International Center for Cultural Studies

Toward a Society of Equal Coexistence and Socio-Artistic Intervention in the Inter-Asian Context: Media Lab

Convener：Wen-Shu Lai

Convener：Wen-Shu Lai
Researchers: Wen-Shu Lai, Hsin-I Lin, Hwa-Jen Tsai, Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Louis Lo, Ko-Lun Chen, Hui-Yu Tang, Alain Brossat, I-Yi Hsieh

Research Objectives：
In response to the main them of the joint-project, "Conflict, Justice, and Decolonization," the goal of sub-project V is to foster a Society of Equality and Coexistence in the Inter-Asian Context. It is to follow the site of social conflicts by intervening in its on-going and urgent issues with multiform practices so as to bring about different forms of knowledge production and intellectual decolonization. We aim to establish a cross-regional critical comparison of Inter-Asia society to transcend a single country and develop a broader understanding of geopolitical history. We explore colonization, cold war, globalization, geopolitical economy, migrant workers, refugees, marginalized people, and local resistance from different perspectives such as arts intervention by interrogative design, sensory ethnography, sensory logistics, media ecology, image otherness, image time, and theater knowledge. Our researchers in this sub-project interrogate the social conflicts and issues of inequality from the age of the Cold War to the contemporary era through art forms, including visual art, installation art, documentaries, films, digital media, or theater. These diverse forms of art are essential mediation for us to think about society and history. We focus on historically and geopolitically connected regions such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, through the axes of conflict, justice, and decolonization to conduct our analysis.

Research Topics

Interrogative Design as Art Intervention in SocietyWen-Shu Lai, Institute of Applied Art, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2018-2022）
The Reflexive Sound Scene: Soundscape Writing and Discourse Archaeology in Sensory EthnographyLIN, Hsin-I, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2018-2020）
Alterity, Negativity, Artistic Intervention, and World-MakingHwa-Jen Tsai, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
The Theatrical Knowledge and Artistic Production during the Cold War Globalisation in TaiwanKo Lun Chen, Postdoctoral Researcher, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
Anti-China rhetorics in Taipei Times in the context of the agitation in Hong Kong and of the coronavirus epidemic or : LTI revisitedAlain Brossat, Philosophy, Université Paris 8 / Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2021）
The Media Aesthetics of Logistics: Belt-Road Network and the Audiovisual Resistance of Southeast Asia Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
From Cold War to Post-Cold War: Artistic and Socio-Historical Comparisons between Taiwan and Philippines (1970s to 1990s)Hui-Yu TANG, Postdoctoral Researcher, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
Temporality in Sinophone Cinema: Aesthetics of the Long Take, Politics of Globalisation, Localist Social ResistanceLouis Lo, Associate Professor and Director Graduate Institute for Studies in Visual Cultures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
Intercultural Cinema：Depend on Things, Entangled Objects, Image-Matter-FlowLIN, Hsin-I, Associate Professor, Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University（2020-2022）
Age of Anxiety: Malaysian Film Festival in Taiwan (2019)Project Team: SHOW Ying Xin (Postdoctoral Fellow, ICCS-NCTU), Zikri RAHMAN (MA Student, SRCS-NCTU), SEAH Jenn Yi (MA, Art History and Art Criticism- TNUA)
Global Frictions on Wet Market: Aquatic Aesthetics and Biosecurity InfrastructureI-Yi Hsieh, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University