Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

Comments on the Finalist 

TSAI Ming-Liang, like a pilgrim or farmer, cultivates his artistic language between detachment from and engagement with the world. Over thirteen years of dedicated commitment, he has focused on his personal motif, allowing his creative work to branch out organically without bowing to international curatorial trends, fully manifesting the obsessive creativity of an artist. Employing ritualistic language and texts imbued with a religious hue without regressing art to supernatural shamanism or borrowing jargon like “spirituality” or “fieldwork,” the exhibition displays a robust artistic vocabulary that enables the work to emanate a mana-like energy. The curator threads the project meticulously, helping the artist collate thirteen years of documents and tease out the creative context. The finishing touch is the spatial arrangement, which cleverly overlays the temporalities of the films, installations, and performance art, enabling viewers to fully perceive the spiritual path of the “walker.” (Commentator / WU Yi-Hua)

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Production Team

Artist, Curator TSAI Ming-liang

Curator SING Song-yong

Collaborative Artist LEE Kang-sheng, KAO Jun-honn, Anong HOUNGHEUANGSY

Production Manager Claude WANG

Production Coordinator Katrina HSIEH

Marketing Manager HOU Li-yu

Press Coordinator Maggie LAI

Exhibition Design LIU Chi-yi

Installation Team NIEH Tung, Anong HOUNGHEUANGSY

Technical Installation Coordinator TIEN Zong-yuan

Preparator LAI Shin-yu, CHAN Yu-hsuan, WANG Yu, TSAI Wen-chang, LEE Jay-en, HUANG Zhi-li

Audio-Visual Engineering LIAO Yi-hsiang, LIU Yao-yang

Graphic Design Winder CHEN

English/ Mandarin Translation Leonard CHIEN, Katrina HSIEH

Photography HSU Huai-che, CHEN You-wei, LIN Hung-lung, Claude WANG

Videographer & Editor WANG Yao-yi, Rebecca TSAI, HU Liwei, FAN Wen-shin