Madeleine Moment: The Technology of Memory and Sentiment —— curatorial statement
Madeleine Moment: The Technology of Memory and Sentiment is a research based curatorial project that TheCube Project Space has undertaken since 2022. Madeleine Moment proceeds in three phases over a two-year period.
Notes for Tomorrow—Southern Taipei Version
Curated and produced by ICI, co-organised by TheCube Project Space, Notes for Tomorrow—Southern Taipei Version featured the works by a total of 35 curators and 34 artists / collectives from around the world. The curatorial philosophy behind this exhibition was to respond to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world and reflect on the instability and unknown state caused by the pandemic.
Harmonielehre ─Ting-Jung Chen Solo Exhibition
Initiated in 2016, TheCube’s research residency program has annually supported artist(s) and curator(s) to Taiwan or foreign countries for their respective research projects. In 2021, TheCube invited Ting-Jung Chen, the winner of the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018, back to Taipei for the four-month research residency. Orientating her research toward the subject of “sound as a tool for identity and community construction,” the artist is going to stage her solo exhibition— Harmonielehre that treated surround sound, sculpture, and image as the media. Visitors were welcomed to this exhibition where they could immerse in the mesmerizing world of sound waves interlaced by the real and the virtual.
Atlas of the Closed Worlds —Wu Chi-Yu Solo Exhibition
Following his four-channel video installation work The LED Future (2020), which investigated artificial light and the consciousness behind technology, artist Chi-Yu Wu presented his work Atlas of the Closed Worlds at TheCube Project Space. Through the approach of scenario planning, this work unfurled extensive research, stretching beyond historical facts along the long river of time, and including a cornucopia of changes in the surroundings and myriad imagined possibilities. Events from history and novels were amalgamated into a repository of information, generating different closed worlds through random numbers and evoking dystopian fantasies.
Joint exhibitions : Liquid Love & Sound Meridians co-presented by MoCA Taipei and TheCube Project Space
Co-organized with MoCA Taipei, TheCube Project Space is pleased to present the Liquid Love & Sound Meridians international group exhibitions at MoCA Taipei.
The Topography of a Decade: The Fund-raising Exhibition for the 10th Anniversary of TheCube Project Space
We celebrate the “ten-year” milestone in the development of TheCube Project Space. The visual imagery of the number of ten resembles not only an ouroboros but also a fractal world that continues unfolding in a cyclical and ever-changing fashion.
ARTIFICIAL UNIT
Artificial Unit, curated by Sun Yi-Cheng, seeks to reexamine how the existing units (incl. nation, family, race, and self) were formed through the “regulated co-production,” and on the other hand tries to construct an ideational model for the question as to “how people fabricate units” on the basis of exhibition and scenario-based performance.
The Ouroboros
Curated by Amy Cheng of TheCube Project Space in Taipei, The Ouroboros is an international joint exhibition that marks the second phase in the 2018-2019 Taiwan-Luxembourg Exchange Program. This exhibition will be synchronously on view at TheCube Project Space in Taipei and the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art Contemporain in Luxembourg.
Towards Mysterious Realities reader/catalogue
Toward Mysterious Realities is a research plan devoted to rethinking the relation between Asia and the international world. Through a two-year plan, artists will display their views on specific historical moments and life experiences.
dust to dust: of myths and men
The international exchange exhibition dust to dust: of myths and men was presented by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, TheCube Project Space, and VT Artsalon. The exhibition is curated by Kevin Muhlen, director of the Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, featuring the collaborative work by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, and the work from Marco Godinho.
UNIT OF INTERDEPENDENCY
Seeing art as alternative activities to produce knowledge, this exhibition has grown out from the project, Selves-Educating, to focus on the collectives or communities formed for co-production of alternative knowledge, as well as the political subjects constructed during the process of co-production, in which common ideology and active/resistant agencies are established via negotiation. For this exhibition, these self-organizing political subjects, which co-produce alternative knowledge, are saw as the "unit of interdependency" for us to re-imagine an ideal society.
THE OCEAN AFTER NATURE
The Ocean After Nature considers the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world through the work of twenty artists and collectives.
Lee Kit’s solo exhibition “The more I ignore you, the closer you get.”
This exhibition, titled “The more I ignore you, the closer you get.” started on view from 18 February until 9 April, 2017. Lee Kit tends to project the indescribable spiritual dimension of our quotidian existence to the exhibition venues with paintings, texts and images based on the dialogues that embody his personal attributes and implicit political struggle for survival. His artworks always leave the spectators with a feeling of empathy for his deep sentiments and acumen.
Towards Mysterious Realities
Sponsored by the 2015 Production Grants to Independent Curators in Visual Arts of National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, co-organized by TheCube Project Space and TKG Foundation for Arts & Culture, and curated by Amy Cheng, the exhibition Towards Mysterious Realities will open on December 10, 2016 at TKG+ in Taipei.
Zheng Bo: Weed Party II + Toad Commons
Invited by TheCube Project Space, Chinese artist Zheng Bo has spent multiple periods in Taipei working as an artist in residence since the summer of 2015. On September 3, 2016, Zheng will present Weed Party II + Toad Commons at TheCube Project Space and the nearby Toad Mountain.
Working-Through: Vandy Rattana and His Ditched Footages
TheCube Project Space is pleased to present Cambodian artist Vandy Rattana’s first solo exhibition in Taiwan, titled Working-Through: Vandy Rattana and His Ditched Footages, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu.
The Bianwen Book: Images, Production, Action and Documents of Chen Chieh-Jen
TheCube Project Space is honored to present Chen Chieh-Jen’s solo exhibition The Bianwen Book: Images, Production, Action and Documents of Chen Chieh-Jen. Date of the exhibition is from October 24th, 2015 to January 10th, 2016, and the special screening “Realm of Reverberations Returns to Losheng” and the artist talk will be held on 3-6pm, Sat., January 9th, 2016.
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within
The exhibition titled The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within is collaborated by James T. HONG and Yin-Ju CHEN.
Why Does The Wind Blow Whenever We Remember Loved Ones?
The exhibition curated by TSAI Jia-zhen, adopting the narration of Underground, this exhibition will focus on the “narrative syntax of political reality in video works and its construction and expression of context,” inviting two young Korean artists Jungju An and Sojung Jun, who also teach in the university, and often partake in residencies abroad, which have astutely enriched their observation of subjects and phenomena, expanding the expression of their work.
Unground
TheCube Project Space of Taipei, in collaboration with Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, is pleased to present on September 11th UNGROUND, an 8-channel audio-visual installation by the Luxembourgish artist-duo Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert. Kevin Muhlen, artistic director of Casino Luxembourg, where the exhibition had its first reveal in 2012, is curating the Taipei exhibition.
Altering Nativism – Sound Cultures in Post-War Taiwan
Based on ongoing fieldwork, the exhibition Altering Nativism explores Taiwan’s various post-war sound culture movements by presenting historical documentation, audiovisual archives, and artworks.
A Journal of thePlague Year. Fear, Ghosts, Rebels. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong Story
TheCube Project Space is delighted to host A Journal of the Plague Year’s first touring stop in Asia. The exhibition curated by Cosmin Costinas(Director of Para Site, HongKong) and Curator Into Guerrero. Taiwan and Hong Kong share many chapters of their history. This exhibition wants to serve as a start for a reflection on this shared historical background and rhetoric narratives between the two regions facing a tumultuous present and an uncertain future under the same specter.
Memo-Scape
Memo-scape encapsulates over 2 years of in-depth field research and interviews conducted in Kaohsiung City’s Cijin and Yancheng Districts by Professor Huang Sun-quan and the Islands group.
Lurking Waves: Fujui Wang / Collected Objects from the ’90s
The exhibition presents documentation from the early period of Wang’s career, including publications, cassette tapes and CDs produced by Wang’s experimental music label NOISE founded in 1993.
Living As Form
Living As Form is a research-based audio-visual documentation exhibition, curated by chief curator of Creative Time of New York, Nato Thompson. It surveys more than 100 projects in the past 20 years that blur the line between art and everyday life, and that emphasize participation, dialogue, and community engagement.
60-min Cinema: People’s Park
Guest curated by Beijing curator Dong Bingfeng, 60-min Cinema: People’s Park opened at TheCube Project Space on April 27 and runs through June 16. The exhibition presents four videos by artists Yang Fudong, Cao Fei, Yang Jun and Zhao Liang under the theme of dislocation in Chinese public life.
Re-envisioning Society
Series of exhibitions, Re-envisioning Society Curated by Amy Cheng, are held from Dec, 2011 to Mar, 2013.
TheCube Journal
TheCube Journal is included the exhibition information and interview "CubeTalk".
Project 35
Project 35, curated by ICI (Independent Curators International) is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work by an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today.
Traversing The Fantasy
Curated by Amy Cheng, Traversing the Fantasy is an exhibition that includes the work of French artist Julien Prévieux, the art team of Allora and Calzadilla from the US and Cuba, the Danish art collective Superflex, Taiwanese video artist Tsui Goang-yu, Wu Chang-jung and photographer Liu Ho-jang.
