Yooyun Yang participates in 'Taipei Biennial 2023: Small World'
Curated by curator Freya Chou, writer and editor Brian Kuan Wood, and curator Reem Shadid, this year’s iteration of Taipei Biennial will bring together over 50 international and local artists and musicians, transforming the museum into a space of listening, gathering, improvising, and exploring alternative ways to perceive and apply what we learned from the recent pandemic. Nineteen new works and commissions will be featured at the Biennial, alongside installations, performances, and musical and cinematic experiences that question promises of the simple and sensual amidst increasing tension and complexity.
The title 'Small World' suggests both a promise and a threat: a promise of greater control over one’s own life, and a threat of isolation from a larger community following a global pandemic. Our world can become smaller as we grow closer to one another, but also as we grow apart. This 'Small World' explores a place between being unable to join together, and being not completely separate. Through a series of presentations that comprise sound, music, moving images, photography, video, paintings, sculptures and installations, 'Small World' presents audiences with a dilemma faced by all of us.
Participating artists include Pio Abad, Nadim Abbas, Yang Chi Chuan, Li Yi Fan, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Nesrine Khodr, Jen Liu, Lai Chi Sheng, dj sniff and Yooyun Yang.
