◢Amy Cheng
Independent curator and art critic Amy Cheng (b. 1970) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. She received an MA from the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), and from 1997 to 1999 served as a lecturer of the history of Western art at Fu Jen Catholic University (Taipei). From 2000 to 2005 Cheng lived in Vancouver, Canada, and served as a feature writer for Taiwan'sARTCO Monthly magazine, where she currently works as a lead feature writer. Her art criticism has appeared in Chinese- and English-language journals including Modern Art, YiShu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Contemporary Art & Investment.
Cheng has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Invisible City (2003) and THTP/Phase Five/Oversight/2008 at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Ruins and Civilization (2004) at the Eslite Space in Taipei, the 2004 Taipei Biennial: Do you Believe in Reality? (co-curated), Altered States (2006) at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Traversing the Fantasy (2010) at Taipei's TheCube Project Space, The Heard and The Unheard─Soundscape Taiwan, Taiwan Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2011) and Re-envisioning Society (2011-2013) at TheCube Project Space of Taipei.
In 2009, Cheng undertook the one-year project Critical Political Art and Curatorial Practice Research, for which she established a website and contributed to and edited the publication Art and Society: Introducing Seven Contemporary Artists. With music and cultural critic Jeph Lo, she founded Taipei's TheCube Project Space in 2010, which aims to explore local culture, establish long-term relationships with artists, and promote contemporary art exchanges between Taiwan and the international community.
◢Jan-lanGuo
Independent curator and art critic Jau-lanGuo was born in Taiwan and lives in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2006 she completed her Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. Guo taught in the Department of Fine Arts, Huafan University from 1996 to 2008 and was adjunct associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts from 2008 to 2011. She taught history of modern art and contemporary art. Her Doctoral Dissertation "Robert Rauschenberg's Art in the 1960s: Toward Postmodern" examines how the American postmoderntheorists and art critics transplanted French theories through analyzing Rauschenberg's art.
Trained as an art historian, Guo's studies and projects have extended to the visual culture related issues in contemporary art. So far she has curated seven major exhibitions, they are:
1. Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Garde Documenta (National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan), 2006
2. Exercise of 0 and 1, 2008
3. Anti-type: Floating over the Stereotype, 2008
4. Nostalgia for Future, 2009
5. Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010
6. Paradise: Under RE-Construction (ISCP, New York), 2011
7. Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project) (ISCP, New York), 2011
In 2011 Jau-LanGuo was selected by Taiwan's Council for Cultural Affairs for curator-in-residence in New York, an exchange program with Iscp(International Studio and Curatorial Program). During the four months of her residency, she organized the Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project), an experiment of "performative curating" which approached the limitations of curatorship as well as the effectiveness of identity through borrowing the authorship from the participating artists.
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