The Taipei County Art Exhibition (TCAE) started the transformation of official art exhibitions in the 1990s. It became not only a competition that abolished traditional art media categories, but also a precursor of outdoor installation in government-sponsored art exhibitions.
This book is edited by art historian Chiang Po-shin. The compilation includes two hundred relevant archives, along with articles written by invited art critics Lu Pei-yi, Yu Wei, Chen Kuan-yu, and Yang Chia-hsuan. Inspired by the environment, trash, noise, images, and the human body, these articles were written from various perspectives to analyze how the TCAE utilizes avant-garde experimentation within and outside the systems, and how this made the Tamsui River become a site where modern art evolved. This collective effort is to provide an exhibition history that entails both local context and global perspective.
Contents
【Forewords】
．Foreword by the Commissioner/ Kung Yea-wen(Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Department, New Taipei City Government)
．The Rhetoric of a Possible Telling/ Patrick Flores(Curator, Vargas Museum, Manila)
．Across County Lines: Locating Exhibition Histories/ John Tain(Head of Research at Asia Art Archive)
【Papers】
．Toward the Future of Translocalism: Where Global Exhibition Histories and Contemporary Art Archive Meet/ Chiang Po-shin
．The Tamsui River as a Method: Environmental Art(1994), Resurgence on the Tamsui River(1995), River: New Asian Art—A Dialogue in Taipei(1997)/ Lu Pei-yi
．On the Rim of the Taipei Basin, 1993-1995: Trash, Noise, and the Experiment of Local Government-sponsored Art Exhibitions/ Yu Wei
．View on the Tamsui River in 50 Years──Documenting Changes in the Human-Geographical Landscape under the Governance of Environmentalism/ Chen Kuan-yu
．Body Liberation at the Sides of the Taipei Basin Before and After the Lifting of Martial Law/ Yang Chia-hsuan
【Archives】
．Graphic Records Compilation
．Chronology of Key Art Events in Taipei County in the 1990s
【Appendices】
．Reference Source
．Index
．Authors
．Acknowledgments