Events

•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 […]

What does “stain’ of city mean? How to give the “stain” a visible configuration?

Yao-Chi City, Taiwanese Paranormal Literature and Contemporary Art Exhibition explores the horror genre in Taiwan through related works of literature and art, graphic novels, VR/AR, installations, performances games, and parades. The exhibition weaves together literature, folk traditions, and contemporary cultural settings to give all manner of demons and monsters their proper moment in the spotlight.

Though this Labtalk, we will discuss features of our modern culture, history, customs, and geography and try to come up with ideas that transcend time and space together. Let our experiences from the past help us imagine the infinite possibility for the future.

Seeking articles about gathering weeds in the city, welcome to share the different experiences and interactions with the land. Listening to people of different generations talk about their feelings of collecting weeds. All writing styles are welcome i.e. poetry, love letter…etc.. Let the words move the readers.

Once upon a time, there was the “1990s,” in which LGBTQ people started to construct identity and alliances in Taiwan. Through the project of “Representation, Resistance, Reconciliation: Tracing the History of Tongzhi Stigma in Taiwan,” we will hold 3 panels with experienced LGBTQ activists to discuss and trace the significant historical moments.

Ferment the city!/ Pei-Yin Shih+Far Away Skype/ Claire Mauquié
From food sharing experi,ment to upcycling reflection/Stefan Simon

The important starting point of MASHUP all the CREATORS is an aim to extend the practices during “CREATORS Residency Program,” to explore possibilities of connection and hybridity, and to further find a new form of exhibition/performance/representation. It is not merely a performance, not merely an exhibition, not merely an archive or documentation of an event. It is, in additional to all, a manifesto of a newly-established cultural ecosystem declared by the C-LAB.

In the city there is an abundance of weeds, that are common herbal tea ingredients, wild vegetables and living materials. Through the observation, we can have an intimate connection with the land, create biodiversity in the city, heal yourself and the land. We invited experts from different fields to explore the possibilities and imaginations of collecting life in urban cities.