Typhoon still Drifts.....

Dave Chang was giving the speech

Today is the second day the weather is effected by the typhoon. So we better stay inside !
But the speech giver arrived in the hotel very early, we started the conference about 10 in the morning.
The issue is We are also Taiwanese I : Immigrant Worker. We invited Dave Chang, chair of Migrant International Taiwan Chapter to talk about life of immigrant workers.

He wrote some questions :

1 Migration?
2 Cause of migration?
3 Effect of migration for individual, family and society ?
4 Host country effect?
5 Culture, people and belief?
6 The need to arouse, organize, and mobilize ?
7 The need to solidarity works ?
8 Internationalism ?

After lunch, there were also a workshop presentation.
The speaker is Manray Hsu who is the co-curator of Taipei Biennial.
He brought some betel nuts for the participants to try another kind of Taiwan culture.
While talking about Taipei biennial , he also told the connections of some places we've visited before,
let the participants know Taipei better.


Manray Hsu talked about betel nuts.

In the evening,after dinner, every participants got the chance to show their works,
we had a presentation time till 10:30.

Typhoon Drifts!

Because of the typhoon, we couldn't go any where, and the activities were called canceled yesterday.
But after the faculty members' meeting, they found out the solution, move all the activities in the hotel.
So in the evening, fortunately , we still could have Mr. Vasif Kortun here to talk about Taipei Biennial and tell
something beneath the exhibition. It was a interesting speech.

The lecture of Vasif Kortun.

Taipei Biennial

In the morning, we went to Taipei Art Park, which is next to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum for
a workshop presentation of a participating artist of Taipei Biennial called Yang Jun.



Yang Jun is a Chinese artist who emigrated with his family from China to Austria at the age of 4.
His works include videos, performances and installations. This time he's talking about what you think a
contemporary art center is. He brought some new points of view to the audiences.

The second part of today, was Taipei Biennial Forums I .
In the forum, they have invited the curator and the artists of the section A World Where Many World fit
to talk about their works and concept.
Through the speeches, we have know more about different kind of cultures, globalization ,and anti-globalization.

Opening of Taipei Drift

After few days of touring Taipei ,we believe every artist having a general idea of Taipei city. There is an opening of the Creative Forum of Taipei Drift taken place at TAV. This opening not only gave a brief introduction of Taipei drift but also try to regroup artists around the world by their own interest.

Group list:

1)Dacchi DangNuutti KoskinenAgi ChenVictor TakáčAna Schomburg

2)Dror DaumGili AvissarMichal ErezLee,In-SungCarmen LenhartKat Corbet

3)Cathy DickersonJulia Charlotte Richter Josef BaresSusan OlijCatherine Meier

4)Francis BurgerArthur ZerktouniLinda MikolaskovaAnna KatariinaStephanie Seet YingAymeric Laruido

5)Heidi LampeniusAna Esteve ReigLuo,JrShinFabian SaptouwTashinga Matindike

6)Nikolas ChasserWong Lip-ChinAleš ČermákDominik WlodarekHsu,Yin-LingPei-Hsuan, WangChen,Hao-Yiuo

Under lots of discussion ,every artist find their group member and try to make their projects possible. Everyone start to exchange their concepts of the project. Some of them take MRT having a tour in Taipei, and the other found their own way to experience Taipei. Whatever they do, they are ready for drifting.

At night, there is a opening of 2008 Taipei Biennial at TFAM. Although the rain is so heavy,

the Taipei Biennial still attracts lots of audiences. Even the president and the city mayor came to the museum and enjoy this Biennial.

One Day Tour in Taipei

Today is the third day of Taipei Drift workshop.
After having a little tour yesterday, participants have known Taipei better.
And then today is the day to see a different side of Taipei.
The tour began at 9:30 in the morning, and the first stop is Taipei 101,then, Si-Si Nan Cun.
Everybody was so excited when they saw Taipei 101, the highest building in the world.


Inside Taipei 101

After Taipei 101, we continued our touring to the next stop Si-Si Nan Cun,
which was a place for the Army "temporary stay" but then became where they lived rest of their lives.


Then, we visited Huashan culture park, which is supposed to be a space for artists, exhibitions, and art activities.


We also took a tour to Treasure Hill and Lo-Sheng Sanatorium.

Inside Lo-Shang Sanatorium.

And then finished the tour at Wen-Meng House.

Speech in Wen Meng House.

Let's begin form TNUA!

The second day in Taipei, let's begin form visiting Taipei National University of the Arts. We not only show different departments of TNUA(included Finearts Department, Center for Art and Technology,Performing Arts Center and Kuandu Museum) and also introdut this Workshop and Taipei City. We try to give an unsophisticated conception for Taipei city and prepare for the coming activities.

Today ends with a fruitful Welcome Party. Every guest and visitor from the world enjoy this tradition feast in the Underground Museum. Tomorrow, we will bound for downtown and visit more Taipei urban heterogeneous sites.

Arrivals!

Today is the day participants arrive.
From 6:30 am to 22:25, there were 10 arrivals from all over the world.
Everyone can have some free time after they have checked in.
So today is the day they started exploring and discovering Taipei.
Then in next ten days, they will create their drift on their own way basic on the impressions of Taipei.
We are all looking forward to it!
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