Mute/Unmute is a podcast and seminar by Astrid Mania, with the support of Noi Fuhrer (WS2021/21 and SoSe 2021), Rahel grote Lambers and Anne Meerpohl. The idea of this podcast is to introduce and discuss art works, theories and incidents that relate to questions like: who is allowed to speak, who’s not? What can be said, what not? Whose voices have been suppressed? What kind of narratives and histories? What violence do we exert when speaking about others? What should we urgently talk about?

Mute/Unmute is meant to be active during the winter semester 2023/24, but it can potentially run much longer. We welcome contributions from HFBK students and staff and beyond. For more info / list of contributions please see https://pad.hfbk.net/Mute_Unmute and  / or get in touch with rahel.grote-lambers@hfbk-hamburg.de or astrid.mania@hfbk-hamburg.de

In this episode, Astrid Mania talks to Pohan Chiu about Taiwanese art and artists in the context of Taiwan's contribution to the 59th Venice Biennale. In addition, they discuss Taiwanese art historiography as well as food and identity.

Links: 

On the Taiwanese Contribution to the 59th Venice Biennale 2022:

https://www.taiwaninvenice.org/

About the Taiwanese Pavilion and the Artist, who is gonna represent Taiwan for the 60th Venice Biennale 2024.

https://www.art-it.asia/en/top_e/admin_ed_news_e/242381/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=242381

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_RaEoOtvQ

About food and identity:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/taiwan-cuisine.html

About Tehching Hsieh's work at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin:

https://youtu.be/SOHOx3Ejpfw
 

A theatre play on Taiwan currently on Tour in Europe: 
https://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/de/project/dies-ist-keine-botschaft-made-in-taiwan