EXHIBITION

Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0

Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, 01/24/2014 - 02/02/2014

ABOUT

Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 is a touring exhibition, dealing with the inner turmoils of the "Lovely Island" off China’s mighty mainland’s southeast coast. The exhibition brings thirteen emerging Taiwanese new media artists to major European festivals as well as prominent art spaces in Germany, France, and Russia. After the first stop at this year’s edition of Ars Electronica in Linz, Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 will be on view in early 2014 as official part of the exhibition program of transmediale, festival for art and digital culture in Berlin.

Taiwan can be viewed as a microcosm of a world history that has led to today’s globalized reality. Following successive colonization by the Dutch, the Japanese, and the Chinese, this island nation has thrived on cultural exchange. In Taiwan, opposites coexist: It is simultaneously center and periphery; embodies progress and tradition; represents East and West, what is Chinese both internally and externally. The tension between its well-defined national identity and the still unsettled legal status with respect to mainland China is omnipresent and manifests itself in people’s everyday lives.

The exhibition project Schizophrenia Taiwan 2.0 addresses these contradictions and dualities. The works by the participation artists revolve around the technological progress that is revolutionizing the world by fracturing traditional narrative structures and advancing media to the status of central economic factor. Born between the era of color TV and that of smartphones, and born in a country responsible for a considerable share of the world’s production of high-tech devices, Taiwan’s young media artists are fully aware of the potential as well as the risk of globalization and cybernetics. Their works reflect the challenges that are now facing Taiwan and the entire world.

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