The title “Small World” suggests each a promise and a risk: a promise of larger management over one’s personal life, and a risk of isolation from a bigger group following a worldwide pandemic. Our world can turn out to be smaller as we develop nearer to at least one one other, but in addition as we develop aside. This “Small World” takes place inside such a suspended state of being unable to hitch collectively nor utterly separate. By a collection of shows that comprise sound, music, transferring photos, pictures, video, work, sculptures and installations, “Small World” presents audiences with the dilemma confronted by us and our societies. 

Curated by curator Freya Chou, author and editor Brian Kuan Wooden, and curator Reem Shadid, this 12 months’s iteration will carry collectively over 50 worldwide and native artists and musicians, remodeling the museum into an area of listening, gathering, improvising, and exploring alternative routes to understand and apply what we realized from the current pandemic. Nineteen new works and commissions can be featured on the Biennial, alongside installations, performances, and musical and cinematic experiences that query guarantees of the straightforward and sensual amidst rising stress and complexity. 

The three curators said that: “The small world is a lonely and entitled place that we’ve misplaced elements of ourselves and our societies to, however it might even be a spot that welcomes unusual acts of refusing to scale up or down, to amplify, unplug, transfer, or keep put. It’d lure us in the direction of illusions of unattainable permanence and ease, in the direction of absolute primacies and intoxicating authenticities that surpass all influences, however it additionally encourages us to betray the necessity to translate and be understood, to please others for some eventual profit that by no means arrives.”

at Taipei Fantastic Arts Museum
till March 24, 2024