鄭慧華

鄭慧華,1970年出生於台灣台北,是獨立策展人暨藝術評論者,目前生活和工作於台灣台北。1996年於台灣師範大學美術史系研究所取得碩士學位。1997年至1999年於台灣輔仁大學擔任西洋美術史兼任講師。2000年至2005年,她旅居加拿大溫哥華,期間任台灣《今藝術》雜誌特約作者,現為該雜誌特約主筆。近年藝術評論文章散見於:《今藝術》、《現代美術》(台北市立美術館出版)、《YiShu:Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art》和《當代藝術與投資》等中英文期刊。
鄭慧華2003年開始策劃展覽,包括:「看不見的城市」(溫哥華亞洲當代藝術中心,2003),「穿越─廢墟與文明」(台北,2004)、共同策劃2004台北雙年展「在乎現實嗎?」、「疆界」(台北,2006)、「寶藏巖泡茶照相館/第五階段/勘誤:葉偉立、吳語心之個人與共同創作」(溫哥華亞洲當代藝術中心,2008),以及「親歷幻見」(台北立方計劃空間,2010)等。2009年,她進行為期一年的「 批判性政治藝術創作及策展實踐研究 」計劃,成立相關網站並出版《藝術與社會─當代藝術家專文與訪談 》專書。2010年,她與台灣音樂文化評論者羅悅全於台北共同成立「立方計劃空間」,旨在深耕在地文化、建立與藝術創作者的長期合作關係、推動台灣當代藝術與國際之對話與連結。
2011年,鄭慧華策劃2011年威尼斯雙年展台灣館:「聽見,以及那些未被聽見的─台灣社會聲音圖景」(The Herad and The Unheard─Soundscape Taiwan)(威尼斯,2011)及國家文化藝術基金會年度策展專案「重見/建社會」(台北,2011. 12-2013. 2),並與羅悅全於立方計劃空間主辦一系列聲音─文化系列講演「聲音與時代」(Sound of the Times)(2010-)。

郭昭蘭

郭昭蘭,出生於台灣,是獨立策展人兼藝術評論者,目前生活於台灣台北。2006年於台灣師範大學西洋藝術史研究所取得博士學位。1996年至2008年,她曾任教於華梵大學美術系; 2008年至2011年間,於台灣藝術大學美術系擔任兼任副教授,教授現代藝術史與當代藝術導論。她的博士論文「1960年代的羅森柏格的藝術:朝向後現代」從酷兒研究,後現代,跨領域,等面向探測羅森柏格藝術與1980年代的美國後現代評論之間的交匯。

雖然接受的是藝術史的訓練,郭昭蘭的研究對象逐漸朝向當代藝術的領域,特別是與視覺文化相關的當代藝術研究。他策劃過的展覽包括
1. CO6前衛文件展中的「複音馬賽克」(台中國家美術館,2006)
2. 「0與1的練習題」(台北e-2000茶館,2008)
3. 「非典:漂浮於典型之上」(台北,2008)
4.「未來的鄉愁」(台中,2009)
5. 「離魂症:幻影神遊者」(台北,2010)
6. 「樂園:重建中」(ISCP, New York,2011)
7. 「台灣當代藝術(TCA計畫)」(ISCP, New York,2011)
2011年郭昭蘭獲選文建會視覺暨表演人才出國駐村暨交流計畫,於紐約Iscp(International Studio and Curatorial Program)藝術村進行為期4個月的駐村計畫,並完成「台灣當代藝術(TCA計畫)」。這是一個以展演性的策展行為(performative curating)探測策展疆界的實驗性展覽,試圖透過藝術家作者權的借用,探討身分認同的界限。



Amy Cheng

Independent curator and art critic Amy Cheng (b. 1970) lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. She received an MA from the Graduate Institute of Art History at National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), and from 1997 to 1999 served as a lecturer of the history of Western art at Fu Jen Catholic University (Taipei). From 2000 to 2005 Cheng lived in Vancouver, Canada, and served as a feature writer for Taiwan’s ARTCO Monthly magazine, where she currently works as a lead feature writer. Her art criticism has appeared in Chinese- and English-language journals including Modern Art, YiShu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Contemporary Art & Investment.
Cheng has curated numerous exhibitions, including: Invisible City (2003) and THTP/Phase Five/Oversight/2008 at the Vancouver Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Ruins and Civilization (2004) at the Eslite Space in Taipei, the 2004 Taipei Biennial: Do you Believe in Reality? (co-curated), Altered States (2006) at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Traversing the Fantasy (2010) at Taipei's TheCube Project Space and The Heard and The Unheard─Soundscape Taiwan, Taiwan Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2011).
In 2009, Cheng undertook the one-year project Critical Political Art and Curatorial Practice Research, for which she established a website and contributed to and edited the publication Art and Society: Introducing Seven Contemporary Artists. With music and cultural critic Jeph Lo, she founded Taipei’s TheCube Project Space in 2010, which aims to explore local culture, establish long-term relationships with artists, and promote contemporary art exchanges between Taiwan and the international community. Cheng has co-organized series panels Sound of the Times.


Jan-lan Guo

Independent curator and art critic Jau-lan Guo was born in Taiwan and lives in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2006 she completed her Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. Guo taught in the Department of Fine Arts, Huafan University from 1996 to 2008 and was adjunct associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts from 2008 to 2011. She taught history of modern art and contemporary art. Her Doctoral Dissertation "Robert Rauschenberg's Art in the 1960s: Toward Postmodern" examines how the American postmoderntheorists and art critics transplanted French theories through analyzing Rauschenberg's art.
Trained as an art historian, Guo’s studies and projects have extended to the visual culture related issues in contemporary art. So far she has curated seven major exhibitions, they are:
1. Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Garde Documenta (National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan), 2006
2. Exercise of 0 and 1, 2008
3. Anti-type: Floating over the Stereotype, 2008
4. Nostalgia for Future, 2009
5. Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010
6. Paradise: Under RE-Construction (ISCP, New York), 2011
7. Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project) (ISCP, New York), 2011

In 2011 Jau-Lan Guo was selected by Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs for curator-in-residence in New York, an exchange program with Iscp(International Studio and Curatorial Program). During the four months of her residency, she organized the Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project), an experiment of “performative curating” which approached the limitations of curatorship as well as the effectiveness of identity through borrowing the authorship from the participating artists.