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2026-06-13BAZAAR
Exhibition to Watch this June: Lee Kan Kyo’s Solo Show “The Last CD”
Through The Last CD, Lee brings hundreds of album covers back to life through rigorous hand-painting. From content and medium to packaging and display, he completely deconstructs and refashions the materiality of pop culture. In doing so, he guides the audience to rethink the profound relationships between the idol industry, modern consumerism, and the intrinsic value of media.
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2026-05-28GQ
Lee Kan Kyo’s Solo Exhibition “The Last CD” Opens: Recreating Hundreds of Hand-Drawn CD Covers, the Former Supreme Collaborator Takes You Back to the Golden Age of Gongguan’s Record Stores
Since the 1990s, the Gongguan district in Taipei has been a vibrant hub for record stores. Scaling from major chains like Rose Records and Tsubasa Records to renowned independent sanctuaries such as Space City, Jasmine Bookstore, White Wabbit Records, and Rotten Blues, it was the ultimate treasure-hunting ground for hardcore music lovers who lived through the era of physical music collecting. Recently, The Kubrick Project—an art space also nestled in Gongguan—launched "The Last CD," a solo exhibition by Tokyo-based artist Lee Han-chiang. Across shifting dimensions of time and space, the exhibition invites everyone to experience and reminisce about the glorious days of the physical record era.
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2026-05-27500 Times
That CD You Once Loved! 300 Albums Reborn by Hand: Interview with Artist Lee Kan Kyo × Curator You Wei on ‘The Last CD’
'The Last CD' adds a 'fan's' perspective... he is not only an art-maker but also a fan of the CD as a digital carrier. (You Wei)
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2026-05-26Shopping Design
Artist Lee Kan-Kyo’s Exhibition “The Last CD” Opens! Over 300 Hand-Painted CD Recreations Transform the Gallery into a Record Store in Homage to the Physical Music Era
With "The Last CD," artist Lee Han-chiang spotlights the defining entertainment medium of the 1990s. In an age of rapid digital disruption, he hits rewind on time. Through meticulous hand-drawn strokes, he resurrects the CD albums swallowed by history, bringing the golden age of physical music back to light.
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2025-05-04ARTouch
What’s Intrinsic and What’s Transmitted Through Others Feel Quite Different — Au Sow-Yee × Chen Yow-Ruu’s ‘The Rocking Dream’
'The Rocking Dream' is not only a reinterpretation of the Si Tanggang story but also an indirect response to Southeast Asia's complex colonial history, forming a cross-cultural dialogue with Eiji Tsuburaya's tokusatsu tradition.
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2024-11-16Wazaiii
Unbinding Reason, Entering the Art Wonderland of ‘Sonic Shaman’: A Consciousness-Altering Experiment with TheCube
Face directly what the artist gives you, open up another way of perceiving—at that moment art is no longer difficult. (Amy Cheng)
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2024-10-28cacao
A Cross-Border Sound Lab ‘Sonic Shaman’: Breaking Out of Indifferent Bonds to Listen to One Another
Compared with conventional festivals that divide stages by genre, 'Sonic Shaman' emphasizes the cross-disciplinary fusion of seemingly unrelated elements—performance art, short-film screenings, site-specific creation and lecture-performance.
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2024-10-14Reading (udn)
Ready to Cross Over? Year-end Event ‘Sonic Shaman: TheCube Forum Music Festival’ Arrives at Two Venues
'Sonic Shaman' broke through the established frame of conventional music festivals, boldly fusing indie bands, lectures, experimental sound, music and visual art into a refreshing cross-disciplinary art event.
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2024-09-14500times
Feng Hsin on TheCube: From Research-Curating to a Music Festival, Cultivating Sound Culture in the Grey Zone
I have always believed that a culture's openness and richness depend on the grey zone between 'not yet happened' and 'already defined'... how much thickness and nuance that grey zone has shapes a culture's diversity and inclusiveness.
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2024-08-15ARTalks
What Is Giving For — On TheCube and Its ‘Vacant Lot’
In its fifteen years, TheCube has maintained an excellent reputation in Taiwan and across Asia and the world; this 'excellence' comes not only from its professional level but also from its integrity and backbone.
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2024-06-13Art Emperor
Taiwan’s First Online Crowdfunding by an Art Collective: Rewards Include Limited Works by Lim Giong, Lai Chih-Sheng and SUPERFLEX
This crowdfunding campaign is not merely about raising future operating funds, but an attempt to explore and define the possible future direction of the 'independent space' and its distinctive role in contemporary culture.
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2024-04-24ARTouch
‘The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains: The Sounds and Images of Yang Kui’ — Representing Yeh Tao and the Dilemmas of Japanese-era Taiwan’s Trans-lingual Writers
Yeh Hsing-Jou's project takes Yang Kui's crossover with indie music as its lead... yet the artists' works let me see and extend different facets and cultural imaginations of Yang Kui.
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2023-07-06Art Emperor
‘Madeleine Moment — The Techniques of Memory and Emotion’ International Group Show PART II: Exploring Collective Memory Through ‘Objects’
The madeleine creates not only the individual's private experience but also shapes people's collective identification with particular things.
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2023-05-27Art Emperor
[Seven People Crossing the Sea — Huang Po-Chih Solo Exhibition]
The exhibition links 'seven life stories crossing four regions and times,' lives that—amid an era and society in transition—seem alike yet differ, 'circulating and repeating like ocean currents.'
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2023-01-19CLABO
A Hybrid, Cross-Disciplinary Modern Ritual: Notes on TheCube Forum Music Festival — Sonic Shaman
The diversity, hybridity and crossover shown through each performer's own character is perhaps the most authentic face of this era... everything modern today lays the groundwork for tomorrow's future.
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2022-12-08ARTouch
[Sonic Shaman Feature] Ecstasy and Trance: Ten Years of Live Sound in Taiwan
As things disappear, new ones are also born. Founded in 2010, TheCube Project Space continues to cultivate research into Taiwan's sound culture through exhibitions, lectures, publications and projects.
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2021-11-03NCAF Online Magazine
Questioning the Ideal and the Real in Distortion’s Bias: Ting-Jung Chen’s ‘Harmonielehre’
Ting-Jung Chen invokes this 'the more deviant the more beautiful' physical phenomenon... to question what is ideal and what is real, and the paradox of message-transmission and the system of power.
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2021-11-01PAR (Performing Arts Review)
TheCube Co-founder Amy Cheng: ‘Curating’ as a Method of Running a Space
From the very start we set out to run TheCube with the method of 'curating'... that is why we call it a 'Project Space' rather than an 'Art Space.' (Amy Cheng)
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2021-09-23ARTouch
On the Possibility of Politicizing Collective Repentance: Wu Chi-Yu’s ‘Atlas of the Closed Worlds’
'Atlas of the Closed Worlds' takes 'deep apology' as its core, proposing a world structure of 'a future without me' as a solution... 'apology' is the utterance after extinction, a reconciliation of recognition and acceptance.
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2021-08-04Art Emperor
[Twisting theCube Series #1] ‘Undercurrents — Taiwan Art Gatherings 1980–2000: Taipei Chapter’
Artists, in a guerrilla, mobile and improvised mode of organization, opened up artistic ideas... seen today, these are the many undercurrents that ran through the course of Taiwan's contemporary-art development. (curator Huang Yu-Chieh)
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2021-01-21ARTalks
Liquid Love
'Liquid Love' uses art to dialectically reflect on humanity's future life, probing how the internet, big data and information overload affect contemporary people's lives.
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2020-12-16Art Emperor
Liquid Love: Love Like Water, ‘Be Water, My Friend’ in the Stock Sea
The gap and rupture between fragmented, audience-segmented media experience and bodily experience in the physical world lets everyday chaos endlessly ripple through the lifeworld.
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2020-12-10ART PRESS Asia
From ‘Rainy Night Flower’ to the Anthem: ‘Sound Meridians’ by curator Jeph Lo in MOCA Taipei
The 'sound' that threads through every stretch of real history is often what comes closest to that real culture and the spirit of its time.
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2020-11-01kaiak
Performing Sound Culture and the Information-Network Society Through Art: the ‘Sound Meridians’ & ‘Liquid Love’ Double Exhibition
The title 'Sound Meridians' is inspired by traditional Chinese-medicine meridians, presenting how sound culture serves as a medium and raw material of historical topology to reveal a place's distinctive historical and cultural development.
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2020-07-15ARTouch
A Survival Plan Beyond ‘Subsidies’? Looking at Taiwan’s Arts Fundraising Through ‘Mapping the Decade’
We want viewers to understand what TheCube has been through over ten years... and after that, whether you would be willing to support such a space of cultural and artistic production. (Jeph Lo)
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2020-06-23Art Emperor
Guerrilla in an Institutionalized World, with Curating and Alternative Knowledge: Before and After TheCube’s ‘Mapping the Decade’
Using curating as a methodology to establish the ways in which this alternative knowledge is practiced. (Amy Cheng) (Also: 'Over these ten years we've found that running a non-profit space is hard, but not impossible.')
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2020-05-05ARTouch
Building a Spectrum of Difference: TheCube’s Ten-Year Trajectory and Platformization
Meaning must come from reflection. Our mission remains alternative knowledge production—building a spectrum of difference, creating a field that can hold different modes of thought and possibility. (Amy Cheng)
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2020-01-10ArtReview Asia
Five to See: Taipei
At TheCube, she's showing three short videos that explore 'the relation between images, image making, historiography, politics and power', with a focus on the re-imagined history of Southeast Asia.
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2019-12-26ARTalks
TheCube’s ‘Au Sow-Yee: Still Alive’
'Still Alive'—what is still alive? Those who live on inheriting history's residue, or those who have vanished into history yet still live in history or memory?
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2019-06-16ARTalks
Shen Sen-Sen’s Solo Exhibition ‘Future Excavation 2.0’ at TheCube
TheCube Project Space has for many years kept its attention on sound creation in contemporary art, and is genuinely distinctive and persistent in opening up the possibilities of the contemporary-art field.
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2018-05-15ARTouch
Across the 38th Parallel: A Seoul Report on ‘Towards Mysterious Realities’
Although exhibitions on Asia and Cold War history are not rare in the region, one willing to expand across time and space with such a clear stance and discourse is genuinely rare.
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2017-01-30ARTalks
The Cold-Memory Effect: On James T. Hong and Lee Shih-Chieh in ‘Towards Mysterious Realities’
'Towards Mysterious Realities' concretely continues the distinct proposition Amy Cheng has pursued in recent years, taking Asia as curatorial practice and problem-consciousness.
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2016-09-03The News Lens
The Role of Plants in Politics: Zheng Bo’s ‘Weed Party II + Toad Commons’
The exhibition focuses on the tension between political parties (a much-questioned yet persistent contemporary political form) and weeds (an ecological force that discomforts contemporary society yet cannot be eradicated).
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2015-10-28The News Lens
Hearing the Artist ‘Tell Stories’ on the Balcony: Chen Chieh-Jen’s Images, Production, Action and Documents
In a small space the exhibition is all the more interesting—audience and artist so close that every quip, discussion and rebuttal is within reach; TheCube's exhibitions are exactly like this.
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2015-10-04The News Lens
Interview with TheCube’s Founders: ‘We used to call it Chinese music, then we wanted to make Taiwanese music, the people’s music’
We hoped this space would be not just an exhibition venue but a platform for long-term projects—that is why we call it a Project Space. (Jeph Lo)
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2015-07-27ARTalks
13th Taishin Arts Award Grand Prize — TheCube Project Space’s ‘Altering Nativism’
Curating is indeed like creating, but in its issues and methods it differs from an artist's state of self-accountability or dialogue... the exhibition is a collective condition, combined with a research purpose. (This was Taishin's first Grand Prize to a curatorial project.)
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2015-06-02ARTouch
‘Altering Nativism: Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan’
From making sound to emitting sound is a social process, which also determines which sounds can be heard and which are silenced and erased.
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2014-04-01PAR (Performing Arts Review)
Sound Never Dies: Exploring Post-war Taiwan’s Sound Culture
'Altering Nativism' draws out a sixty-year trajectory from the post-war era to today... and, more importantly, makes the viewer reflect on the interaction between sound and the self and life, far deeper than imagined.
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2013-01-01NCAF Online Magazine
More Than a Cube: TheCube Project Space’s Vocal Exercises
The results of an exhibition or the artworks themselves are not the most important thing; the experimental 'concept' in the process of creation or performance is, for TheCube Project Space, the most precious gain.
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2012-01-01AOFA
Recording and Narrating Sound: Sound and the Land — The Chiayi Sound Regeneration Project
The 'sound documentary' returns almost directly to sound as a carrier of knowledge, reading in the sound material a relationship closer to human experience, culture and memory.
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2011-12-28MOT TIMES
Jao Chia-En’s REM Sleep: Filming the Dreams of New Migrants
The artist filmed the dreams of the short-term migrant workers brought in from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam after Taiwan's 1990s Go-South policy as they slept during their stay in Taiwan, reflecting on the character and transformation of contemporary life.