龔卓軍

Born 1966 in Chayi, Taiwan. In 1998, Gong graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the National Taiwan University with his dissertation “Dialectics between Body and Imagination: Nietzsche, Husserl, Merleau Ponty”. After teaching positions at several universities in Taiwan, in 2007, he was appointed associate professor and director of the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory at the Tainan National University of the Arts. From 2009, he also organized the quarterly art magazine Art Critique of Taiwan (ACT), as chief editor and chairman and established it as a public journal. Two years later, in 2011, ACT won the Best Publication Prize of National Publication Award.

Gong is also acclaimed as Chinese translator of writings by Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merlau-Ponty and Carl Gustav Jung into Chinese. Besides his research, Gong is engaging with curatorial activities. In 2013, he curated the exhibition “Are We Working too Much?” at the Eslite Gallery, Taipei. Related to the exhibition, he published two books: Are We Working too Much? I: Workbook, Are We Working too Much? II: Field Narratives. In that same year, he was appointed dean of the College of Visual Arts of the Tainan National University of the Arts. In 2017,he curated the exhibition “Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival” that wins the 16th Taishin Arts Award. In 2018, he curated the exhibition “2018 Taiwan Biennial─Wild Rhizome”. In 2019, he curated the exhibition “YAO-CHI CITY: Taiwanese Paranormal Literature and Contemporary Art”.

In 2021, he curated the exhibition “TAKAO TAIKE SOUTHERN HUE JUINSHYAN LEE”, & “2022 Mattauw Earth triennial Tseng-wen River─A River with A Thousand Name”.

To sum up, “Wild Rhizome” possesses three major characteristics: (1) facing up to historical trauma by giving prominence to the disadvantaged artistic life still haunted by the traumatic memories of colonialism, imperialism, martial law, and capitalism; (2) national identity and cultural traits retreating into the background of artistic creation; and (3) reflecting an artistic attitude of differentiation, hybridization and diversity, as well as a choice of untrammeled, resilient creative techniques. These three characteristics alert us to the sheer exuberance of Taiwan’s contemporary art from individuals to spontaneous collectives, from landscapes to soil, from body to theater, from photography to cinematography, from dwellings to urban spaces, and from grand history to wild narratives. In conclusion, “Wild Rhizome” will transcend the narrow confines of the Han people-centered narrative of Taiwan’s contemporary art history; and, from the aspects of “Wild Mountains and Seas”, “Wild Constellation”, “Wild Images and Alternatine Histories”, “Wild Body” and “Wild Dwelling” it will strongly orientate itself toward rediscovering the ways in which Taiwan’s contemporary art enters into close dialogues with landscapes, tribes, stars, history, audiovisual materials, body, theater, dwellings and cities, thereby making the unique powerful voices from Taiwan heard by the global society.

• 2021

  Chief Curator, “2022 Mattauw Earth triennial Tseng-wen River─A River with A Thousand Name”, Tainan, Taiwan

• 2021

  Co-curator, “TAKAO TAIKE SOUTHERN HUE JUINSHYAN LEE”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• 2021

  Curator, “2021 Traveling Exhibition of Excellent Tainan Artists─The Great Stage of Cosmos and Its Patterns: A Duo Exhibition by Liao Chin Chan & Hsiao-Meng Su”, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, Tainan, Taiwan

• 2019

  Co-curator, “YAO-CHI CITY: Taiwanese Paranormal Literature and Contemporary Art”, C-LAB and National Museum of Taiwan Literature, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2018

  Co-curator, “2018 Taiwan Biennial─Wild Rhizome”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

• 2017

  Curator, “Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival” that wins the 16th Taishin Arts Award, with the team of curators CHEN Po-I, Eric Chen, CHEN Yen-Ing and HUANG Chiung-Ying, Tainan, Taiwan

• 2014

  Co-curator, “The 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition: The Return of Ghosts”, Chew’s Culture Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

• 2013

  Curator, “Are We Working too Much?”, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

• 1998

  National Taiwan University, Philosophy Ph.D.

• 1993

  National Taiwan University, Philosophy M.A.

• 1989

  National Taiwan University, Philosophy B.A.

• 2007-

  Associate Professor / Director, Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts

• 2002-2007

  Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University

• 2000-2002

  Assistant Professor, Center of General Education Curriculum, Tamkang University

• 2017

  Curator of “Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future: 2017 Soulangh International Contemporary Art Festival” that wins the 16th Taishin Arts Award, with the team of curators CHEN Po-I, Eric Chen, CHEN Yen-Ing and HUANG Chiung-Ying, Tainan, Taiwan

• 2011

  Chief Editor of art magazine Art Critique of Taiwan (ACT) that won the 3rd National Publication Award, Best Publication Prize

• 2007

  Author of Dispositif of the Body that won the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Research Award for Junior Investigators

• 2005

  Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, National Sun Yat-sen University

• 2003

  Chinese translation of Gaston Bachelard’s work La poétique de l’espace won the Best Bookman Award of United Daily News

• 2003

  Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning of General Education, The Educational Reform Project for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Advisory Office of the Ministry of Education