This exhibition celebrates youth-led popular movements of approximately 10 years vintage and highlights both the similarities and differences between them. Social and political change is never straightforward and compartmentalized, let alone complete – which is why we have chosen a variety of such movements.
Join Us
Saturday May 18, 11am-5pm
Event Schedule
Noon - Curator, artist talks and house tour
2pm - Concert: Cello by Shu-Wei Tseng
3pm - Performance: Maria Verónica San Martin
Conceptual Performance: Chin Chih Yang
3pm food and drink will be served
In March 2014, young people led Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement which in time completely reversed the course of Taiwan’s foreign and domestic policy. On the 10th anniversary of the movement, we organize a program and exhibition which points out that social and political change is won through the brave spirit and effort of the movement leaders and the people - not awarded as a lucky accident. This exhibition will involve 10 more artists celebrating peoples’ political movements that took place around the world circa 2014. We select 5 movements: the Sunflower Movement, the Arab Spring, the Chilean Winter, the Ukrainian Euromaidan movement, and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement – all of approximately the same era as Taiwan’s Sunflower movement – to which artists will respond.
Advisory team: Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen, Ming Chiang, Patsy Chen, Kenneth Howell, Weiting Chen, I-Lun Shih
Still fromReimagined Dynamics of Stillness by Island Sunrise Team, 2024, Two channel video, running time: 30 minutes. 2024 Island Sunrise Exhibition Production Team: Lin, Wei-Lung ; Chang, Neng-Chen ; Chen, Ching Yuan ; Ng, Ju-ki
Artist Gao Yuan created this video while she was in residence at house 7B on Governors Island about a former resident - retired Commander Douglas Stevenson of the US Coast Guard.
She met Commander Stevenson serendipitously one day when he returned to view one of the places where he had lived on Governors Island.
Save the date: Saturday May 18, 2024, at house 7b, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
We are happy to be one of the art organizations returning to Nolan Park. At house 7b, we plan to have multiple arts programs- exhibitions, performances, talks, and workshops. House 7b open to the public from May 10 to October 30, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11-5pm, and by appointment.
