28 Mar 2019, 6:00-7:30pm
Venue: Dambaul #18, 3rd Floor, Sothearos Blvd (above Scuba Nation, near Wat Ounalom) Map: https://goo.gl/KwrDKX

Herbal Urbanism
by Manray Hsu
In English with Khmer translation

Using a diversity of formats ranging from exhibition, performance, screening,conference, publication, research and fieldwork, the Herbal Urbanism project explores new relationships between humans and nature in the era of Anthropocene. The presumption is that the unitary conception of nature in modern sciences should be ceded for a multiplicity of cosmos, and that a cosmopolitics of multi-naturalism shall be practiced to explore the new possible relationships between humans and nature. Old and new, existing and experimental views of
cosmos will be brought into the realm of art production, debate and practice.

About the speaker

Manray Hsu is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. A main focus of his work is on politics of mobility, borders of different forms and urban conditions in the age of globalisation, flows of capital, and activism-related art.His recent research includes interdisciplinary art practices related to environmental issues, multi-species interactions in urban and rural scenarios, with a special interest in viewing the Anthropocene in the context of contemporary philosophy and ancient Chinese thinking.

​Manray has served as juror for Venice Biennale (2001), Istanbul Biennial (2001),Hermes Art Award for Korean Contemporary Art (2007), Hugo Boss Asian Art Award (2012). Among various exhibitions, Manray has curated 2000 Taipei Biennial (with Jerome Sans);“

How Big Is the World?” (2002, OK Center for Contemporary Art,Linz); “Wayward Economy” (2004, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei); “Wrong(ed) Attitudes: Tsui Kuangyu and Su Huiyu” (2006, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin); “Naked Life” (2006, MOCA Taipei); Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (with Gerardo Mosquera);“Future Relics” (2007, co-organized with Hu Fang, Documenta 12 Magazine); 2008 Taipei Biennial (with Vasif Kortun); Biennale Cuvee in 2009 (OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz); Forum Biennial of T aiwanese Contemporary Art in 2010 (Taipei
​Contemporary Art Centre); "The South: an Art of Asking and Listening" (2017, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts); "Autosrada Biennale: The Future of Borders" (2017, Prizren, Kosovo); “Herbal Urbanism: An artistic project on cosmopolitics” (2018, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei).