首頁 Initiated in 2009, this research project focuses on critical and politically engaged artistic practices and curatorial thinking, working to reexamine the role and significance of art's intervention in contemporary society. The project builds a database of contemporary art, publishes artist essays and interviews, and through seminars and research inquires into what distinguishes socially engaged…
http://curatorsintensive.tw/ An international forum series centred on contemporary curatorial discourse, bringing together curators from around the world to explore curating as a method of knowledge production and cultural critique. Taking the pressing questions of the post-globalisation era as its axis, the forum deepens local curatorial education while building a cross-regional field for critical dialogue.
https://soundtraces.tw/ An archive of Taiwan's modern sound culture, tracing its history from the 1910s to the present through a timeline that spans the music industry, underground music, sound art, and the evolution of performance spaces. The project takes "reverberation" and "noise" as epistemological models, examining the cultural characteristics and social transformations of successive eras —…
1. Florence Cats / Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir （Belgium / Iceland） AIR（2025） “air” is part of the triptych air, water, fire, composed by artists Florence Cats (theremin, voice) and Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir (hulda, voice). Finding inspiration in the qualities of the natural elements, the new duo explores a wide range of frequencies, hybridizing electronic sounds and…
Since its establishment in 2016, TheCube Project Space’s The Praxis School has organized annual lecture series dedicated to creating platforms for in-depth discussions on art, culture, and social issues. Over recent years, the series has explored histories of technology and human-object relationships, culminating in the exhibition Madeleine Moment: The Technology of Memory and Sentiment in 2023. In 2025, amidst an era characterized by daily shocks and transformations, Praxis School shifts its focus towards historical inquiry. The first three lectures, organized in collaboration with theater critic Wu Sih-Fong, will feature a lecture series titled “A Topology at the End of History,” delivered by scholar and art critic Kuo Liang-Ting.
BANDUNG : stairway (S) Bandung is one of the cities in Indonesia known for its popularity in music, fashion, shopping destinations, and youth culture. Located not far from the capital Jakarta, Bandung’s popularity dates back to the colonial era when the Dutch government developed the city in the early 1900s as a tourist destination for…
By Irfan Popish Taipei, January 19, 2024 “I think we need some visual works for this exhibition,” said Jeph Lo from TheCube Project Space, an arts space in Taipei where I will be holding an exhibition in August 2024, during an online meeting. The exhibition will revolve around the topic of my thesis: how the…
Stranger Next Door Lecture Series in the summer of 2024 starts from reflections on Grilling Borders. TheCube invites 3 groups of researchers, writers, and artists from Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan to deliver 3 lectures from the perspectives of literature, visuals, history, society, and politics. A multi-dimensional discussion on ethnic and national borders will take place at TheCube on 3 consecutive Saturday from 29th June. The word “Stranger” in the original Greek text refers to “the people outside the fence, that is, the alien people.” Stranger Next Door Lecture Series originated from some thoughts on Taiwan’s southward policy.
Curatography Issue 11 “Ethics of Flourishing Onto-Epistemologies” focuses on exploring the prospective intricacies of a pluriversal onto-epistemological ecosystem from a curatorial perspective. “Constellation Assembly” initiative endeavors to cultivate interconnections among curators, artists, and diverse participants through dialogues and negotiations. Analogous to the assembly of celestial bodies forming constellations, this conceptualization posits the establishment of gatherings to construct flourishing onto-epistemologies, which are necessarily reconfigured from friendships among people and the exchange of dialogues between diverse perspectives.
In the post-epidemic era, international exchange activities in the contemporary art field have gradually increased, and both Taiwan and foreign institutions are launching residency programs and holding international forums. Yu-Lun (Fiona) Hsu, a student of CCSCA, was selected to participate in the ‘Curatorial Intensive Indonesia 2024’ held by Independent Curators International (ICI) and took a 10-day intensive training in Yogyakarta and Bali. This year, the Asia Society Switzerland collaborated with TheCube Project Space to assist Giada Olivotto, an independent curator from Switzerland, who was selected for Curator Residency, to conduct a two-month in-depth research trip in Taipei.