and South America, and Asia. He pointed out that photography in Spain in the XXI Century has undergone significant changes. Photographers of the new generation have begun using visual arts, video, and installation arts, or even integrated visual and audiovisual materials from the Internet. They also travel frequently, so the issues that they got in touch with were not limited to the local ones. As indicated by Alejandro Castellote, such new creative characters have been reflected in international exhibitions and more experimental works, in particular, the prominent photography collections. The teamwork between photographers, editors, and graphic designers has created big cross-field impacts. The photographer Shen Chao-Liang will unfold a brilliant dialogue with Alejandro Castellote in the lecture.