This catalogue was published in conjunction with the group exhibition entitled 'Freeze! 2009 International MEDTECH Art Show' held at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from July to September 2009.
"The two main focuses of this exhibition are discourses on assistive technology art and the ethics of medical technology. Through four interactively related and overlapping exhibition topics, we confront the new language and features that medicine and technology have brought to society and art, thus explore related ethical questions from different perspectives... The exhibition's four overlapping and intricately linked themes are:
1. Flesh and Frenzy: Outward Symptoms and Hidden Desire
2. Human Artborg: Body Machine and Bodiless Body
3. Anti-Hegemony MedTech: Opposing Eco-Imperialism and Postcolonial Medical Hegemony
4. Assistive TechArt: Technological Prostheses and Barrier-Free Art Tools
None of the works in the exhibition can be absolutely relegated to one theme. All the artworks are integrated so that they all belong to different themes from different perspectives, permitting cross boundary discourses. The museum has included twenty-three artworks of international artists, as well as the work of five local artists and two student groups who collaborated with health care institutions. In total, there are thirty exhibits in the show." (by Laza Wu, 'Freeze! 2009 International MEDTECH Art Show', p. 15-16)
Artists' biographies included. Please note only the names of Asian artists are listed below.
"The two main focuses of this exhibition are discourses on assistive technology art and the ethics of medical technology. Through four interactively related and overlapping exhibition topics, we confront the new language and features that medicine and technology have brought to society and art, thus explore related ethical questions from different perspectives... The exhibition's four overlapping and intricately linked themes are:
1. Flesh and Frenzy: Outward Symptoms and Hidden Desire
2. Human Artborg: Body Machine and Bodiless Body
3. Anti-Hegemony MedTech: Opposing Eco-Imperialism and Postcolonial Medical Hegemony
4. Assistive TechArt: Technological Prostheses and Barrier-Free Art Tools
None of the works in the exhibition can be absolutely relegated to one theme. All the artworks are integrated so that they all belong to different themes from different perspectives, permitting cross boundary discourses. The museum has included twenty-three artworks of international artists, as well as the work of five local artists and two student groups who collaborated with health care institutions. In total, there are thirty exhibits in the show." (by Laza Wu, 'Freeze! 2009 International MEDTECH Art Show', p. 15-16)
Artists' biographies included. Please note only the names of Asian artists are listed below.
Alternative title
ji dong yi shi dai: 2009 yi liao yu ke ji yi shu guo ji zhan
Access level
Onsite
author
editor
Location code
EX.TAI.FTI
Language
Chinese - Traditional, 
English
Keyword
technology,  body,  group exhibition
Publication/Creation date
2009
No of pages
156
ISBN / ISSN
9789860193008
No of copies
1
Content type
catalogue
Chapter headings
Freeze! 2009 International MedTech Art Show - WU Laza, 吳梓寧
You Think I Live in Silence But I am Tired of this Illusion - 'Loss of Ability' in the Context of Medicine and Art - CHIEN Shangmin, 簡上閔
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