From National Art to Critical Globalism
The biennial form was adopted and adapted by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in order to reform its official art exhibition and in response to the rise of multiculturalism and postmodernism in Taiwan's post-martial law era. This article, through a close analysis of the curatorial strategies
of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale from 1995 to 2011, reformulates our understanding of the biennial not merely as an exhibition format showcasing works of art but as a more flexible mechanism that signifies global postmodernism as both a continuation of and a break from the project
of modernism that had been previously carried out by museums. The trajectory of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has shifted from that of an exhibition motivated by a marginalized country's longing for national representation in a global art fair to one that critiques the logic of
cultural, political and economic hegemony that dominates the biennale and causes Taiwan's own marginality.
Keywords: Charlotte Bydler; Chieh-Jen Chen; Goang-Ming Yuan; Lee Mingwei; Okwui Enwezor; Taipei Biennial; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Te-Cheng Lien; The Taiwan Pavilion; Venice Biennale
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 July 2013
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