Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Contents

A Note from the Chief Editor / CHIANG Po-shin
1-Indeterminate Temporality Embedded in Nam June Paik's Early Experiments from 1959 to 1963 / KIM Hee-young
2-Descent to the Everyday: The Emergence of Critical Exhibitions in Southeast Asia in the 1970s / SENG Yu-jin
3-Delayed Plasticity: A Preliminary Investigation of the Political Criticism of Sinophone Single-Channel Video Art in the 1980s / SING Song-yong
4-The Photographic Conditions of Contemporary Thai Art / Clare Veal

A Note from the Chief Editor / Guest Chief Editor, Chiang Po-shin
Toward the Future of the Archive: Revisiting the History and Movements of East Asian Contemporary Art

The No.34 issue of the Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum is composed by the theses from the international symposium titled Archival Turn: East Asian Contemporary Art and Taiwan (1960-1989). Collaborating with Taipei Fine Art Museum and Spring Foundation, I planned the conference, which took place on 8th and 9th April 2017, with the participation of scholars from various countries, such as Australia, Germany,
America, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, France, the Philippines, Korea and Taiwan. Fifteen essays and eight case studies were presented at the venue, and it was an international symposium with relatively massive scale and academic depth in the Taiwanese art circle lately. The conference aimed to make a response to the recent trend to re-explore the history of contemporary art in various countries of East Asia after World War II.