The present exhibition entitled City of Swallows: Migration, Post/Colonial and new Taiwan Colour sets out to reconsider immigration and migration, post/colonial history and culture awareness in Taiwan by looking at the newest wave of Southeast Asian immigrants and migrant workers. As said by Chen Wen-hsiang in the preface, 'This exhibition explored several territories, integrating ideas from sociology and politics with visual, installation and performance art. City of Swallows attempts, from a cultural perspective, to depict the situation of migrant labourers and new immigrant spouses in light of the colonial and post-colonial changes of the past 100 years in Taipei... what this exhibition wants to convey is not immigration history, statistics or the economic contribution of new immigrants and migrants, but rather the cultural conflict, adjustment and adaptation these people must endure in Taiwan.'

Artist statements and biographies are provided in the catalogue. The attached DVD (CD.000539) contains artist interviews, images of works and performance footages.

是次展覽名為「燕子之城：移民、後 / 殖民記憶與新台灣色彩」，其目的在於分析最近的東南亞移民及外勞風潮，進而探討台灣的移民和人口遷徏狀況、(後) 殖民歷史及文化覺醒等議題。陳文祥在序言中提到，這次展覽「是以跨界域的概念結合社會政治學、視覺藝術、行動藝術與表演藝術於一體、嘗試從文化的角度呈現台北城百年來歷經殖民與後殖民經濟之改變所牽引出的移民人文境況。[……]此展所要呈現的，並非移民的歷史與統計數字或移民對本地城市的經濟效益，而是移民潮對台灣所帶來的文化衝擊、調適與混同現象。」

本圖錄收錄了藝術家的創作自述及簡歷，附送的DVD (CD.000539) 載有藝術家訪談錄、作品圖像及表演片段。