Revolutionary space of architects(Mandarin)
建築師的革命空間(中文) The Architect’s Revolution Community Space invites architects, to discuss how to apply their professional practice on local community projects, highlighting the trends of local involvement in the projects. At the same time, they also share the new thoughts on the involvement in the community, and discuss how to make good use of limited resources. Venue : Online Streaming
Date : 8th May (Saturday) Time : 7 pm – 9 pm Speaker : Huang Jui-mao • Lee Soon Yong • Tew Kok Keong • Wendy Teo Moderator : Teoh Chee Keong |
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Speaker Bio
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Tamkang University (Tamsui, Taiwan). Chair, Board of directors, the Organization of Urban Re-s (OURs), Taiwan. Professor Huang received his PhD in urban and community design from the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. He specializes in practical and research work in architecture, community design, and urban design. He is a veteran activist in spatial issues faced by Taiwanese cities during the process of urban and social development, such as historical conservation, ecological sustainability, the right of access to the city, public art, and social housing. Prof. Huang established the Community Action Team, Tamsui(CATT) in 1993 to practice community/environmental redevelopment. In addition to focusing efforts on various issues of urban development, Professor Huang has played leading roles in local community actions in historical Tamsui (such as environmental education, citizen activism, and local placemaking), while emphasizing community involvement in the process. For years he also has helped the local government in planning and implementing projects of urban preservation and innovation. |
Speaker Bio
Lee SoonYong Lee is the curator of Little Giraffe Story House, a partner of Little Moments Cafe, and Little Friends Studio. He's also the founder of BT Eleven Atelier, a part-time lecturer at New Era University College, a picture book writer, and a storyteller. He graduated from New Era College and National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan) with a BA in Architecture and Interior Design. During his university years, he majored in vernacular architecture and local design. He believes the bodies of design appear to solve problems and to serve the content of space. He has embarked on the journey of picture book creating and storytelling after coming in touch with Yunlin Story House while attending university in the same city. His major works include 走讀雲林,最美麗的地方 The Most Beautiful Place,最美麗的禮物 The Most Wonderful Gift. Upon graduation, he moved to Lijiang, Yunnan Province (China) to work as a designer, engaging in projects related to indegenous habitat of minority groups and their traditional architecture guest houses. In 2015, he returned to Malaysia and gained practical construction experiences as a site supervisor. In the same year, he picked up the baton as the curator of Little Giraffe Story House. As the new leader, he poured in fresh ideas and new energies to the story house and brought up the concept of sustainable operation for the house. In 2016, he resigned from his full-time job to focus on the relocation project of Little Giraffe. His participation in the project traced from the very first proposal, design, construction, to the operation of the story house. |
Speaker Bio
The founder of KAWAN STUDIO , REKAN LIBRARY and MUAR RIVER TIMES. Born in Muar. The Alumni of Chung Hwa High School. Obtained the Architecture Bachelor Degree of Beijing Tsinghua University and Master Degree of UK Nottingham University. Founded Architectural design practice KAWAN STUDIO in 2012. The studio focus on educational building, commercial and residential project. Engaged in Chung Hwa High School multi-functional building project included library, performance hall and exhibition hall. With the idea of starting REKAN, a community library, he started to involved himself into community in 2019. He was then invited to lead the community planning and design project for Kampung Grisek and Belemang which along the Muar Riverside. Founded MUAR RIVER TIMES, a local media platform, during the 2020 pandemic. The media platform was formed by a group of creative and dynamic young talents who live along the Muar River. The platform not only produce the online content but also publish magazine and organize variety projects with the final goal in achieving sustainable development for the communities along Muar riverside. |
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Wendy Teo is a UK ARB/RIBA Chartered Architect, Curator, Researcher and Tutor that seeing embedding social-culture dialogue in forming architecture as her ultimate pursuit. Across her architectural career, Wendy Teo's projects were endorsed by a number of international awards such as Holcim Sustainable Next Generation Award (First Prize), Archiprix, Threadneedle Prize et cetera. Her projects was exhibited across UK, France, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey and Taiwan. One of the notable exhibition is 2013/14 Archilab 'Naturalising Architecture' exhibition curated by Pompidou Center director Frédéric Migayrou and FRAC Orlean Director Marie-Ange Brayer. Her works has been translated into varied medium and scale throughout her commitment with Foster and Partners, Bartlett UCL, Divooe Zein Atelier, Borneo Laboratory, Taiwan Architect Magazine, CanopyU and a number of workshops. In 2016, Wendy Teo founded the award winning Borneo Laboratory @ Borneo Art Collective to document tangible and intangible cultural heritage of Borneo. The group executed a number of impact driven art projects and their projects were featured in UK, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. In 2017, she founded her own practice Wendy Teo Atelier based in Borneo and operating in cross disciplinary scale. |
Moderator Bio
Teoh is an Assistant Professor and Head of School at School of Architecture & Built Environment. He obtained his Master of Architecture from CYCU, Taiwan in 2005. He specializes in Building Conservation and involved in several notable historical building restorations works in Malaysia and Taiwan, including Taiping Market, Taiping Shuntak Ancestral Hall, Taichung Railway Station, National Monument- Taipei Guest House etc. His teaching and research focus on the areas of cooperative learning and community engagement. Since 2009, he has conducted several design and build community projects, such as Kuala Sepetang ‘Kaktao46’ Community Library, Sungai Buloh Leprosy Story Gallery, Garden Library at Kebun Komunity Rumah Pangsa AU2 etc. He has contributed more than 200+ articles for various media including Sin Chew Daily, MalaysiaKini, Asiaweek, Architecture Malaysia etc on architecture and cultural conservation. |
Mirage : Disused Public Property in KL (Mandarin )
吉隆坡蚊子館拍摄计划(中文) This is the concluding dialogue of the ‘Topography of Mirror Cities’. The Chief Curator Sandy Hsiu-Chih Lo and the artist 姚瑞中will have and in-depth dialogues and exchanges with the participating artists. Venue : Online Streaming
Date : 30th May (Sunday) Time : 7 pm – 9 pm Speakers : Sandy Hsiu-Chih Lo • Yao Jui-Chung Sharing : Project Participants Moderator : Yeoh Lian Heng |
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Speaker Bio
Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo is an independent curator, art critic, art historian, film critic and documentary filmmaker. She has been lecturing in contemporary art and film studies at several universities, and lectures at Department of Architecture, Tamkang University currently. Her research interests are curatorial practice, curating as a form of social practice and critical thinking; film studies, cinematic essay; gender politics; urban studies, space research. Current Art and Research Projects: Topography of Mirror Cities in Asian cities (2015-ongoing), as curator. |
Sandy Hsiu-chih
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Yao Jui-Chung
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Speaker Bio
Yao Jui-Chung was born in 1969. Lives and works in Taipei. He graduated from The National Institute of The Arts (Taipei National University of the Arts) with a degree in Art Theory. His works has been widely exhibited in numerous international exhibitions. In 1997, he represented Taiwan in “Facing Faces-Taiwan” at the Venice Biennale. After that, he took part in the International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama (2005), APT6 (2009), Taipei biennial (2010), Shanghai Biennale(2012), Beijing Photo Biennale(2013), Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale(2014), Venice Architecture Biennale, Media City Seoul Biennale(2014), Asia Triennial Manchester (2014), Asia Biennale(2015) and Sydney Biennale(2016). Yao is the winner of The Multitude Art Prize in 2013 and 2014 Asia pacific Art Prize. We can also find him widely involved in the fields of theatre and films. |
Speaker Bio
Po Han Huang is born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1992. He graduated from School of Visual Arts majoring in MFA Photography, Video and Related Media. Huang participated in Mirage: Disused Public Property in Taiwan, led by Jui-Chung Yao, in 2014 and 2016 consecutively. Huang uses not only photography, but also includes video and installation to make works. Huang’s works mainly focused on the correlation between document and memory and on the contradictory between rational information and emotional feelings. Huang is now preparing for alternative space, focusing on promoting lens-based artworks and emerging international artists, in Seoul with SVA alumna. |
Huang Po Han
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Lai Hsiao-ying
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Speaker Bio
Born in 1994, Lai Hsiao-ying is a native of Kaohsiung. She graduated from Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, and is currently an independent curator and cultural and art co-op activist, specializing in critical theory and intercultural communication. She is especially concerned with visualization of knowledge production and the spatial issues of transitional justice. Starting in 2018, Lai has participated in the management and operation of Scutoid Coop and Co-Art Co-Op, and jointly established the alternative space, Henan 8, focusing on exhibition technology and social practices of art. She also advocates the idea of providing young art and cultural professionals systematic social protection, supports for economic autonomy, and interdisciplinary and friendly creative hotbeds, through sharing and co-making, and strives for the establishment of a mutually benefiting network of art and culture for Kaohsiung. More recently, she has planned the bilingual symposiums “Retourner à La Vie: L’engagement Artistique et Son Intensité” and “Behind the Exhibitions,” and curated exhibitions Simutopia 42 and one of collateral events of 2020 Taiwan Biennial Technological Metamorphosis. |
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Tsai Shih Hsiang was born in Kaohsiung in 1995 and lives in Taipei currently. He graduated from The Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Art of Taipei National University of the Arts in 2020. His works mainly explores the fragmented narratives of daily life in contemporary society and as well as the wandering, swinging and dialectics involving the margin and the center. He is used to keeping himself in a state of movement. He uses his images of mumbling and roughness to outline the people, events, times, places, and objects surrounding himself, and at the same time, tries to fill in what he believes to be vacancy with overflowing. He also regards curation as another path of artistic practice, as well as a supplement to artist creation. He has been trying to face relatively complex situations and issues with a broader and flexible state of collaboration. |
Tsai Shih Hsiang
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Moderator Bio
Yeoh Lian Heng was born in 1978. In 2004 he founded the art space and collective Lostgen’s comtemporary art space with artist peers, pursuing eclectic expression in the exploration of art’s role in society. In his projects Yeoh utilizes art towards increasing awareness and understanding of various social issues such as the loss of cultural heritage through the Pudu and Petaling Street community art projects. Yeoh has also represented Lostgens at Busan Biennale in 2012 and at the Jakarta Biennale in 2013.
Yeoh Lian Heng was born in 1978. In 2004 he founded the art space and collective Lostgen’s comtemporary art space with artist peers, pursuing eclectic expression in the exploration of art’s role in society. In his projects Yeoh utilizes art towards increasing awareness and understanding of various social issues such as the loss of cultural heritage through the Pudu and Petaling Street community art projects. Yeoh has also represented Lostgens at Busan Biennale in 2012 and at the Jakarta Biennale in 2013.