Moderator
WEI Rongda
Panelists
FENG Hsin
Keynote Speaker
CHEN Fei-Hao
Taipei was chosen as the capital in the Japanese colonial period. Constructions and institutions were developed over the 50 years of the colonial period, which still have their influence on our daily lives, both visible and invisible. From CHEN Fei-Hao’s projects, Terushima Clock Shop and Visiting Path to Taiwan Grand Shrine, Reconstruction of Taipei Inari Shrine Archive (located next to The Red House in Ximen today), and the Taiwan Gokoku Shrine (now the National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine) in Family Album, to the derivative project, KenKou Shrine, (now National Taiwan Arts Education Center), the four concrete sites within Taipei City demonstrate the evolution of Taiwan to date in landscape and society all the way from the Japanese period. These seemingly alien yet familiar images are like what the artist said about Taipei City, “slicing these venues like a cake with each layer bears resembling to one another, yet differing in taste”.