Title｜The Local South: My Recent Exhibitions And Concerns

Speaker｜Manray HSU, Independent curator

Date｜May 20 (Friday), 13:30-15:30

(This is part of Taiwan Contemporary Art course)

link: https://meet.google.com/eim-hvrz-yjm

Manray Hsu is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. He is co-founder and director (2010-2012) of Taipei Contemporary Art Center, editor-in-chief of ArtCo Magazine Mainland China edition (2013-2014), and teaches in art academies in Taiwan and abroad.

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), etc. Selected exhibitions include: 2000 Taipei Biennial (with Jerome Sans), Naked Life (2006, MOCA Taipei), Liverpool Biennial in 2006 (with Gerardo Mosquera), 2008 Taipei Biennial (with Vasif Kortun), Biennale Cuvee in 2009 (the OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz), first edition of Autostrada Biennale (2017), “The South- An Art of Asking and Listening” (2017, Kaohsiung Museum of Arts), “Herbal Urbanism: An artistic project on cosmopolitics” (2018, Hong Gah Museum, Taipei); “When Kacalisian culture meets the vertical city: Greater Sandimen Contemporary Art” (2019, Taiwan Aboriginal Culture Park, Pingtung); "Crossing the Tuniu Ditch - Reactivating Tribal Deities, the Name Rectification of Makatao" (2020, Assembly of Communities: MIX, MOCA Taipei); "Futurist Wave: Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen" (2020, Pingtung Museum of Art), “Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art- Between Earth and Sky: Indigenous Contemporary Art from Taiwan” (2021, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art), “Margins Of The City As Method” (2021, Hsinchu City Art Gallery and Hsinchu 241 Art Gallery), “Distances Between us and the future” (2021, Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park) etc.

A main focus is on politics of mobility, borders of different forms and urban conditions in the age of globalisation, flows of capital, and activism-related art. 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 from the perspective of Chinese Daoist philosophy.