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About 2009-The 8th Taishin Arts Award
Taishin Arts Awards: The Best Visual and Performing Arts in Taiwan 2009
About 2009-The 8th Taishin Arts Award
The 8th Taishin Arts Awards will be awarded on May 1st, 2010 by a jury including Jiunshyan LEE of Kao Yuan University of Technology Arts Center, Ava HSUEH
of Tainan National University of the Arts, Akira TATEHATA of National Museum of Art, Osaka, Grazia QUARONI of Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Wei-Zi FAN of Chinese Culture University, Huei-Ling JI art critic, Mathias Woo Yan-wai of Zuni Icosahedron, Hong Kong, Greg RANDALL of Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, and John ASHFORD of Aerowaves-dance across Europe, UK.
The prestigious annual prize recognizes the best of Taiwanese visual art and performing art. Besides the Performing Arts Award and the Visual Arts Award, each worth NT $1 million, there is the Jury's Special Award for NT $300,000.
The 5 finalists for the Visual Arts Award are Li-Ren CHANG "Irdina-A Solo Exhibition," Ming-Tse LEE "I Love Taiwan and Love Southern Taiwan Even More," Ching-Yuan CHEN "The LiQUiD STATE," Po-Chih HUANG "Soft Revolt," and Su-Chen HSU and Chien-Ming LU "Plant-Matter NeoEden: Born in a Vegetable Patch & Material World in the Amis Tribe of Riverbank."
The 10 finalists for the Performing Arts Award are the Möbius Strip Theatre "2012," Wen-Chi SU "Heroïne," Ju Percussion Group Foundation "WU Shih-San Percussion Recital—NÉOPERCUSME," Taipei Chinese Orchestra "Christian Lindberg and TCO" and "Claude Delangle," Formosa-Zephyr Opera Troupe "Taiwanese Opera Thriller-Murder in the Blizzard Night Inn," Puppet & Its Double Theater "Der Schönste Moment," All Music Theatre "6 plus 11-The Duo Matchless," Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group "Once, upon Hearing the Skin Tone" and National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center "Song of Pensive Beholding."
The Taishin Arts Award exhibition opens on April 24 at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and will feature the work of all the finalists who were shortlisted by a local jury. The catalogue will be available then.
The Taishin Art Foundation nurtures the arts by working within the art community to help bring greater understanding of visual and performing arts throughout Taiwan.
Nominees for the 4th Quarter
October 1st ~ December 31, 2009
Nominees for the 4th Quarter
Category: Performing Arts
《Flashing Lucidity》／Dance Forum
《Growing Up》／HORSE
2009 Flagship Production《Song of Pensive Beholding / Chants de la destinée 》／Legend Lin Dance Theatre
《Legitimate Crimes》／Ping Fong Acting Troupe
《Derrick Wei × Der Schönste Moment》／The Puppet & Its Double Theater
《Five Clowns and A Chair 》／Theatre De La Sardine
2009 National Theatre Young Stars New Vision《Clear Life》／Vera CHEN, Director & Performer
The 14th Crown Art Festival《The Two of Us》／Comedians Workshop II
Op. 19《Touch Me, If You Can》／Creative Society Theatre Company
《Beauty & Beast》／Tainaner Ensemble
《Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Coat 》New Version of Nanquan Kunqu／Xin Xin Nanquan Ensemble
Jade Y.Chen Taiwanese Literary Award Theatre 《Mazu's Bodyguards》／CKS Cultural Center, Organizer; Jade Y. Chen, Director
2009 New Idea Series 《The Archetype of Ant Hole 》／Mobius Strit Theatre
《Fight Me Now!》／M. O. V. E Theatre Group
2009 Life of Love／Tainaner Ensemble
The 14th Crown Art Festival《The Island》EX-Theare Asia／Dance Forum, Organizer; Fa and Ming-shuai SHIH, Performers
《Bond》 (a Bangzi opera adaptation of The Merchant of Venice )／Taiwan Bangzi Company
2009 New Idea Series 《Dreams of Manuscript 》／CKS Cultural Center, Organizer; Katherine H. CHOU, Playwright; Yi-Hsiu LEE, Director
New Idea Series 《The Dream Digger》／1/2Q Theatre
2009 Shih-San WU's Recital 《NÉOPERCUSME》／Shih-San WU
《Christian Lindberg & TCO》 ／En SHAO, Conductor; Christian Linberg, Trombonist; National Chinese Orchestra
《The Virtuous Mother of General Tao Kan》／CKS Cultural Center, Organizer; Chiung-chih LIAO, Mei Yun TANG, Xiao Mi and Hui-jun SHIH, Performers
《Saxophonist Claude Delangle & TCO》／Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Self Recommended Entries Which Pass the Preliminary Review
《Entrance》／Diabolo Dance Theatre
《Step In‧Happening 2009— Site-specific Creative Dance Performance》／Scarecrow Contemporary Dance Company
Category: Visual Arts
《Animamix Biennial ─ Visual Attract & Attack》／Victoria Lu & Maple LIN (Curator)
《Viewpoints & Viewing points —2009 Asian Art Biennial》／Chao-yi TSAI (Curator)
《$1.99 lb. Tang Tang-Fa Solo Exhibition》／Tang-Fa TANG
《The LiQUiD STATE - Jing-yuan CHEN's Solo Exhibition》／Jing-yuan CHEN
《2009 Hweilan International Artists Workshop Exhibition》／Sheau-shei PAN & Li-ch WANG
《Material World in the Amis Tribe of Riverbank》 ／Chien-ming LU & Su-chen HSU
《Yi-Chen HUNG's Solo Exhibition－Transcript》／
Nominees for 3rd Quarter
July 1st ~ September 30th, 2009
Nominees for 3rd Quarter
Category: Performing Arts
《What a TONE!》/ Taipei Chinese Orchestra & CloudGate 2
《Heroine》/ Wen-Chi SU
《Electron》/ 8213 Physical Dance Theater
《Happiness Part III — Forget Me Not》/ Golden Bough Theatre
《Another Assignment》/ Assigntheatre Theatre
《The Journey: Jennifer Ya-Ting Wang's Percussion Theatre》/ Ya-ting WANG
Category: Visual Arts
《Distance in Memory ─ Chen Shun-Chu New Works Exhibition》 / Shun-chu CHEN
《The Simple Arts of Parody》 / Yung-fen HU (Curator)
《2009 Exhibition of Abugy – Floating Zero》 / Abugy
《Tzong-yo TSAI's Solo Exhibition》 / Tzong-yo TSAI
《Chien-chang CHENG's Solo Exhibition》 / Chien-chang CHENG
《World Mystery》 / Ting-yu WANG
《Self Modification》 / Jo-hung TANG
《Look Toward The Other Side – Song of Asian Foreign Brides in Taiwan III》 / Lulu Shur-tzy HOU
《Looking Up! Looking Down! 》 / Tzu-chieh CHIEN (Curator)
《2009 Keywords: Everydayness, Sculpture, Non-Place》 / Juming Museum & Tzu-chieh CHIEN (Curator)
《Buh-Ching HWANG's Solo Exhibition》 / Buh-ching HWANG
《SOFT Revolt》 / VT Artsalon
Nominees for 2nd Quarter
April 1st ~ June 30, 2009
Nominees for 2nd Quarter
Category: Performing Arts
《The Journey of the Monkey King》 / Chai Found Music Workshop
《Once, Upon Hearing the Skin Tone》 / Shakespeare's Wild Sisters Group
《The New He-Zhu's New Match》 / National CKS Cultural Center, Langling 30 Organizing Committee
《He Is My Wife, He Is My Mother》 / Creative Society
《2012》 / Mobius Strip Theatre
《Spring Riot》 / CloudGate2
《Design for Living》 / Director: Edward Lam, Script writer: Sylvia Chang
《Loop Me》 / Curator: Tony Chun-hui WU, Dancer: Wen-chi SU
《Beatbox》 / Ju Percussion Group
《Farewell My Concubine》 / National Chinese Orchestra
《Choirs for Tomorrow》/ Script write: Hui-min TUAN, Director: Hui-min TUAN and Hsin-i LIN
《The Glamorous Match》 / Pei-Ching Wu and Jenny Lin
Category: Visual Arts
Place / Arial KUO
I Love Taiwan and Love Southern Taiwan Even More / Ming-tse LEE
I Am The Sun / Ming-hong LIN
I Am Pluto, Yo! / Yu-hsien SU
Plant-Matter NeoEden: Born in a Garden / Su-chen HSU and Chien-ming LU
The Echo On The Edge /Tzu-yun WANG
Image/playing / I-ting HOU
Memories of Mickey / Chien-yi CHEN
Scene of Light / Kai-yu CHUANG
2009 Happy Bubble Life / Pei-shih TU
The 8th Taishin Arts Award
Nominees for 1st Quarter January 1st ~ March 31st, 2009
The 8th Taishin Arts Award
Category: Visual Arts
Mind As Passion: A Video Art Exhibition Featuring 17 New-Generation Artists from Taiwan and Japan / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Su-Wen HSIAO (Curator)
Fever Dark -- Yu-chin TSENG's Solo Exhibition / Yu-Chin TSENG
Neo Kaohsiung Wave – Post Industrial / Shui-Tsai CHEN (Curator)
Neo Kaohsiung Wave – Liberty-Technique / Shih-Chen CHAO (Curator)
Chun-Ming HOU's Solo Exhibition / Chun-Ming HOU
Squid V -- The King of Seafood Will Be Back Fighting / Cheng-Che SHIH, Chi-Yu WU, Cheng-Liang LI, Chih-Ying PENG, Liang-Hsuan CHEN, Shang-Wei HUANG, Hsiao-Shu CHANG, Ching-Yuan CHEN, Chien-Yi CHU
An Exhibition of Chinese Calligraphy by Grace Y. T. TONG / Grace Y. T. TONG
Irdina─Li-ren CHANG's Solo Exhibition / Li-Ren CHANG
Category: Performing Arts
《Murder in a Snowbound Inn》/ Formosa-Zephyr Opera Troupe
《Orlando》/ National CKS Cultural Center (Organizer), Guo-Guang Opera Company (Co-Producer), Hai-ming WEI (Performer)
《Shakespeare Unplugged IV— The Two Gentlemen of Verona》/ Tainan Jen Theatre
《Farewell My Girl》/ Creative Society Theatre Company
《Les Noces》/ Century Contemporary Dance Company
TCO New Energy Series IV《Taipei Science Fiction》/ Taipei Chinese Orchestra
NSO Forever Tales《The Mice War》/ National Symphony Orchestra
