Events

SLEEP1237 draws inspiration from Matthew Fuller’s recent book, How to Sleep, the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness.
SLEEP1237 brings together reading, streaming, tea, food and beer for a night’s enquiry to the question, “How can we have an aesthetics of sleep – of sensing, experiencing, doing and perceiving – without consciousness? ”

The Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) has established the Taiwan Sound Lab in collaboration with the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) of France. The purpose is to explore the integration of new sound technologies, arts and culture. To announce its opening at C-LAB, these two organizations are presenting the C-LAB Sound Festival from November 22 to November 30, with sound technology works from Taiwan and France at C-LAB and Taipei Zhongshan Hall.

In the hands of three audiovisual artists, the infinite potentials for sound and visual artworks are finally unleashed! With the multiple Speakers array system established by the Taiwan Sound Lab, the three works of WANG Aluan’s Dynamized Center, WANG Liencheng’s Horizon, and YEH Tinghao’s Phantom Resonance will be given a whole new audio experience!

This talk departs from the first controversy over the anti-spitting movement in a Chinese community (which occurred in Hong Kong between 1907 to 1909) and traces back to the origin of the movement launched by the Health Department of New York City in the 1890s, further extending to the anti-spitting movement launched in Shanghai in the 1930s.

An explosive concert that brings together the musicians from L’Instant Donné with IRCAM. The composers, all of whom have passed through IRCAM, stimulate instrumental gesture through technology.

Here, perspective is used as a mode of representation and a system for the set design: the technique of photograms in which you scan and compose real images—here unfinished constructions in the south of Italy—with very different points of view. The 3D virtual décor will be modified live by the vibrations and distortions of the quartet.

People yearn to be cleansed and wish to elevate themselves and become upper-class. But, as we chase after being purified, what have we missed along the way?

•Mingle and share your what you imagine contemporary city gatherers do•Collecting and Observing the land, Adopting green areas•Reading and Learning about plans, environmental issues and herbal books•Just relaxing and chilling in the studio

Others use Herbicide, we let the grass free Recruiting volunteers to manage and adopt the green space at CLAB (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab). Creating a billboard, replacing the use of herbicides with observation and collection, allowing wild plants to grow freely with the seasons, and to breed freely; balancing the experimental urban ecology. Observing the […]

Experts and performers will lead the visitors on a seducing parcours through a series of thematically organised spaces. They appear as editing rooms featuring videos, photos, installations and other findings of a quotidian life full of paradox and the confusing reality of their origins, circumstances and consequences.