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Art Advances
The videos document the support offered by) grants for the Art Advances category, the implementation process for each project, and their interpretation of the “multi-art form” concept. This category supports projects that connect different fields or show experimental or organic characteristics during the implementation or performance.
Case Profile of Ecological Theater Incubation Project: The Breath and Pulse of Fangyuan Tidal Flats by Humanity Theatre

In this incubation project for ecological theater, Humanity Theatre invited ecology scholars and a theater technical crew to jointly perform an ecological field investigation on Taiwan's largest tidal flats with the richest ecodiversity, Fangyuan Tidal Flats. The goal was to explore the theatricality, physicality, and narrativity of Fangyuan's mud flats. They joined hands with local community organizations to hold theater workshops and invited local residents to participate, creating a script through collective improvisation and finally putting on a show of their progress at the tidal flats.

This project delves into "how to combine ecological experiences and ecological theater", focusing on the relationship between "people" and the "environment" to serve as preliminary preparation for a complete performance in the future. It also attempts to explore the meaning of "diverse art" by bringing new breakthroughs and creative ideas through artistic production.

2025.05.21
Case Profile of “2022 DQ Creative Program by Our Theatre”

For many years, Our Theatre has been actively engaged in building up creative resources through the Farm of Plays project and developing talent through the actors’ experimental school. The DQ Creative Program was held for the first time in 2022. Two creators under the age of 30 in different creative fields were selected, and Our Theatre provided them with rehearsal space, funding, and creative mentors (a creative consultant, a joint creator, and an art administrator), thereby serving as an incubator for young creators’ initial conceptual experiments and creations! Yung-Chen Yeh and Yi-Ching Chang were selected for this program, and after eight months of development, they held two public performances in the Sinkagitso theatre in February 2023 to showcase the tangible results of their creative concepts.
 

2024.02.21
Case Profile of “Tengu Is Coming” by Sheng Ping Puppet Troupe”

The Sheng Ping Puppet Troupe is a troupe that is centered around blending the traditional and the innovative and diverse, thereby promoting the elevation and legacy of traditional puppet show culture. The production of “Tengu Is Coming” is based on the legend of the mysterious Tengu. The puppet troupe collaborated with professional dancers and Tai-Jih Percussion Group, a local percussion group in Yunlin, to transcend the classical framework of puppet show performances on stage. Instead, this production combines the elements of sounds, bodily movements, and traditional culture to create sparks where tradition meets modernity. By presenting classic dramatic performances in new ways, the audience can be brought into a brand-new and fantastic puppet journey!

2024.01.17
Case Profile of “The Rat, Y2K x Jun-Yu Chen–2023”

The Rat is a collaborative project between the art group Y2K and the performance artist Jun-Yu Chen. It is a joint bio-hybrid creation, in which the artistic project was ultimately presented in the form of a performance. The performer’s vital signs are tracked to influence physiological changes, and through this the conflicts between the natural body and numerical data as well as between perception and expression are explored. The focus of the performance is not just on the performer himself, it also examines how data from the human body can be quantified and interpreted. How does the performance manifest this monitored life form? Are new ways of understanding a performance opened up when a hybrid installation is transformed into a performance? This project once again displaces performances and installation art, creating a debate that allows the performance artist and the hybrid artist to struggle against each other for control of the body’s functions.
 

2023.12.29
Platform for Arts Project
Here is documented the support offered by grants for the Arts Environment and Development category. This professional service platforms project is rooted in long-term planning. It describes the art scenes nurtured by the professional artistic and cultural community of every platform.
Case Profile of Blend - 2023 Ensemble Hall Jazz Music Series

Ensemble Hall is Yunlin County Shine Arts Foundation's chief venue for events. It is a platform that fosters mutual stimulation and respect among performers and audience members, as to enable two-way listening and deeper conversations. The Jazz Music Series has been implemented for two years. Centered on instrumental music, the project invites jazz pianists to serve as each concert's curator. A number of relevant educational activities are derived therefrom, such as lectures, workshops, artist residencies, and composition commissions.
 

2024.04.24
Case Profile of Interdisciplinary Experimentation Collaborative Platform - Community Co-Creation Artistic and Cultural Sustainable Three-Year Project

The Interdisciplinary Experimentation Collaborative Platform of Nan-Yi Musical Theater is based in Fengshan, Kaohsiung. It offers support for the exchange, practice, creation, and performance/exhibition organization of artists of all sorts. A total of 21 interdisciplinary pieces have been created across these four years. The platform also acts as a matchmaker for arts professionals to enter communities and to link different local industries, fostering change in people's community life and culture. It has also aided artists to launch their personal brand and enhance recognition through creative output and creativity. The result is an artistic and cultural ecosystem that operates locally and develops sustainably, formed between industry, artists, the people, and the environment.
 

2024.02.07
Case Profile of Goodunderground Art Space's Contemporary Photography Professional Service Platform 3rd Year Operational Project

Founded in 2016, Goodunderground Art Space serves as a platform for local contemporary artistic experimentation, exchange, and learning. They promote photography art and bring professional photography resources to Hualien. This project expands on the Contemporary Photography Professional Service Platform Operational Project from two years ago. They organize exhibitions by photographers/artists, exhibitions of photography books, international artist residencies, workshops, lectures, weekend art lessons, creative symposiums, and group tours, among other activities. Continuing the focus on photography, they seek artists and professionals who use photography as a chief method for contemporary art production. The aim is to uphold photography professionalism while emphasizing observation and promotion of contemporary art, serving as a way for the general public to become educated in photography/art.

2023.11.24
Case Profile of 2022 2nd Thinkers' Partner Project

Thinkers' Studio is an independent and private artistic and cultural platform in Taiwan. It has continuously organized the Thinkers' Partner Project to enable artists to have enough time and venues for discussion, attempting, learning, assimilation, and renewed creation in the preliminary creative stage. Through close and highly-flexible creative coaching, artists and collectives are provided with consulting and guidance in the preliminary creative stage, so they don't have to define their backdrop and consolidate their strategy alone in such period. They connect Taiwanese and foreign cultural and artistic professionals and organizations on behalf of project partners, accumulating a larger pool of soft resources and helping preliminary artistic attempts to develop into complete pieces. The project serves to build a bridge with the performing arts industry.
 

2023.09.27
Visual Arts Curating
To document and present footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial experience of the exhibitions supported by NCAF's curatorial grants.
2021 Recording: Amongst the Silence

This video documents the making of Amongst the Silence, an exhibition curated by curators Nicole Yi-Hsin Lai and Zong-Yuan Tien and supported by NCAF's Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial practice.

Amongst the Silence seeks to take a positive approach to "silence" and its status in contemporary society and culture. Delving into the question from the perspectives of experience in everyday life and in the public sphere, it ponders and explores discursive formation in these dimensions, as well as the cracks in such discourse, in other words, silence. It also examines how contemporary art can create possibilities of thinking, exploration, construction, and re-imagination through different art forms and creative methods, and in doing so, generate meta-political language and structures to produce knowledge and strategies of resistance, as well as stimulate reflexive thinking.
 

2024.09.26
2021 Recording: The Oceans and the Interpreters

This video documents the making of The Oceans and the Interpreters, an exhibition curated by curators Takamori Nobuo and supported by NCAF's Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial practice.

 

2024.09.12
2021 Recording: Digital Corporeality

This video documents the making of Digital Corporeality, an exhibition curated by curator I-Wen Chang and supported by NCAF's Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial practice.

As a performance critic and dance expert, the curator has traveled to major art festivals around the world over many years to do research on corporeality, choreography, performativity, digital art, technological art, and live art. This exhibition, Digital Corporeality, is based on her research and proposes a somaesthetic that integrates the viewpoints of technological art. Initially inspired by The Rite of Spring, different versions of The Rite of Spring were displayed at the entrance to explore the four aspects of digital corporeality: "Part 1: Future Body through Critical Lens", "Part 2: Corporeality, Materiality, and the Other", "Part 3: Inter-passivity", and "Part 4: AI, Big Data, and Digital Bodies", followed by "Epilogue: AI and Future Choreographies in the 21st Century", which echoes the performance documentation video series of The Rite of Spring at the beginning. From non-human theaters to an AI-generated choreography to connect with spirits, the exhibition contemplates possibilities of digital corporeality from multiple dimensions and offers a basis for diverse theories and exploration of digital corporeal experimentation, a hotly discussed topic at present.
 

2022.09.26
2021 Recording: When Islands Dream

This video documents the collaboration between NCAF and the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei), in support of the exhibition project by curator Yu-Ting Hsieh, recipient of the Curator's Incubator Program @ Museums. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial practice of When Islands Dream.

When Islands Dream combines modern observations and analyses of dreams by recent trauma studies with the Dreaming Ceremony tradition of the Matsu Islands. In this project, artists play the role of dreamers and dream on behalf of Matsu to gather lost dreams and simultaneously summon visions of the future. This exhibition utilizes multiple forms such as contemporary visual art, audio recording, Butoh, and writing and photography workshops to unearth subconscious memories and feelings, project and overlay thoughts on the present and future by Matsu residents, and build a local space-time archive that belongs to Matsu.
 

2022.09.12
2021 Recording: Specific Containers-Unity & Separation of Boundary

This video documents the collaboration between NCAF and Yo-Chang Art Museum in support of the exhibition project by curator Chi Chien, recipient of the Curator's Incubator Program @ Museums. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial experience of Specific Containers-Unity & Separation of Boundary.

The participants of the exhibition project Specific Containers-Unity & Separation of Boundary include five artists—Huang Jung-Chih, Chou Yu-Cheng, Chiu Chen-Hung, Hsu Chia-Wei, and Chi Chien, all of whom are active in the contemporary arts scene and have a wealth of creative experience, while their art involves different models of practice. This exhibition focuses on the special features of the art/residential spaces of Yo-Chang Art Museum. Through research on the participating artists' creations, collaborative projects, and a historical review of relevant literature, it is attempted to organize the stylistic features of the artists and point out the possibilities of re-disciplinarization of artistic practice in the cross-disciplinary atmosphere of contemporary art.
 

2022.03.31
2021 Recording: Housing Things: Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space

This video documents the collaboration between NCAF and Yo-Chang Art Museum in support of the exhibition project by curator Tsou Ting, recipient of the Curator's Incubator Program @ Museum. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial experience of Housing Things: Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space.

In order to discuss how exhibitions produce relationships and how art can be brought to the public, Housing Things: Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space takes as its exhibition spaces the 9 Art Space and the NTUA Art Village located on the north side of National Taiwan University of Arts (NTUA), which are now part of the Yo-Chang Art Museum. In face of this special institutional environment, how do the artistic activities that take place here today echo the local history of yesteryear and outline the spatial imagination of tomorrow? When the viewer steps into the buildings that were once somebody's home, as if they were viewing a house or visiting a friend—an experience reflective of "domesticity", this opens up the curatorial context of Housing Things: Compilations, Gatherings, and Practices Shared in An Art Space.
 

2022.03.31
2021 Recording: Just What is it That Makes Today's Image So Different, so Appealing?

This video documents the collaboration between NCAF and Hong-Gah Museum in support of the exhibition project Just What is it That Makes Today's Image So Different, So Appealing? by curator Chen Wei-Lun, recipient of the Curator's Incubator Program @ Museums. It presents footage and interviews from the art venue, execution process, and curatorial experience of the exhibition.

The curatorial project Just What is it That Makes Today's Images So Different, So Appealing? focuses on the question of how images shape our social landscape through the medium of technology and attempts to deconstruct the meaning of images through placement of the works. The title of the exhibition consists of the rewording of a Pop Art title, and the role it played in advancing aesthetic discourse in art history is used as a commentary of this exhibition. The seven artists—Wang Ya-Hui, Huang Hai-Hsin, Chang Hui-Hsin, Chuang Pei-Xin, Tsai Tsung-Hsun, Yin Guan-Hong, and Hsieh Yu-Cheng, with their different creative contexts and the distinctive forms of their work, set aside the framework of media classification and deliberately blur the differences between light, image, and screen on the basis of medium. From the process of re-aestheticizing the image medium in contemporary art, the exhibition redefines and advances the discursive framework of the image in contemporary art. On the premise that deconstruction and construction go hand in hand, it proposes an alternative aesthetic view of images, different from narrative images.
 

2022.03.31
Inclusive Arts
To document the projects undertaken by art groups and creators supported by NCAF's Inclusive Arts Project, aiming to enhance arts participation and social care.
Case Profile of "Here I Am, at This Moment. PART II—Art Workshops for Elders"

Chun-Luan Yang, who initiated the project, is a nurse with a background in art therapy and art practice. In this project, she engaged with elderly people with dementia and their caregivers at nursing homes. Through creative processes in workshops on graffiti, sculpture, and collective collaboration work, elderly people became more able to profoundly express and interpret their memories. On the other hand, through art, caregivers could also get to know the elderly people under their care better, thus extending more meaning to care provision.

2024.09.26
Case Profile of "The Gift of Light in a Long Night—Art Therapy Workshops for the Elderly and Caregivers at Nursing Institutions"

Project initiator, Jung-Hsuan Wang and art therapists from ARTogether focused on issues pertaining to mental healthcare for the elderly and their caregivers. For two years, they had kept company with many elderly people. Nursing institutions and family caregivers, and members of the public at long-term care centers took the opportunity to gather for art creations and interactions, reconnecting care relationship in the form of artistic conversation.

2021.08.31
Case Profile of "Floating Island—Xincen Community Art Connection Project"

The Shiner Education Foundation, which aims to develop an inclusive theater for the elderly, invited two artist groups to the Xincen community in Chiayi County to interact with local residents through artistic integration and mutual communication. Through images and participation in on-site performance art, along with explorations and interpretations of experience in the humanities and natural landscapes, various social groups could use the full range of physical senses to co-create a common vision for life.

2021.08.03
Case Profile of "Listening to Aged Souls—The Cultivation Project of Soundwalking"

Wan-Chien Cheng’s “Listening to Aged Souls—The Cultivation Project of Soundwalking” hoped to bring the power of music and listening to the elderly. Participants started from humming tunes and listening to sounds, and then took further steps to connect their memories with the environment. By exploring their memories, they shared their personal emotions with each other and engaged in collaborative creative work to produce a precious sound map of a place.

2021.02.03
Case Profile of "Wholistic Life" (Introduction)

Spring Wind Art Theatre’s “Wholistic Life” project guided elderly people to fill up vacuums in their lives by sharing and practicing art, mainly in the form of music and drama, so as to create new value for life in their middle and old ages. At the end of January 2019, the participants held a formal public performance. The venue was filled to its capacity of over a hundred people, which showed the intensity of the emotional contagion created by these amateur actors.

2020.11.13
Case Profile of "Make Me Gorgeous One More Time"

Spring Wind Art Theatre’s “Make Me Gorgeous One More Time” held workshops using self-exploration and awareness, the body, music, occupational therapy, scene creation, and handmade art as the main mediums to encourage students to tell stories of their lives. Subsequently, students were divided into groups to present outcomes of their works in storytelling, curating, playacting, singing, and other forms of presentation. The exercise aimed to make up for the regrets and vacuums in their life experiences through sharing and creative activities.

2020.09.18
Case Profile of "Wholistic Life" (Interview)

Spring Wind Art Theatre’s “Wholistic Life” project guided elderly people to fill up vacuums in their lives by sharing and practicing art, mainly in the form of music and drama, so as to create new value for life in their middle and old ages. At the end of January 2019, the participants held a formal public performance. The venue was filled to its capacity of over a hundred people, which showed the intensity of the emotional contagion created by these amateur actors.

2020.09.03
Case Profile of "Invisible Salt X Touchable Fields" (Interview)

Tsai-Shan Tsui’s “Invisible Salt X Touchable Fields” was an exchange project that connected two places by performances and their production processes. The project featured performance tours derived from everyday labors in Xincen, Chiayi, and costumes handmade by designers in Yancheng, Kaohsiung. The tours connected two locations, particularly local communities with a history of salt ponds. Through matching by artists, the project gave participating elders unforgettable memories for life.

2019.12.26
Case Profile of "A Duet with You: Dancing with the Elderly Project" (Interview)

Horse Dance Theater’s A Duet with You hoped to elicit individuality that was rarely known via exploration and understanding of the body. Duet dance is one such way to learn how to communicate with another individual or deepen mutual understanding. The workshop touched on the theme of inclusion through duet dances of the elderly, caregivers, and seed teachers, thus spreading the concept and fun of elderly dancing to various social groups.

2019.12.26
Case Profile of "Here I Am, at This Moment—An Art Workshop Program Designed for Dementia Elders"

Chun-Luan Yang, who initiated the project, is a nurse with a background in art therapy and art practice. In this project, she engaged with elderly people with dementia and their caregivers at nursing homes. Through creative processes in workshops on photography, writing, and collaborative creative work, elderly people became more able to profoundly express and interpret their memories. On the other hand, through art, caregivers could also get to know the elderly people under their care better, thus extending more meaning to care provision.

2019.12.26
Case Profile of "A Duet with You: Dancing with the Elderly Project" (Introduction)

Horse Dance Theater’s A Duet with You hoped to elicit individuality that was rarely known via exploration and understanding of the body. Duet dance is one such way to learn how to communicate with another individual or deepen mutual understanding. The workshop touched on the theme of inclusion through duet dances of the elderly, caregivers, and seed teachers, thus spreading the concept and fun of elderly dancing to various social groups.

2019.11.01
Case Profile of "Invisible Salt X Touchable Fields" (Introduction)

Tsai-Shan Tsui’s “Invisible Salt X Touchable Fields” was an exchange project that connected two places by performances and their production processes. The project featured performance tours derived from everyday labors in Xincen, Chiayi, and costumes handmade by designers in Yancheng, Kaohsiung. The tours connected two locations, particularly local communities with a history of salt ponds. Through matching by artists, the project gave participating elders unforgettable memories for life.

2019.06.10
Case Profile of "The Ancients of Gentle Music in Community" (Interview)

For some elderly people in Taiwan, Nanguan music is part of their childhood memory. Initiated by Ching-Yu Hua and in collaboration with the Yafeng Community Development Association in Daya District, Taichung City, “The Ancients of Gentle Music in Community” project organized a series of Nanguan music courses for the elderly in the Yafeng community. These courses featured string and woodwind instruments, and vocals, in conjunction with visual elements of the body, historical sites, and temples, as well as elements of modern arts.
 

2019.05.20
Case Profile of "The Ancients of Gentle Music in Community" (Introduction)

For some elderly people in Taiwan, Nanguan music is part of their childhood memory. Initiated by Ching-Yu Hua and in collaboration with the Yafeng Community Development Association in Daya District, Taichung City, “The Ancients of Gentle Music in Community” project organized a series of Nanguan music courses for the elderly in the Yafeng community. These courses featured string and woodwind instruments, and vocals, in conjunction with visual elements of the body, historical sites, and temples, as well as elements of modern arts.

2019.05.20
Performing Arts Abroad
To document strategic models, processes and outcomes of international development and exchange plans shared by art groups that received the support of NCAF's Performing Arts Abroad Project.
Reverse the Connection: Germany/Taiwan International Co-Production Project—Identity 2016-2019 Review

Polymer DMT is an interdisciplinary creative team that focuses on cross-cultural collaboration. It is originated in Taiwan and taking root in Germany and Europe. “Reverse the connection” aimed to achieve an in-depth cross-national co-production. By exploring individual and cultural identities through a series of works, it connected artists and art groups from Taiwan and Germany, thus realizing in-depth exchanges and cooperations in terms of creative resources, artists, and theater talents. Its output was eventually presented in the form of documentary theater.

2021.02.05
Delivery from Tokyo, Made in Chiayi: The 1st-Stage of the Asian Theater Experiment Base 2016-2019 Review

The project was a collaboration between Our Theatre, a Chiayi-based troupe committed to productions in the Taiwanese language, and Japanese director, Shô Ryûzanji and his Ryuzanji Company. It has developed a Taiwan-Japan co-production model, while its outputs received excellent feedback. The first creation emulated the working model of Japanese small theaters through Western classics; the second creation adapted a Taiwanese literary classic and was directed by Shô Ryûzanji; and the third creation was a co-produced original film.

2021.02.05
B.plan—Guest Choreographer Collaboration Project and Floating Flowers International Tour Promotion 2016-2019 Review

This project continuously promoted the international tour of B.Dance, Floating Flowers, an original performance from Taiwan. Moreover, Po-Cheng Tsai, the artistic director of B.Dance, proposed a progressive model of international cooperation, whereby in its first year, the troupe worked with one choreographer; in its second year, it visited Spain and worked with the dance troupe, La Verona; finally, it invited theaters for collaboration. It offered dancers ample bodily learning and challenges, in the hope of gaining more international exposure for the troupe.

2020.09.30
Rama’s House—A Three-Year Project 2016-2019 Review

Rama’s House—A Three-Year Project was a cross-cultural and cross-tradition collaboration between Horse Dance Theater’s artistic director, Wu-Kang Chen and a contemporary dance master from Thailand, Pichet Klunchun. Drawing inspiration from Ramayana, a well-known Indian epic, they had embarked on a three-year quest with different themes for each year, namely the “historical and cultural on-site research,” “learning with masters,” and “performance and dialog in the form of forum.”

2020.04.30
The Next Tumble Project 2016-2019 Review

In the face of the present environment in Taiwan, which is unfamiliar with different dimensions of contemporary circus art, Formosa Circus Art ruminates on finding the potential of Taiwan contemporary circus art. The Next Tumble Project gave a new shape to contemporary circus art through activities such as contemporary circus art workshops, and international co-productions and performance invitations. It had also vigorously connected with international resources to create new networks.

2020.04.16
In Search of the Island Memories—A Creative Process of Collective Improvisation 2015-2018 Review

In Search of the Island Memories was a collective improvisation project between the Performosa Theatre from Taiwan and the HKDA from Macao. Shaghayegh Beheshti, a senior member of Theatre du Soleil, led the project production. Since 2016, the project had undertaken recruitment, selections, and collections of stories, eventually resulting in the presentation of its first chapter, Kaléidoscope, in Macau and Taipei in 2018. 

2020.02.18
CAM as the Key of Creative and Sustainable Future 2015-2018 Review

Anarchy Dance Theatre’s “CAM as the Key of Creative and Sustainable Future” project sought to develop its international market with the Second Body dance tour. A three-year international exchange and network development plan were carried out to strategically promote and deepen the troupe’s international connection, thus creating an opportunity for long-term international exchanges and cooperations for its work in the future. 

2020.02.18
Taiwan International Improvised Music Festival and the Three-Year Project of Music Platform 2015-2018 Review

Taiwan International Improvised Music Festival and the Three-Year Project of Music Platform were curated by the Nicole’s Creative Artists Agency for improvised and electronic avant-garde music. The style of music has been gaining popularity internationally and is increasingly flourishing in Taiwan. This project enabled improvised music groups and individual musicians from Taiwan to participate in important international art festivals, thereby connecting with major experimental improvised music scenes in Europe, America, Mainland China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. It was instrumental for building a music platform for artist exchange programs.

2020.02.18
Notes Exchange-Dostoyevsky project 2015-2018 Review

The Notes Exchange-Dostoyevsky project was co-initiated by Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group from Taiwan and Dainanagekijo from Japan, in collaboration with the Mie Center for the Arts in 2016. Each year, it developed works under different themes. It also explored future possibilities of Taiwan-Japanese artistic collaboration, and stage performances in Taiwan and Japan so as to build local and international reputation for both troupes.

2019.12.10