Wei-Hsiu Tung

Academic Experience

01/2023- Professor
Department of Visual Art & Design (full-time)
National University of Tainan College of Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

08/2004-01/2023 Associate Professor
Department of Visual Art & Design (full-time)
National University of Tainan College of Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

09/2010-08/2011 Visiting Research Fellow in Public Art (full-time) The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design
London Metropolitan University, UK

02/2005-07/2005 Assistant Professor Public Art and Cultural Environment (part-time) Tainan National University of the Arts
Graduate Institute of Architecture
Tainan, Taiwan

08/2003-01/2004 Assistant Professor Acting Head of Department Art and Design Theory (full-time) Chien-Kuo Institute of Technology
Department of Commercial Design
Chang-Hwa, Taiwan

2002 Research Fellow (part-time)
Project: “Creative Programming in Reuse of Space: An International Perspective”
Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan

Education:

Doctorate (PhD, 13/06/2003)
Social Anthropology of Art
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
Birmingham City University (UCE), UK

Master of Arts (MA, 14/01/2000)
Art and Design Education
Department of Art & Design Education
University of Warwick, UK

Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons, 01/07/1997)
Primary Education (Art)
Department of Primary Education
National Dong Hwa University
(National Hualien Teacher’s College),
Hualien, Taiwan

Awards:

Full Doctoral Scholarship (2000-2003)
Arts Research and Social Environment
National Culture and Art Foundation
Taipei, Taiwan

External Examinations:

2019 MA, Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
2018-2019 PhD thesis, Institute of Creative Industries Design, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
2014 Ph.D thesis, Institute of Graduate Studies, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
2011-2014 MA, Graduate Program of Visual Art Education, National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan
2008 MA, Graduate School of Early Education (Art), National University of Tainan, Taiwan
2005 MA, Graduate School of Technology Development and Communication, National University of Tainan, Taiwan
2005 MA, School of Plastic Arts, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan

Research Supervision:

• Socially-engaged art
• Concepts and practices in artist-in-residence schemes
• Public art
• Community art
• Taiwanese art
• Sociology of art
• Theory of contemporary art practice
• Environmental aesthetics
• Art and design education

Research Funding Awards:

2019 “Environmental Aesthetics in Taiwan: Revival through Social Art Practices,” The 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Leiden University, 16-19, July, 2019, Taiwan National Science Council Conference Funding & Travel Grant (c.2600 Euro)
2018-19 Collaborator of “Sea-centric Forms of Socially Engaged Art (SEA): Critical Re-Imagination of Intercultural Flow in the Kuroshio Current,” Yale-NUS College , National University of Singapore, Pocket Research Grant
2018-19 Curator, “Remembering the Glorious Days of the Military Veterans’ Villages,” The Shiujiaoshe Theater Exhibition Hall, commissioned by Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, Taiwan: 2 million NTD c. £50000 project award
2018 “The Educational Perspectives of Socially Engaged Art,” 2018 International Society of Education through Art Conference, Hong Kong University of Education, 8-10 December, 2018, National University of Tainan Conference Funding & Travel Grant (c. 300 Euro)
2018 “Military Dependents’ Villages as Heritage Sites: Tracing Collective Memory and Diaspora History in Shuijiaoshe Village,” Association of Critical Heritage Studies World Congress, Zhejiang University, Hangzhu, China, 1-6, September], Taiwan National Science Council Conference Funding & Travel Grant (c. 1200 Euro)
2018 Exhibition Supervisor, “Special Exhibition on Deaf Culture: Deaf People Can do Anything,” Cultural Affairs Bureau and National Museum of Taiwan Literature, as part of Tainan Museum Festival 200000NTD c. £5000 project award
2017 Recipient of publication project funded by Nation Arts and Culture Foundation, 《美學逆襲: 當代藝術的社會實踐》,台北:藝術家 [The Challenge of Aesthetics: Social Practice in Contemporary Art, (Taipei: Artist Publishing Co.)] (150000NTD, c. 4300 Euro)
2017 “Relation, Collaboration and Conversation As Artistic Intervention For Environmental Awakening and Revival,” 2017 College of Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA, 15-18 February: Taiwan National Science Council Conference Funding & Travel Grant (c.2300 Euro)
2016 “Collective Memories and Anti-globalization:Artistic Community Intervention in Taiwan,” 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul, Korea, 24-29 July, International Association of Aesthetics & Seoul National University Honorarium 500 USD
2016 “Artistic Intervention for Environmental Awakening and Revival: Case Studies in Taiwan,” 2016 Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2016/3/31-4/3, Seattle, USA: National University of Tainan Conference Funding & Travel Grant (c.600 Euro)

Publications:

Authored books

2019 《美學逆襲:當代藝術的社會實踐》,台北:藝術家
[The Challenge of Aesthetics: Social Practice in Contemporary Art, (Taipei: Artist Publishing Co.)], 177 pp. (Publication project funded by National Culture and Arts Foundation) (ISBN978-986-282-229-6), Publication project funded by Nation Arts and Culture Foundation, 175 pp.
https://www.books.com.tw/products/0010812207
http://www.artist-magazine.com/product_d.php?lang=tw&tb=3&id=8346
Impact:
This is a thought-provoking book that brings both theoretical frameworks and case studies into light. Tung’s book explores the perspectives of social practice in contemporary art from within Western and East Asian contexts. It also adds significant perspectives on education and civil activism. This book is worth reading for practitioners of interdisciplinary art and researchers concerned with the relation of art to the development of communities.
— Mali Wu, Director of Graduate School of interdisciplinary Arts, National Normal University of Kaohsiung, Recipient of the 19th National Awards of Art, Taiwan 2016 and Taishin Art Award, Taiwan 2013

The Challenge of Aesthetics: Social Practice in Contemporary Art is a book that shows that contemporary art practice is not about creating miracles or works of genius; it is about the stories of “communities self-awakening and being fulfilled, as well as receiving support from the ‘outside’.” For Wei Hsiu Tung, the “Plum Tree Creek,” “Togo Village,” and “Mirage” projects, amongst others, all epitomize contemporary art practice in terms of social engagement, care for the environment, civil discussion or education, and resistance to urban gentrification. Beside the usual references to Bishop, Lacy, Kester and Bourriaud, Tung’s The Challenge of Aesthetics provides Chinese language readers of studies on social practice art with a local perspective as well as worldview from within the self-reflective framework of Taiwan.
— Jow-Jiun Gong, Director of Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory Tainan National University of Arts, Taiwan

2017 《當代藝術的社會實踐: 迎向真實與改變的力量》,台北:全華出版社 (ISBN978-986-463-454-5) [The Social Practice of Contemporary Art: Towards the Reality and Power of Change (Taipei: Quan Hua Publishing Company)], 184 pp.

2013 Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening: An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan (Lanham, USA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), 204 pp. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739165843
Review: ‘The Dialectics of Artistic Residence’, Joseph Eaton, Taiwan Review (04/01/201 http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?ctNode=1446&xItem=215345&mp=1
Impact:
Wei Hsiu Tung’s innovative new tome deftly explores how the “artistic residence” or “artist-in-residence” in Taiwan is no longer confined in large part to reflecting on Taiwanese culture and society but instead serves as a key contributor to cultural interpretation, awakening, and change. Employing a vital cross-cultural perspective, comparing the artistic residence in Taiwan with that in Britain, Tung adds important perspectives to this global phenomenon. Interviews with painters, photographers, sculptors, and other artists who have created art not for museums or galleries but instead to “speak to mass audiences,” add significantly to the depth and breadth of this study. Examining as well the concrete implications for artists-in-residence endeavors in Taiwan, especially as concerns how artists integrate the pulls of the local and the global, Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening represents an important contribution to Asian studies.
— Karen L. Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

This book examines the practice of artists-in-residence in Taiwan, via an engaging treatment of art and artists as seen from the perspective of the embodied eye of anthropology and through juxtaposition with Britain. The volume sheds new light on Taiwan since the lifting of martial law, exploring not only governmental support for art and artists but also processes of democracy and identity as they have unfolded in a cultural and aesthetic history that is both Asian and European, indigenous and Chinese, modern and post-modern. The book is accessible and original, and should be essential reading for all those interested in Taiwanese culture and society since the transition to democracy. Particularly striking is the way the author weaves together identity and art as the unfinished, mutable, and invented productions of relational rather than egoistic complexes.
— Fang-long Shih, Co-Director, LSE Taiwan Research Programme, London School of Economics

Wei-Hsiu Tung’s Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening marks a significant advance in East-Asian cultural studies. While much has been said about relational and interventionist art in Western and trans-national contexts, this is the first major book-length study to address similar forms of artistic practice in Taiwan. Tung’s extended anthropological meditation on artistic residency is indispensable reading not only for those with a specific interest in contemporary Taiwanese art, but also anyone concerned with the wider implications of the relationship between
culture and globalization.
— Paul Gladston, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham

This is an atypical study in art…it focuses on artists in residence as a community…engaged in the shaping of currents and values reflective of changing times. The author emphasizes in particular the ongoing importance of cultural identity in these deeper introspections and debates. By invoking an anthropological approach, the emphasis is really on the experiential aspects of artistic production. The practice of residential communities is perhaps not unlike the seminal role that Jürgen Habermas attributed to salons in the structural transformation of the public sphere. For all these reasons, this monograph should be of interest to scholars not only in art but also cultural studies in general and critically minded students of all kinds working on contemporary
Asia and elsewhere.
— Allen Chun, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Wei Hsiu Tung’s Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening: An Anthropology of Residence in Taiwan offers insightful perspectives on Taiwan’s democratization and globalization through the lens of the visual arts, specifically artists’ engagement with society through artistic residences. … Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening is both fascinating and well worth reading.
— Taiwan Review

2010 《藝術的社會衝擊: 本土v.s.國際經驗的觀察與探討》,國家文化藝術基金會指導出版,供學出版社, (ISBN 978-986-6425-127) [The Social Impacts of Art: Studies of Local and International Experience (National Culture and Arts Foundation, Tainan: Gong-Xue Publishing Company)], 120 pp.

Book chapters

2019 ‘文化創意空間與藝術的社會實踐’於《文化創意空間.商品》,台北: 五南,pp. 39-68。[‘Creative Cultural Space and artistic Social Practice’ in Creative Cultural Space and Product, Taipei: Wunan]
2011 〈生命中的對話與連結〉,《女力與韌性:婚姻、家庭、姊妹情誼》,國立成功大學性別與婦女研究中心出版,pp.133-142. ISBN 978-957-11-6304-8 [‘Dialogue and Connection in Life’ in Woman Power and Flexibility: Marriage, Family and Sisterhood (Center for Gender and Woman Studies, National Cheng Kung University)]
2009 〈結合生活經驗與性別議題的通識教育「視覺藝術欣賞」教學實踐〉,《優質通識課程與教學創新人文與藝術教育篇》,教育部補助重要特色領域人才培育計畫,中華醫事科技大學通識教育中心出版,pp. 211-235. ISBN 978-986-83252-7-2 [‘Combing Life Experience and Gender Issues in the Teaching of Visual Art Appreciation in General Education’, in Teaching Innovation in Courses of General Education: Arts and Humanity Education (Ministry of Education and Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology)]
2009 〈改變的力量─從「米倉藝術家社區」看藝術與在地社群生活的結合〉,《在社區營造藝術》,97年教育部補助重要特色領域人才培育改進計畫—公共藝術人才培育計畫,臺南藝術大學出版,pp.140-148. ISBN 978-986-02-2045-2 [‘The Power of Change: Seeing Association of Art and Local Community from the Practice of Rice Storage Artists’ Community’, in Construction of Art in Community (Ministry of Education & National Tainan University of Arts)]
2005 ‘De-constructing the Practice of Artist-in-Residence: Reflections on Local Culture and Internationalism’, in Taiwan Artist Village Directory, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei,
pp. 18-21. ISBN 986-00-0629-6
2001 〈伯明翰珠寶產業特區〉,專文收錄於《文化空間創意再造》,蕭麗虹/黃瑞茂計畫主持,行政院文化建設委員會出版, pp. 120-123. ISBN 957-01-2658-2 [‘The Birmingham Jeweler Quarter’, in Creative Programming in Reuse of Spaces: An International Perspective, Taipei: Council for Cultural Affairs]

Peer-reviewed journals

2018 “When Social Practice Art Overcomes Globalization: Attending to Environment and Locality in Taiwan,” Culture and Dialogue, Vol.6. No.2, pp. 233-250 (Brill, Netherlands ISSN2222-3282)
2017 〈合作對話與師生共學的藝術課堂︰13號工作室藝術家進駐計劃的實踐與啟示〉,《藝術研究學報》,第十卷第一期,國立臺南大學,頁45-58 (National University of Tainan, ISSN 2070-3589) [“Collaboration, Dialogue and Collective Learning between Teacher and Student: The Implications of ‘Room 13 International’ Artist-in-Residence Scheme in Art Education,” in Journal of Performing and Visual Arts Studies, Vol. 10, No.1, pp. 45-58]
2015 〈擴大的界域:藝術介入社會公眾領域〉,《藝術論衡》,復刊第七期,國立成功大學,2015, 頁95-108。(National Cheng-kung University, ISSN 2073-2384 ) [“An Expanded Field: Artistic Intervention into Public Sphere,” in Art Forum, No.7, pp.95-108]
2013 〈藝術介入社群:社會參與式的藝術美學與實踐〉,《藝術研究學報》 第6卷第2期,臺南:國立臺南大學,頁27-37。(National University of Tainan) [“Art Intervention into Community: A Socially Engaged Aesthetics and Art Practice,” in Vol.6, No.2, Journal of Performing and Visual Arts Studies, Tainan, pp.27-37]
2012 “The Return of the Real: Art and Identity in Taiwan’s Public Sphere,” in Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 11, Nos. 2 & 3 , pp. 157-172 (Intellect, UK ISSN 14702029)
2009 “Art as Cultural System: Towards a New Genre of Artist-in-Residence,” in The Journal of Asian Art & Aesthetics, Vol. 2, pp. 83-88 (Airiti Press, Taiwan ISSN 2071-655-9)
2009 〈藝術進駐計畫–當代藝術家的美學漫遊〉,《美學藝術學》,第四期,臺北:臺灣美學藝術學學會,pp. 181-193 (Airiti Press, Taiwan, ISSN 1683-6057) [“Artist-in-Residence Schemes: The Aesthetic Voyage of Contemporary Artist,” in Aesthetics and Art Science, Vol.4, The Taiwan Association of Aesthetics and Art Science, Taipei]
2007 〈文化與社群參與的藝術能量:米倉藝術家社區藝術家進駐計畫〉,《藝術論壇》,第二期,國立嘉義大學人文藝術學院美術學系/視覺藝術研究所,嘉義,pp. 5-20 (National Cha-Yi University, Taiwan, ISBN 978-986-01-0772-2) [“The Power of Art for Local Culture and Community Engagement:Rice Storage Artists’ Communities,” in Art Forum, Vol.2, Graduate School of Fine Arts, College of Arts and Humanity, National Cha-Yi University, Cha-Yi, Taiwan]
2002 “Cultural Exchange in Artist-in-Residence and International Art,” in The Cutting Edge, Vol.4, Internationalism and Arts of Cross-Culture, 2002, Peterborough School of Art(s), University of Leicester, England, UK, pp. 31-35 (ISSN 1366-8005)

Other journals

2019 〈真實與改變的力量:社會參與性藝術創作在台灣〉,碧山雜誌書,第11期 (即將出版)(中信出版社) [ “The Power of Reality and Change: Socially-engaged Art in Taiwan,” Bi Shan, Vol.11](forthcoming)
2018 〈「以聾為榮」特展的社會參與藝術實踐〉,《國立台灣文學館通訊》,第59 期,2018/06,頁18-22. [“Socially-engaged Art Practice in ‘Deaf People Can Do Anything’,” in Special Exhibition, Newsletter of Taiwan Literature Museum, No.59, June 2018, pp.18-22]
2017 “Art and aesthetic environmental awakening at Plum Tree Creek,” Institute of International Asian Studies Newsletter, 2017 Spring Issue, p.31
2016 〈當代藝術去神殿化:從關係美學談當代藝術的觀眾參與及對話〉,《藝術認證》,No.67, pp. 46-53。[“Relational Aesthetics and the Audience Participation in Contemporary Art,” in Art Accrediting, Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, No.67, pp. 46-53] ISSN 1816-3157
2005 〈歷史的質感: 論臺灣的閒置空間再利用〉,《文化視窗》,第82期,2005年12 行政院文化建設委員會出版,pp. 20-26 [“Historical Quality: Reuse of Discarded Spaces in Taiwan,” in Windows of Culture, Vol. 82, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei] ISSN 1562-7985
2001 〈國際視覺藝術中心 (inIVA) 藝術家駐地計畫〉,《藝術99》,專輯7,行政院文化建設委員會藝術村籌備處出版,pp. 18-23 [“Artist-in-residence schemes in the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA),” Art 99, Issue 7, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei] ISBN 957-029-1427
2001 〈歷史的質感: 論臺灣的閒置空間再利用異文化交流:藝術家進駐與新國際主義〉,《藝術99》,專輯8,行政院文化建設委員會藝術村籌備處出版,pp. 44-47 [“Experiencing Cultural Exchange: Artist-in-Residence Schemes and International Art,” Art99, Issue 8, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei] ISBN 957-029-9827

Proceedings

2004 “Art as Cultural System: Towards a New Genre of Artist-in-Residence,” in Proceedings of the 2004 International Design Forum and the 9th Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
2004 “Art for Social Engagement: Implications for Art Critics in the Process and Practice of Artist-in-Residence Schemes,” in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Historical Buildings and Art Space, International Association of Art Critics (AICA) – 2004 World Congress, Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
2008 〈藝術的社會衝擊:英國社群藝術與文化政策〉,《在地美學實踐—社區v.s. 藝術研討會》,國家文藝基金會,台北:國立台灣大學。pp. 214-222. [“The Social Impact of Art: Community Art and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom,” in Proceeding of Local Practice of Aesthetics—Community v.s. Art Conference, organized by Arts and Cultural Foundation, National Taiwan University, Taipei]
2009 〈結合生活經驗與性別議題得視覺藝術欣賞教學實踐〉,《2009通識藝術教育課程與教學研討會論文集》,臺北:國立臺北藝術大學,pp. 285-306. [“Integrating Life Experience and Gender Issues on the Teaching of Visual Arts Appreciation,” in Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Curriculum and Teaching for General Education, Taipei: National Taipei University of Art]

Conference Papers and Presentations:

2019 “From Social Art Practice to the Awakening of Environmental Aesthetics: The Case Study of Qijin Kitchen,” Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art Annual Conference Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China, Tate Liverpool, 11-12 November, 2019 (forthcoming)
2019 “Environmental Aesthetics in Taiwan: Revival through Social Art Practice,” The 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars, Leiden University, Netherlands, 16-19, July, 2019 (forthcoming)
2019 “South as Turn: The Re-definition of ‘South’ in the Concept of Modern East Asia,” Panelist, 24-25 June, 2019, Tainan Art Museum
2018 〈從教育觀點看社會參與式藝術〉,2018國際藝術教育協會亞洲區(香港)暨第七屆世界華人美術教育大會,香港教育大學, 2018/12/8-12/10
[“The Educational Perspectives of Socially Engaged Art,” 2018 International Society of Education through Art Conference, Hong Kong University of Education, 8-10 December, 2018]
2018 “Military Dependents’ Villages as Heritage Sites: Tracing Collective Memory and Diaspora History in Shuijiaoshe Village,” Association of Critical Heritage Studies World Congress, Zhejiang University, Hangzhu, China, 1-6, September], Trip funded by National Science Council
2018 為文化醒覺而藝術:解嚴後的藝術家進駐計畫與台灣認同,台灣藝術史研究年會暨學術研討會,台灣師範大學,2018年3月24日-3月25日。 [“Art for Cultural Awakening: Artist-in-Residence Schemes and Taiwanese Identity after Revocation of Martial Law,” Annual Conference of Taiwan Art History Association, National Normal University, 24-25 March, 2018]
2017 在檔案記錄與藝術行動之間: 《海市蜃樓:台灣閒置公共設施抽樣踏查》計畫 ,藝術對 話與創意之「檔案、文獻/重現、展示」研討會,國立成功大學,2017年11月25日。[“Between File Documentation and Activism through Art: ‘Mirage: Disused Public Properties in Taiwan’,” Dialogue in Art and Creativity – “File, Representation, Display” Conference, National Cheng-Kung University, 25 November, 2017]
2017 “Relation, Collaboration and Conversation As Artistic Intervention For Environmental Awakening and Revival,” 2017 College of Art Association Annual Conference, New York, USA, 15-18 February
2016 “Collective Memories and Anti-globalization:Artistic Community Intervention in Taiwan,” 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul, Korea, 24-29 July
2016 “Artistic Intervention for Environmental Awakening and Revival: Case Studies in Taiwan,” 2016 Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2016/3/31-4/3, Seattle, USA
2016 〈合作對話與師生共學的藝術課堂:英國13號工作室藝術家進駐計劃在學校教育的實踐〉,教育部藝術與人文教育學習領域教學研究研討會,國立臺南大學, 2016年5月22日
[“Collaboration, Dialogue and Collective Learning between Teacher and Student: The Implications of ‘Room 13 International’,” Researching in Teaching of Arts and Humanity Conference, Ministry of Education in National University of Tainan, 22 May]
2015 〈關係、對話與情境─ 做為跨領域與文化交流的藝術家進駐計劃〉,「再談藝術的公共性:朝向『人人都是藝術家』之後」研討會,高雄師範大學跨領域藝術研究所,2015 年11月19日-11月20日 [“Relation, Dialogue and Situation: Artist-in-Residence Schemes as Practice of Interdisciplinary and Cultural Exchange,” Revisiting the “Publicness” of Art: After “Everyone is an Artist” Conference, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Art Practice, 19-20 November]
2015 “Artistic Collaboration into Communities for Environmental Aesthetics in Taiwan,” In Dialogue – Culture and the Environment International Forum, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan, 1 August
2014 “Art for Cultural Awakening: A New Genre of Artist-in-Residence Schemes in the Taiwanese Public Sphere,” Association for Asian Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, 16-18 July
2013 藝術介入空間:人、文化與環境的想像共同體於高雄市立美術館, AICA 聯合國藝評人協會(台灣分會)年會. [“Art’s Intervention into Public Sphere: Imagining Communities of People, Culture and Environment,” Conference of International Association of Art Critics, UNESCO, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan] October, 2013
2011 “The Return of the Real: Art in the Public Sphere in Taiwan,” Symposium, Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University, UK, 30 June
2009 藝術介入社群:社會參與式的藝術實踐,於2009視覺藝術研討會, 國立臺南大學,臺南. [“Art Intervention into the Community: A Socially Engaged Art Practice,” 2009 Visual Art Conference, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan], 17 December
2009 結合生活經驗與性別議題得視覺藝術欣賞教學實踐,2009通識藝術教育課程與教學研討會 , 臺北:國立臺北藝術大學. [“Integrating Life Experience and Gender Issues on the Teaching of ‘Visual Arts Appreciation’,” 2009 Conference on Curriculum and Teaching for General Education, National University of Taipei, Taiwan] 26-27,May, 2009
2008 藝術的社會衝擊:英國社群藝術與文化政策,《在地美學實踐—社區v.s.藝術研討會》,國家文藝基金會,台北:國立台灣大學. [“The Social Impact of Art: Community Art and Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom,” Local Practice of Aesthetics – Community v.s. Art Conference, organized by Arts and Cultural Foundation, National Taiwan University, Taipei] 26-28, September, 2009
2008 藝術家進駐計畫:當代藝術家的美學漫遊,《文化研究學會2008年會:樂生怒活—風格運動、生活政治與私眾社會》,台北:文化大學大眾傳播學系. [“Artist-in-Residence Schemes: The Aesthetic Voyage of Contemporary Artist,” 2008 Annual Conference of Cultural Studies, Department of Mass Communication, Chinese Cultural University, Taipei, Taiwan] 5-6, January, 2008
2004 “Art for Social Engagement: Implications for Art Critics in the Process and Practice of Artist-in-Residence Schemes,” International Symposium on Historical Buildings and Art Space, International Association for Art Critics (AICA) – 2004 World Congress, Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan December, 2004
2004 “Art as Cultural System: Towards a New Genre of Artist-in-Residence,” 2004 International Design Forum and the 9th Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Design, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, May, 2004
2004 當代藝術創作做為一種社會文化之再現:以屏東米倉藝術家社區藝術家進駐計畫為例,《文化研究學會2003年會:靠文化,By Culture》,台北:東吳大學社會學系. 2004年1月3日-1月4日[“Art as A Socio-cultural Representation: Case Studies of Rice Storage Artists’ Community,” 2004 Annual Conference of Cultural Studies Association, Department of Sociology, Tong Wu University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3-4 January, 2004]
2001 “Artist-in-Residence and International Art,” Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK, December 2001

Curatorships:

2018-19 Remembering the Glorious Days of the Military Veterans’ Villages, The Shiujiaoshe Theater Exhibition Hall, commissioned by Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, Taiwan (Opening December 2019)
2010 Imagining Communities, mix-media exhibition, Art District of National University of Tainan, funded by Ministry of Education, Taipei, Taiwan (June)
2008 Gender Presentation and Ways of Seeing, mixed-media exhibition, Creative Media Gallery, Ksu-Shan University of Technology, funded by Ministry of Education, Taipei, Taiwan January 2008
2006 Placement/Displacement: The Narrative inside/outside Artist Studio, video-installation and digital art, Shin Bin Pier Art Space, Kaohsiung City, funded by National Arts and Culture Foundation, Taiwan Oct, 2006

Professional Consultancies & Community Contributions

2019 Nominator, “Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore 2020 Artist in Residence Program
2019 Review Committee, “American Air Force in Tainan” New Media Exhibition, Shuijiaoshe Cultural District, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government (台南市政府文化局水交社文化園區「美軍在台南」展覽館審查委員)
2018-present Curator and Review Committee, “The Shiujiaoshe Theater Exhibition Hall”, commissioned by Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government (台南市政府文化局水交社劇場展演館策展人)
2018 Exhibition Supervisor, “Special Exhibition on Deaf Culture: Deaf People Can do Anything,” Cultural Affairs Bureau and National Museum of Taiwan Literature, as part of Tainan Museum Festival (聾文化特展指導老師,台南市政府文化局、國立台灣文學館主辦, 2018台南博物館節)
2018-Present Committee member, Library of Tainan Art Museum (台南美術館圖書館委員)
2017 Review Committee (outdoor installation art project), Shuijiaoshe Cultural District, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government (台南市政府文化局水交社文化園區戶外裝置藝術審查委員)
2017 Review Committee for Museum of Street Art, Bureau of Urban Development, Tainan City Government (台南市政府都發局末廣町街道美術館審查委員)
2016 Invited Speaker, Arts Bilingual Pioneer Workshop, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan Cultural Center (臺南市文化中心「藝術雙語尖兵」培訓課程講員)
2016-present Editor in Chief, Journal of Performing and Visual Arts Studies(藝術研究學報) (peer-reviewed, National University of Tainan, Taiwan)
2015-2016 Researcher, Research Center of Teaching in Arts and Humanity, National University of Tainan, Ministry of Education (國立台南大學教育部國民小學師資培育聯盟藝術與人文教學研究中心研究員)
2012-present Editorial Board Member, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (peer-reviewed, Intellect, UK)
2010 Consultant, “Teaching Art in General Education” project (藝術類通識教育教學理念與實施模式探討), National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
2010 Committee Member, Board for Urban Design Projects, Urban Development Bureau (台南市政府都發局第10屆都市設計審議委員會), Tainan City Government, Taiwan
2009 Reviewer, Chen Yi(成藝學刊), Journal of the Graduate Institute of Art Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
2008 Facilitator, Association for International Art Critics (Taiwan Division), UNESCO
12/2006 Review Committee Member, Chayi Railway Artist Village (嘉義鐵道藝術村), Artist-in Residence Program, Chayi, Taiwan
2006 Convener, “Introducing Art Space of Tainan City” (workshop) (台南市藝術空間導覽研習工作坊), Taiwan
2005-2006 Consultant, Cultural Park of Cishan District, Kaohsiung Cultural Bureau (高雄縣文化局旗山鎮旗山生活文化園區委託經營管理), Taiwan
2004-2006 Research Consultant, Taiwan Artist Village Alliance (臺灣藝術村聯盟), Tainan, Taiwan
2003 International Coordinator, Triangle Art Trust Taiwan Residency Project, Gasworks Artists Studio, London, UK

Selected Art Exhibitions:

2019 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Visual Art and Design, National University, Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2018 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Visual Art and Design, National University, Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2017 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Visual Art and Design, National University, Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2016 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Visual Art and Design, National University, Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2014 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Visual Art and Design, National University, Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2013 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts, National University Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2012 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts, National University Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2010 Professors’ Group Exhibition of National University of Tainan, Cultural Center, Taiwan, March
2009 Two-person show, Château Gravas, France, (August)
2008 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Fine Arts, National University Tainan, Taiwan, (March)
2004 Professors’ Group Exhibition, Department of Arts and Craft Education, National Tainan Teachers College, Taiwan, (March)
1999 Wirkworth Art Festival, Art Initiative Group Exhibition, Wirkworth, UK, (September)