For ghost month, Tea Philo E-Talk has invited Director of Tainan-based National Museum of Taiwan Literature Su Shuo-bin (蘇碩斌) and Wang Chia-Ling (王嘉玲), the museum's exhibition planner and organizer of Exhibition and Education Division to discuss conception of Taiwanese paranormal literature, themed "Taiwanese Paranormal Literature's Conception - The Curation Context of 'Enchanted Taiwan — Ghouls and Goblins' and 'Yao-Chi City'" via Facebook Live on Aug. 29.
Folk stories and myths infused with paranormal creatures and spirits exist in various cultures. Taiwan with its natural and geographical environment of extensive mountain ranges, rainy climate, constant earthquakes, and complex cultural and political history, are full of rich folklore traditions.
In the past five years, Taiwan literature has set off a wave of in-depth exploration of "monsters." The research on paranormal literature has gone mainstream, many authors put in effort to work on literature collection, field collection, identification and verification, in order to write many fictions and non-fictions, and find Taiwan’s original monsterology.
In 2018, the National Museum of Taiwan Literature curated the exhibition "Enchanted Taiwan – Ghouls & Goblins (魔幻鯤島·妖怪奇譚-台灣鬼怪文學)," and co-curated the exhibition "Yao-Chi City: Taiwanese Paranormal Literature and Contemporary Art Exhibition (妖氣都市-鬼怪文學與當代藝術)" with C-lab Taiwan in 2019.
This E-Talk will be discussing the topics of Taiwan paranormal literature context, and the rapid formation of paranormal literature in Taiwan. Lastly, the characteristics of paranormal literature and contemporary arts exhibition, such as the introduction of ‘Yao-Chi City’ and the transition of intellectual property.
As director of National Museum of Taiwan Literature and professor of National Taiwan University's Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature (2016-2018), Su has published many articles and the book "The Invisible and Visible Taipei (看不見與看得見的臺北, 2005)," in addition to translated books, including "The Cultural Theories of Media (媒介文化論)," and "The Municipal Sociology (都市的社會學)." He is also the chief editor of "Line of Sight on Travel (旅行的視線)," a non-fictional creative writing platform.
Wang currently works as an exhibition planner and organizer at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature’s Exhibition and Education Division. She has planned and executed over 20 exhibitions, including "Detective Fiction in Taiwan: Is There Only One Truth!? (推理文學在台灣—真相只有一個?!)," and "Yao-chi city: Taiwanese Paranormal Literature and Contemporary Art Exhibition (妖氣都市─鬼怪文學與當代藝術)."
Organized by the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Malaysia, and INXO Arts & Culture Foundation, with INXO CEO E-jan Tan (陳魚簡) acting as moderator of the E-Talk in mandarin. The E-Talk is open to all audiences with registration.
"Taiwanese Paranormal Literature‘s Conception - The Curation Context of 'Enchanted Taiwan — Ghouls and Goblins' and 'Yao-Chi City' "
Date: Aug. 29, 2020
Time: 3pm– 5pm
Site: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859675384184380
Registration Site: https://tp36.peatix.com/