Esperanza Collado. 2021.
Experimental Film and Artistic Expansion in Taiwan and Asia-Pacific
This project was motivated by the discovery of the work of Su Huiyu, a Taiwanese multi-disciplinary artist I discovered in Oberhausen in May 2019. We were both —as well as Slovakian artist Magda Tóthová— invited to present lectures (or ‘performance-lectures’ as it was my case) on consecutive evenings as part of the well-known International Short
Film Festival, celebrated annually in the German city. Su delivered an artist talk focusing on his video work, in which he often re-narrate and reproduce old films, ancient publications and counter-cultural events. He talked quite extensively about Taiwan, its recent history, its process of democratisation, its long-standing disputed national identity and the so-called Taiwan Economic Miracle. I thought his work was risky and fascinating and it triggered in me great curiosity in Taiwan. When, one month later, I got an email in my UCLM inbox informing about a call for applications for Taiwan Fellowship, I contacted Oberhausen’s Festival director, Lars Henrik Gass, asking for Su Huiyu’s contact details. I wanted to research expanded cinema in Taiwan but I had no idea if there was an
experimental film ‘scene’ to start with in the island. Su is not an expert on this topic, he explained, but he was extremely generous in facilitating plenty of information that was very valuable for the elaboration of my application and for ‘imagining’ an expanded cinema in Taiwan at this early stage.
Collado, E. (2021). Experimental Film and Artistic Expansion in Taiwan and Asia-Pacific. Taipei Digital Art Centre y Taipei National University of the Arts.
Index
Acknowledgements 1
Precedents 3
Project Objectives 8
Method and Execution 10
Project Outcomes and Results 13
Publications, Presentations and Other Productions 20
Future Plans and Follow-ups 24
Fellow
Dr. Esperanza Collado
Associate Professor
Art History Department
Faculty of Fine Arts
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
mesperanza.collado@uclm.es
Host Institutions
Taipei Digital Art Centre
Taipei National University of the Arts
Dates of activity
2020/02/05 — 2020/09/18