NYC Art Bridge
THE MOMENT 2015 marked TAAC's second year, in which we pursued with increased vigor the goals found in the mission statement. Promoting and publicizing Taiwanese-American and Taiwanese art is TAAC's reason for existing.
THE MOMENT 當下.當代
Contemporary Taiwanese American Arts
To draw a Contemporary Art forum is to separate from both modern and historical perspectives, to immerse oneself in current time and space. A meeting point in the processing time from past and to the future. We might call it the “moment;” it is short and creative.It entails catching an idea when it appears like a flash of light. It can – and must - disappear in the next femtosecond. A “moment” can mean a minute portion of time, or the product of quantity (as a force) and the distance to a particular point. THE MOMENT in contemporary art can be ideally a philosophical term and scientific necessity.
THE MOMENT starts at the New York Hall of Science. The traditional format of painting shares space with an intertwining of natural with industrial material, and a literature space employs the latest interactive technology.These are threads expressing multiple directions, meeting in this MOMENT. The MOMENT investigates the play of the virtual and the real, inward and outward, our intimate reflection on a surface, dark and light, or a view of self in the outside environment.The Moment visualizes a picture, an object, a location, a person, or a fanciful collective memory of how we evolved as creatures. We are about to investigates the artist’s relation to society and himself.
Romping through contemporary aesthetics, artists and the curators share different interpretations; each artwork displays its own moment, as the product of a unique insight and the distance the artist has carried his or her conception, and this is a moment for us to carefully experience and think about “no-where” and “now-here.”
National Hall of Science
Queens Museum - Flushing Meadow Corona Park
Queens Museum, NY
Moving Sound- music, performance
Queens Museum, NYC
Passport Thursday, Movie, performance, concert
Six interactive Projects at Queens Museum
Queens Botanical Garden, NYC
Tenri Cultural Center, Manhattan, NYC
Taiwan Center, Flushing, Queens, NY
2015 September 27 6-10pm TAAC Annual Gala at Taiwan Center.
Candy Bird mural front and side of Taiwan Center; Shan Y Chuang dance; HsiangLu Meng's clay shoes sculpture
Chinchi Yang's can weaving sculpture; installation view of Taiwan Center lobby; acrylic painting by Eric C. Chiang; special guest: Martha Wilson, with artist Chinchih Yang.
Taiwanese artists received a proclamation from Senator Toby Stavinsky; sit down dinner banquet view,;mural by Candy Bird at Taiwan Center; cocktail time outdoor music performance.
About TAAC
Based in New York, The Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) will foster awareness of Taiwanese American art and encourage dialogue on artistic issues within the broader community in the United States, by the following means.
- Support the Taiwanese Endowment Fund at the Queens Museum, and future collaboration projects.
- Make cross-disciplinary creative awards.
- Organize artistic programs.
- Help artists in North America as well as artists from Taiwan and friends of Taiwan of different ethnicities to exhibit, perform, and produce their work in the US.
- Work cooperatively with colleagues around the US to broaden our collective audiences and to form networks for sharing information, resources, and funding.
- Supports all artistic disciplines in classical, fusion, folk, and innovative forms influenced by the arts of Taiwan.
- Build awareness of Taiwanese art in North America. Promote and build alliances with other organizations.
Special Thanks to: Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Additional thanks to: Joanne Chen, inCube Arts, Prof. Y. H. Chung for the logo design, the performance team, and all the artist who donated their art works.
台美文藝協會TAAC旨在透過文化藝術的合作交流，提供並支持台灣與國際的對話、了解、與尊重；連結並資助在美國的台灣藝術創作者、專家、與學者；獎勵整合跨領域藝術創新概念；提升社區對於藝術創作的認知與重視； 豐富社群間的藝術對話、鼓勵全球性的相互回應與瞭解。TAAC將秉持跨越政治宗教，緊守中心宗旨並適時調整以因應國際潮流與現實趨勢。
TAAC將年度性支持皇后美術館的台灣藝廊基金與台灣藝術活動；並協助美國的台裔藝術家、不同族群的台灣藝術之友、個人、機構團體的展覽、表演及各類型藝術創作；協同藝術工作者擴展藝術觀眾群，組成聯繫網絡以分享訊息、 資源及經費；支持跨領域各類型的藝術形式與展現；建立國際上對台灣藝術的認知了解；逐步與美國不同藝術機構建立合作聯盟關係。
特別感謝 :紐約市文化事務局局長, 紐約台北文化中心. 另感謝鐘有輝教授的TAAC LOGO設計, 以及陳韋晴的2014年邀請卡設計。
