Highest Education｜Ph.D., Humanities and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London (former London Consortium)
Email｜weiyu@ntua.edu.tw
Contact Number｜+886-2-2272-2181 ext.2141
Research Specialties｜Contemporary Art / Curating / Art Criticism / Postwar Taiwanese Art History
Education
| 2020 |
Ph.D., Humanities and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London (former London Consortium)
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| 2003 |
M.A., Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National College of the Arts
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Professional Experience
| 2023– |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Arts
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| 2020–2023 |
Curator, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts
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| 2019–2020 |
Head of Research, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2018–2019 |
Researcher, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2006–2007 |
Editor-in-Chief, ARTCO Magazine
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| 2005–2006 |
Editor, ARTCO Magazine
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Curatorial Projects (Selected)
| 2024 |
“Tsong Pu: Folding Landscapes”, Sky Gallery at Luodong Cultural Working House
“Walking the Shoreline: 2024 Formosa North Coast Art Festival”, North Coast & Guanyinshan National Scenic Area (Co-curator)
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| 2023 |
“Memory Palace in Ruins”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
“C-LAB Forum: A Future Slowly Cancelled”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2022 |
“Minimal Input – Algorithmic Art Gathering”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2021 |
“Liu Shih-Tung: Cut Out and Mix”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA)
“Signals: CREATORS 2020–21”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2020 |
“2020 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition – ANIMA”, Hong-gah Museum, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) (Co-curator)
“Yao Jui-Chung – Republic of Cynic (R.O.C.)”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB)
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| 2019 |
“City Flip-Flop: Stained”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) (Co-curator)
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| 2018 |
“The Alternative Guide of Time”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) (Co-curator)
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| 2017 |
“Broken Spectre”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) (Co-curator); shortlisted for the 16th Taishin Arts Award.
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| 2015 |
“Su Hui-Yu: A Man After Midnight”, Double Square; shortlisted for the 15th Taishin Arts Awards.
“The Taiwanese Underground: Dino, Wang Fu-Jui, Lin Chi-Wei” in Counterflows Festival, CCA Glasgow
“Shoot the Pianist: The Noise Scene in Taipei 1990–1995”, Peltz Gallery, Café OTO
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Conference Presentations
| 2022 |
“Broken Corporeality: The Subversive Arts and Its Representations Around the Lifting of Martial Law in Taiwan“ (破敗身體性：臺灣解嚴前後的破壞藝文及其再現), presented in Horizontal Art History: Perspectives from Taiwan, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (presented in Chinese)
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| 2017 |
“David Medalla, Li Yuan-chia and Rasheed Araeen’s Conceptualist projects from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s”, presented in Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings: Black Artists And Modernism In Europe After 1968, Van Abbemuseum (VAM), Eindhoven
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| 2015 |
“Transgressive Body
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Book Chapters (Selected)
| 2024 |
“The Gallery as Studio: The Trio Hall” (展場即片場：論蘇匯宇《三廳電影》), in The Trio Hall－Su Hui-Yu Solo Exhibition. Taipei: MoCA Taipe, 2024, pp.28–35.*
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| 2023 |
“Memory Palace in Ruins” (崩塌記憶之宮) (Curatorial Statement), in Memory Palace in Ruins. Taipei: Taiwan Living Arts Foundation, 2023, pp.10–15.*
“On the Rim of the Taipei Basin, 1993-1995: Trash, Noise, and the Experiment of Local Government Sponsored Art Exhibitions” (台北盆邊1993–1995：垃圾、噪音與地方美展實驗), in Exhibition in Becoming: Taipei County Art Exhibition and Experimental Art, 1992–1997. New Taipei City: Cultural Affaires Department, New Taipei City Department, pp.114–159.*
“When Bodies Become Information—On the Avatars in The Modern Exorcist” (當身體成為信息：談「現代驅魔師」中的虛擬化身), in The Modern Exorcist, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2023, pp.36–48.*
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| 2022 |
“Preface: From Studios to the Community Generating Experiments” (前言：從工作室到一個創造實驗的聚落), in Three Years: CREATORS 2018–2020. Taipei: Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), 2022, pp.10–15.*
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| 2021 |
“Art with Projects, Chapters, and Multiple Interim Presentations — 2021 Taipei Art Awards Observations” (關於藝術裡的計畫、篇章，與不只一次的階段性發表), in Taipei Art Awards 2021. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2021, pp.12–20.*
“Liu Shih-Tung: Cut Out and Mix” (影像燴──劉時棟個展) (Curatorial Statement), in Liu Shih-Tung: Cut Out and Mix. Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, pp.6–15.*
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| 2020 |
“Yao Jui-Chung – Republic of Cynic (R.O.C.)” (姚瑞中：犬儒共和國) (Curatorial Statement), in Yao Jui-Chung – Republic of Cynic (R.O.C.), Taipei: Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), 2020, pp.6–11.*
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| 2017 |
“Broken Spectre” (破身影) (Curatorial Statement) in Broken Spectre, in Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2017, pp.18–22.*
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| 2015 |
“Li Yuan-chia: Art and Artefact” (李元佳：造物), in View-Point: A Retrospective Exhibition of Li Yuan-chia, Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2015, pp.78-113.*
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Journal Articles (Selected)
| 2024 |
“From Air Plants and Bagasse Missiles to Marked Marble: Observations on Formosa Objects: Asian Contemporary Sculpture” (從空氣鳳梨、蔗渣飛彈，到有記號的大理石──「方物：亞洲當代雕塑展」觀察), The Sculpture Research Semiyearly (Additional Issue “Exhibition Writing And Phenomenon Observing), No.32 (2024.11), pp. 91-106. (in Chinese)
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| 2021 |
“Factories, Fake News, and Us as Audience: On Ting-Tong Chang’s New Project Soap” (工廠、假新聞與扮演受眾的我們：張碩尹新作《肥皂》計劃現場) , ARTFORUM 藝術論壇, 2021.11.03 (in Chinese)
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| 2020 |
“When Bad Students Start Editing: Laughter and Rebellion in 1990s Underground Zines” (當壞學生開始編輯──1990年代校園地下刊物的笑聲與反叛), ARTouch, 2020.03.19 (in Chinese)
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| 2019 |
“Waste, Noise, and Local Art Exhibitions.” Yishu, Vol.18. February 2019, pp.68–91.
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| 2014 |
“Kao Chung-li: Cinema Lucida,” ArtReview Asia, autumn/winter 2014. pp.68-71.
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