Opening Reception
Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 6–8pm
In collaboration with Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SculptureCenter welcomes Small World Cinema, a presentation of moving image works from the Taipei Biennial 2023 – Small World, to New York City.
“Small World,” the theme of the 13th edition of the Taipei Biennial, suggests both a promise of greater control over one’s own life, and a threat of isolation from a larger community. As the curators suggest, our world can become smaller as we grow closer to one another, but also as we grow apart, and Taipei Biennial 2023 – Small World takes place within such a suspended state.
Divided into four programs and spread across SculptureCenter’s lower level galleries, Small World Cinema includes works made between 1989 and 2023 by Tekla Aslanishvili; Yin-Ju Chen; Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze; Samia Halaby; Li Yi-Fan; Jen Liu; Basim Magdy; Jumana Manna; Artemio Narro; Bahar Noorizadeh in collaboration with Rudá Babau and Waste Paper Opera (Klara Kofen, James Oldham, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Anna Palmer); Ipeh Nur; Ellen Pau; Oleksiy Radynski; John Smith; Su Yu-Hsin; Wang Ya-Hui; C. Spencer Yeh; and Zhou Tao.
The Taipei Biennial is one of the longest-standing biennials in Asia. Since its inception in 1998, it has served as a platform for interaction and exchange between Taiwanese and international communities.
Taipei Biennial 2023 – Small World is currently on view in Taipei until Mar 24, 2024. The exhibition is curated by Freya Chou, Reem Shadid, and Brian Kuan Wood.
Screening Schedule
Mondays
Screen 2
12:30–3pm & 3–5:30pm
Wang Ya-Hui, Visitor, 2007
Jumana Manna, Foragers, 2022
John Smith, Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries 6), 2007
Zhou Tao, The Axis of Big Data, 2023 *Screens after U.S. premiere in Doc Fortnight 2024 at The Museum of Modern Art.
Thursdays
Screen 2
12:30–3pm & 3-5:30pm
Wang Ya-Hui, Visitor, 2007
Bahar Noorizadeh in collaboration with Rudá Babau and Waste Paper Opera (Klara Kofen, James Oldham, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Anna Palmer), Free to Choose, 2023
Tekla Aslanishvili, A State in a State, 2022
Oleksiy Radynski, Infinity According to Florian, 2022
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
Screen 2
A and B, alternating hourly
A – 12pm, 2pm, & 4pm
Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, It’s Just a Single Swing of a Shovel, 2015
Ellen Pau, Drained II, 1989
Jen Liu, The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, 2023
Basim Magdy, The Dent, 2014
B – 1pm, 3pm, & 5pm
Artemio Narro, Rambo, 2001
Su Yu-Hsin, Particular Waters, 2023
Ipeh Nur, Menghanyut: Tubuh dan Perjalanan (Adrift: The Body and Journey), 2022
Yin-Ju Chen, Transactions, 2008
Daily
Screen 1
12–6pm
Li Yi-Fan, What Is Your Favorite Primitive, 2023
Ellen Pau, Recycling Cinema, 2001
Bar
12–6pm
C. Spencer Yeh, 123 TRAILERS FOR SPECTACLE, 2023
Corridor
12–6pm
Samia Halaby, Brass Woman, 1992/2019
Samia Halaby, Rhythms, 1992/2019
Samia Halaby, Branching, 1992/2019
