National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), which will launch "Phantasmapolis – 2021 Asian Art Biennial (未至之城－2021亞洲藝術雙年展)" on Oct. 30, announced the full list of participating artists on Aug. 31 in addition to pushing out a promotional video for the exhibition on its YouTube channel.
Taiwanese independent curator Nobuo Takamori (高森信男), who heads the 2021 Asian Art Biennial, serves as the main curator of this exhibition. Others who were invited to organize the exhibition include Taiwanese curator Ho Yu-kuan (侯昱寬), Filipino curator Tessa Maria Guazon, Indian curator Anushka Rajendran, and Thai curator and art historian Thanavi Chotpradit.
Themed around "Asian Futurism" and "Asian Sci-fi Culture," "Phantasmapolis" will explore Asia's past and future from a science fiction perspective, in addition to inviting 38 artistic teams from 15 countries to participate and discuss Asian metropolis, technology, conflict, gender, and future imagination in constructing an unknown city closest to the future.
Artists whose works will be on display include Indian photographic artist Sharbendu De, Korean artist Kim Ayoung, Vietnamese artist Lê Giang, Taiwanese artist Hung Tung-lu (洪東祿), Taiwanese artist Lin Shu-kai (林書楷), Thai artist Chulayarnnon Siriphol, and Cambodian artist Lim Sokchanlina, among others.
NTMoFA's director Liang Yung-fei (梁永斐) pointed out that Asian Art Biennial serves as an important platform for the convergence of Asian contemporary art, which aims to deepen the network of cultural exchanges by inviting artists from different regions in the Asia-Pacific region to participate.
Lasting until March 6, 2022, "Phantasmapolis" will not only cover Asian artists and their works, but will also explore contemporary art, archives, research literature, reading publications, architectural works and other such forms of expressions. In addition to the main themes of the exhibition, NTMoFA will put out films, documentaries, special screenings, forum plans, and academic reading publications.
For more information, please visit NTMoFA's Facebook page here, and Asian Art Biennial's page here.