UK-based curator talks about online and digital arts at NCKU - CNA
Rachel Marsden, a UK-based research curator specialized in translating Chinese and Asian contemporary culture, invited by Professor Ming Turner of creative industries design at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), to give a lecture at the Institute of Creative Industries Design (ICID), NCKU, on the afternoon of September 16.
In her lecture titled “Curating the Third Space: Online & Digital Arts Today”, Marsden talked about contemporary digital arts, including internet art, online curatorial platforms and techno art, all within it’s called the third space.
The third space in my understanding comes from two different perspectives, according to Marsden, one is from the urban sociologist Ray Oldenburge and also coming from Homi K. Bhaba.
Marsden showed several art projects and curatorial platforms from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, to exhibit how to curate the work of art from different cultures and how to represent that.
Marsden, who is first time to Taiwan and has lived in China for two and half years, said, “Since being here, it’s been very interesting in terms of Taiwan’s understandings of themselves and the relation to Hong Kong, Macau and China. The independence in that sense is very clear mindset as to who they are and the identity that they have.”
“It’s been good to see different kind of understanding of representation of Asia, Chinese contact through Taiwan and that’s been very eye opening for me,” Marsden said.
Talking about her observation about art scenes in Taiwan, Marsden said, “Here you have many grass roots, artist lab practices coming from artist villages, and also communities and residency programs, so you got real kind of cultivation of art scenes from basic foundations.”
As a curator, Marsden said that she specialized in the national transcultural curatorial practices, working between different cultures particularly within Chinese contexts.
“I came here quite naïve, not realizing how independent Taiwanese people really consider themselves so I’ve been asking people quite directly how they position themselves to get to understand more,” she said.
Marsden is currently in her research trip which involves researchers, curators, artists locally in Taiwan, also from Hong Kong and China.
In her lecture titled “Curating the Third Space: Online & Digital Arts Today”, Marsden talked about contemporary digital arts, including internet art, online curatorial platforms and techno art, all within it’s called the third space.
The third space in my understanding comes from two different perspectives, according to Marsden, one is from the urban sociologist Ray Oldenburge and also coming from Homi K. Bhaba.
Marsden showed several art projects and curatorial platforms from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, to exhibit how to curate the work of art from different cultures and how to represent that.
Marsden, who is first time to Taiwan and has lived in China for two and half years, said, “Since being here, it’s been very interesting in terms of Taiwan’s understandings of themselves and the relation to Hong Kong, Macau and China. The independence in that sense is very clear mindset as to who they are and the identity that they have.”
“It’s been good to see different kind of understanding of representation of Asia, Chinese contact through Taiwan and that’s been very eye opening for me,” Marsden said.
Talking about her observation about art scenes in Taiwan, Marsden said, “Here you have many grass roots, artist lab practices coming from artist villages, and also communities and residency programs, so you got real kind of cultivation of art scenes from basic foundations.”
As a curator, Marsden said that she specialized in the national transcultural curatorial practices, working between different cultures particularly within Chinese contexts.
“I came here quite naïve, not realizing how independent Taiwanese people really consider themselves so I’ve been asking people quite directly how they position themselves to get to understand more,” she said.
Marsden is currently in her research trip which involves researchers, curators, artists locally in Taiwan, also from Hong Kong and China.
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