The Green Island Human Rights Art Season launched a new identification system based on "people, sea, and island". The gillnets of the old prison, the waves of the Pacific Ocean, and the rhythmic lines of Green Island's reefs connect the human history of Green Island. with natural landscape.

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[Reporter Ling Meixue/Report from Taipei] The "Green Island Human Rights Art Season" held by the National Museum of Human Rights since 2019 will be transformed into a biennial exhibition from 2023, allowing more time for participating artists, senior victims and their families Interaction.

The Museum of Human Rights announced yesterday (7) that the chief curator for the first time after its transformation will be Cai Mingjun, an assistant professor of the Fine Arts Department of Tunghai University. From May 17th to September 17th.

Cai Mingjun explained that the curatorial theme "Listen to the Echoes of the Gap" is to let the public know the stories buried in the "gap" of history through listening. History repeating itself.

A total of 22 groups of domestic and foreign cross-field, cross-media and genre artists were invited, including 19 female creators, spanning all generations and age groups.

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In addition, experts and scholars are also invited to serve as curatorial consultants to help artists go deeper into the history of white terror, including Lin Chuankai, assistant professor of the Department of Sociology, National Sun Yat-sen University, who led a visit to the White Terror Jingmei and Green Island Memorial Park; architectural expert Hou Zhiren, who led a visit to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall The transformation of the unrighteous site; Chen Jinjin, an expert on Green Island literature and history, led a detour around Green Island; Peng Renyu, an associate researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Academia Sinica, led an understanding of the healing and companionship of political violence trauma.

The art season uses the images of Green Island taken by the victims Ouyang Wen and Chen Menghe in those years to lead the participating artists to conceive their works; starting from the history of white terror, discussing contemporary human rights issues, and going deep into the locality of Green Island, thinking about artistic creation and Green Island from multiple perspectives Relationship.

In addition, participating artists also communicated with predecessors from different backgrounds and suffering experiences during the creation period. Through the process of "co-creation" and "co-learning", they shared each other's imagination of art, and jointly constructed the open connotation subject of the art season .

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