Organized by Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), the 2026 annual exhibition WE Are Becoming centered on the concept of Becoming, moves beyond fixed cultural identities, pointing instead to a continuously evolving, interwoven, and reconstituted state of being. History has never truly vanished; it flows through architectural fissures and spatial traces, where the past “us” and the present “us” intersect, collectively asking: In reexamining history and the present, what are we becoming? What else can we become?
In response to the exhibition's theme, C-LAB will host a series of lecture performances, artist talks, talks, forum, workshops, community party and guided tours during the exhibition period (2026/05/08-07/12). These events invite the audience to enter an ever-evolving cultural field and reconsider the role and possibilities of art in contemporary society.
Programs
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▌Unreliable i｜Joanne DENG, i
Time：05/02 (Sat.) 13:30-15:10
Venue：Art Space I｜Gray Box
▌Beyond the Cold Sea, Every Cloud a Silver Lining｜Au Sow Yee × Chen Yow-Ruu（Her Lab Space）
Time：05/02 (Sat.) 16:50-18:30
Venue：Art Space I｜Gray Box
▶Free admission. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
▶︎Co-presented with Taiwan International Documentary Festival, TIDF
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▌Session 1｜Art within a Culture Isolation: Tehching HSIEH, 1969 - 1973
Tehching HSIEH, GUO Jau-Lan ( Discussant ), WU Dar-Kuen ( Moderator )
Time：05/09 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
Venue：Multi-function Space
▌Session 2｜When I Use "WE", Please Think of It as an Invitation
Chihhung LIU, HSU Jung, GUO Jau-Lan ( Moderator ), WU Dar-Kuen ( Moderator )
Time：05/09 (Sat.) 16:30-18:30
Venue：Multi-function Space
▌Session 3｜Artificial Stupidity & Artistic Intelligence
TSUI Kuang-Yu, Clara CHEUNG ( Discussant ), Gum Yee-Man CHENG ( Discussant ), WEI Tzer-Jen ( Discussant ), SHEN Bo-Chen ( Moderator )
Time：05/10 (Sun.) 14:00-16:00
Venue：Multi-function Space
▌Session 4｜Sailor Tattoos at U.S. Military Bases in Asia: From Hong Kong’s Fenwick Pier to Yokosuka, Japan
Jimmy Shy ✕ CHANG Yu, Yenbo KUO, GUO Jau-Lan ( Moderator )
Time：06/07 (Sun.) 14:00-16:00
Venue：R102 Coworking Space
▌Session 5｜From “the Art Infrastructure” to “Art as an Infrastructure”
CHEN Shiau-Peng, WU Dar-Kuen ( Moderator )
Time：07/04 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
Venue：R102 Coworking Space
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▌Dreaming of the Accelerator: Colonial Science, Nuclear Imaginaries, and Deep Time｜Lawrence Z. YANG
Time：06/20 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
Venue：R102 Coworking Space
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▌Chorus as Method
First Session｜Afterlife of Art in Wartime: Stories in Japan and Taiwan
GUO Jau-Lan, Megumi KITAHARA, Katsuo SUZUKI, HSUEH Yen-Ling ( Moderator )
Time：05/30 (Sat.) 10:00-12:30
Venue：R102 Coworking Space
Second Session｜Re-sounding: the Friction between the Audible and the Visible
Hikaru FUJII, Koichiro OSAKA, HONG Jin-Hwon, Posak Jodian, HSIEH Pei-Chun ( Moderator )
Time：05/30 (Sat.) 14:00-17:30
Venue：R102 Coworking Space
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▌History and Intelligence: Workshop with HO Rui An｜HO Rui An
Time：05/10 (Sun.) 16:30-19:30
Venue：Art Space II, 2F
▌Experimental Workshop: Re-enacting the "Missing Teeth Piano"｜Faculty and Students of School of Fine Arts, TNUA
Supervisors: GUO Jau-Lan, SING Song-Yong
Time：06/14 (Sun.) 14:00
Venue：Art Space I, 1F
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▌Vietnamese Immigrating Garden Party｜TUAN Mami, Vietnamese Community
Time：05/17(Sun.) 11:00-17:00
Venue：Multi-function Space
────────────────────────────Guided Tours────────────────────────────
Meeting Point: i-CENTER, 1F
▌Curator’s Tour｜WU Dar-Kuen
Time：05/16 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
▌Curator’s Tour｜GUO Jau-Lan
Time：06/06 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
▌Expert’s Guided Tour｜HSIEH Pei-Chun
Time：06/27 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
▌Curator’s Tour｜WU Dar-Kuen
Time：07/11(Sat.) 14:00-16:00
▶Free Admission via Online Registration.
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▶The organizer reserves the right to change, adjust, or cancel the event.