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Who we are
Aesthetics Jam is a collaborative project curated by Hongjohn Lin and Henk Slager in consultation with Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the 2014 edition of the Taipei Biennial.
Henk Slager
Dean MaHKU (Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design), Visiting Professor of Artistic Research (Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki), and curator of a.o. Flash Cube (Leeum, Seoul, 2007), Translocalmotion (7th Shanghai Biennale 2008), Nameless Science (Apex Art, New York, 2009), Critique of Archival Reason (RHA Dublin 2010), As the Academy Turns (Collaborative project Manifesta, 2010), Any-medium-whatever (Georgian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011), TAR – Temporary Autonomous Research, (Amsterdam Pavilion, Shanghai Biennale 2012), Offside Effect (1st Tbilisi Triennial, 2012), The Judgment is the Mirror (Living Art Museum, Reykjavik 2013), Joyful Wisdom (Parallel project Istanbul Biennale, 2013), and Modernity 3.0. (NYU 80 WSE New York, 2014).
Hongjohn Lin
Artist, writer and curator, graduated from New York University with a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities. He has participated in international exhibitions, such as the Rotterdam Film festival (2008), the Asian Triennial in Manchester (2008), Taipei Biennale (2004), Taipei Biennial (2012) . He was the curator of the exhibition Atopia of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007 and Production of the Senses(2013) , cocurating 2010 Taipei Biennial, Live Ammo (2011),. His interest in cultural phenomena and contemporary art has driven his writings and works. His publications include Blurring Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Art in Taiwan and Writing on Locality: Synthome of Post-Contemporary Arts. In 2004, he founded the artist collective Channel A. Hongjohn Lin is currently professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts, serving as the chairperson.
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