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{sensefield_biennale_2023 : relationships in uncertain times}

Advisory Board

DJ Hatfield

Gabriele de Seta

Kerim Friedman

Teri Silvio

Featured Artists

Cara Page

Eliana Otta

Mark Anthony

Pei-Ying Lin

Susan Ruffo

Tzu-Tung Lee

Yenting Hsu

Team

Tzu-Tung Lee

Eliana Ritts

Raku Lee

Yachu Yang

Andrew Lin

Yu-Chen Lai

Audiences welcome, and be warned: this exhibit will challenge you. Hold on for Dear Life: Relationships in Uncertain Times asks: What do we hold on to when our worlds are in flux? Between the COVID-19 pandemic, mounting geopolitical crises, and ongoing climate destruction, the future seems increasingly unstable. With so much out of our control it can be tempting to cut ties, turn inwards, and rely only on ourselves. This exhibition challenges this. We propose that in times of great uncertainty, it is our relationships – with ourselves, with human and non-human others, and with the landscapes and temporalities we inhabit – that will enable us to adapt and survive. Sensefield 感野 is a biennial exhibition that addresses contemporary issues through experimental ethnographic art. The 2023 curatorial theme plays with the phrase HODL, a mantra among crypto enthusiasts denoting a long-term approach to investing, which takes us to the intersection of art, anthropology, finance, and technology. Our show brings together artists who work with lost sounds, edible viruses, virtual sanctuaries of mourning, and computer gardening, blockchain politics, and healing histories. Their projects offer hope and possibility, but also hold inescapable perils, challenges, and contradictions. Throughout March and April, we invite you to join us for our online exhibition and a series of art workshops and training clinics. Each week you will encounter new ways to use digital technologies to create, sustain, and re-imagine a diverse network of relations. You will meet artists and experts who ask you to creatively re-imagine your own relationships and responsibilities, and think critically about what it means to be in a community with others. Our hope is that in the course of these sessions, we will activate relationships that extend beyond the exhibit, providing community and companionship as we work together to craft better futures. Sensefield 2023 is organized by Tinyverse NPO, in collaboration with the Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival (TIEFF) and the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography (TAVE). Sponsored by Taiwan Ministry of Culture.

Visual Design Concept

In the past three years, we have experienced a lot of turbulence and unrest, and we have fought against the invasion of the virus together. However, this has also given us the opportunity to slow down and reflect on ourselves, and to accumulate energy. In March 2023, on the sensory field, the silent energy broke through the long night and danced with the spring-like colors of green willows and red flowers. Spring is the beginning of the year and also the starting point for us to embrace a new life after the epidemic. Different voices and issues collide and intersect from different perspectives here, gradually outlining the main visual of this exhibition.

Exhibition Posts

Programmme

Online Exhibition Workshops: On March 2 - April 13, 2023, Every Tuesdays and Thursdays 8 pm(Taiwan Time).

Most of the Sensefield events are conducted primarily in English with Chinese simultaneous interpretation.

Sensefield reserves the right to change the program.

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3/2

Thursday

8pm

1pm

(TW)

(CET)

Online Opening Party

3/7

Tuesday

8pm

1pm

(TW)

(CET)

[Expert Clinic] Artistic License: Translating the Needs of Artists into Technology Licenses. ©KAREN GOVER - JD candidate at Harvard Law School where her focus is intellectual property law

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3/16

Thursday

8pm

1pm

(TW)

(CET)

[Art Workshop] Echoes of COVID: Stories Braiding Past to Future. ©CARA PAGE-Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker & organizer; ©SUSAN RAFFO-writer, cultural worker

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3/21

Tuesday

8pm

1pm

(TW)

(CET)

[Expert Clinic] What if we pretend the term Web3 never existed? ©MARÍA PAULA-Co-Founder of jpg.space and the Department of Decentralisation

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4/4

Tuesday

8pm

2pm

(TW)

(CEST)

[Art Workshop] Constructing an economic system for identities. ©TZU-TUNG LEE - Political artist and new media anthropologist

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4/6

Thursday

8pm

2pm

(TW)

(CEST)

[Art Workshop] Co-creating Fertilizing Mourning. ©ELIANA OTTA - Activist artist, curator, and scholar

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4/11

Tuesday

8pm

2pm

(TW)

(CEST)

[Art Workshop] Listen, Document, and Create Soundscapes. ©YENTING HSU - Sound artist and composer

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4/13

Thursday

8pm

2pm

(TW)

(CEST)

Online Closing Party

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4/19

8pm

2pm

Wednesday

(TW)

(CEST)

[Art Workshop] Virophilia Plays of Speculation: the past, present, and future. ©PEI-YING LIN - Speculative bio artist

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4/21

Friday

8pm

2pm

(TW)

(CEST)

[Art Workshop] Hyperlink Blues Writing Workshop. ©MARK ANTHONY - Media artist and writer

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5/10

8pm

2pm

Wednesday

(TW)

(CEST)

[Expert Clinic] Disability and Digital Curation

AIDAN MOESBY - Disabled curator and artist

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