Leo LIU started the Dogpig Art Café after withdrawing from the art community in Taipei and returning to Kaohsiung at the end of 1999. Differing from alternative spaces with professionalism and exclusive to professional artists, Dogpig Art Café emphasized that, through a simple registration process, anyone could freely present visual artworks, perform music, or stage performances, all without censorship. Missing Teeth Piano is a shabby piano displayed in the Dogpig Art Café. Nonetheless, the broken strings and exposed structure didn’t discourage participants from playing it. From this piano emerged programmatic events such as “Beat the Sheep Show,” “Ecstasy Day,” and “Labor Art,” transforming The Missing-Tooth Piano from a personal plaything into a relational object that helped build the café’s community.
Supervisors: GUO Jau-Lan, SING Song-Yong
Time: 06/14 Sun. 14:00
Venue: Art Space I, 1F
The Experimental Workshop: Re-enacting the "Missing Teeth Piano" is led by GUO Jau-Lan, guest curator of C-LAB Annual Exhibition, WE Are Becoming, and Professor SING Song-Yong from the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. The workshop brings the pedagogical setting into the exhibition space. The teaching program began with students collectively reading a set of archival materials from the Dogpig Art Café, Dog Pig Sound. On the day of the workshop, students will present their reenactment proposals in response to the Missing Teeth Piano on site. The critique session, commonly found in art schools, will also be relocated to the exhibition space of WE Are Becoming, with key figures from the early cultural scene invited to participate as reviewers.
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Speaker Bio
▌GUO Jau-Lan
Curator, 2026 C-LAB Annual Exhibition, WE Are Becoming
Associate Professor of Taipei National University of the Arts. GUO teaches contemporary art, art history and curatorial practice. Her research interests revolve around the issue of artistic migration, circulation, art historiography and contemporary art within the culture of display. Her recent curatorial projects have been focused on practicing perceptible art historiography, that is, art history for the public.
▌ SING Song-Yong
SING Song-Yong is a Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts at Taipei National University of the Arts. He has curated several major exhibitions, including Footprints of the Walker: Tsai Ming-Liang, The Dawn of Taiwanese Video Art in the 1980s-1990s, and A One and a Two: Edward Yang Retrospective, among others. His research interests include the aesthetics of contemporary Chinese-language cinema, the intersections between contemporary art and cinema, and the theories and aesthetics of contemporary French film. His publications include Projecting Tsai Ming-Liang: Towards Transart Cinema and Taiwanese Cineplasticity: Six Cross-Disciplinary Moving-Image Arts in Search of Cinema, among others.
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