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2021 Asian Art Biennial – Phantasmapolis
October 30, 2021 @ 9:00 am - March 6, 2022 @ 5:00 pm SMT
2021 Asian Art Biennial (2021 AAB) to return in full force at the end of October. The 8th edition of the biennial will run from October 30th 2021 to March 6th 2022, at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA). With the title “Phantasmapolis”, the biennial invites viewers to explore and to ponder upon the multi possibility of future with the works of 38 artists from 15 countries, in a (post) pandemic time.
The international curatorial team of 2021 Asian Art Biennial are Nobuo Takamori(Taiwan), Ho Yu-Kuan (Taiwan), Tessa Maria Guazon (The Philippines), Anushka Rajendran (India), and Thanavi Chotpradit (Thailand). The curators are given the mission to invite artists and to lead different sessions of the exhibition based on their field of expertise, each part of the physical showcase will be intertwined and provide the audience with various ways to understand their own position in history and present, to further picture where they’re going to be.
With the phantasmagoric city as a framework, a wide variety of exhibiting works ranging from contemporary artworks, the NTMoFA collection, archive studies, publications, to architectural works will be showcased alongside each other. Producing not only unique visual experiences but also render Futurism a piercing instrument to engage in discourses about historical, socio-political and economic issues.
