Catalogue published in conjunction with 'Taipei Biennial 2014: The Great Acceleration' at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum from September 2014 to January 2015.

'Human activity has been transforming the planet for millennia. All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch—an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

Taipei Biennial 2014 uses this image in order to examine how contemporary art addresses this new contract between human beings, animals, vegetables, machines, products and objects. How does today’s art define and represent our space-time ? The exhibition will highlight the way artists focus on links, chainings, connections and mutations: how they envision planet earth as a huge network, where new states of matter and new forms of relations appear…' - from the website of Taipei Biennial 2014

Revolving around the theme of 'Coactivity', the Taipei Biennial 2014 features works of 52 artists or art collectives from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. A short description of works of each participating artist is included in this catalogue.

Please note that only artists of Asian descent are listed. The English version of the catalogue is also in AAA's collection.

「2014 台北雙年展」由2014年九月至2015年一月於臺北市立美術館舉行, 此乃是次展覽之圖錄。

「人類活動改造地球這個星體已有數千年之久。 如今地球所有生態體系均帶有人類存在的印記, 然而過去六十年來的變化規模與速度, 即科學家所謂的『劇烈加速度』, 也致使科學家將這種新地質時代命名為『人類世』—地球星體的大氣與地質環境演化受到人類活動強烈衝擊烙印的紀元。

「2014年台北雙年展」便是利用此一形象來檢視當代藝術如何表現在人類、動物、植物、機器、產物與物之間的這種新盟約。 現今藝術如何定義與表現我們的時空呢？ 本展會凸顯藝術家針對連結、鏈結、連接與突變的途徑： 他們如何將地球設想為一個碩大網絡, 而物質新狀態和關係新形式則在此網絡中出現⋯⋯」 -節錄自2014年台北雙年展網頁

圍繞「共同生活」這個主題, 是次展覽邀請了52位來自亞洲、非洲、美洲及歐洲等地的藝術家參展。 本圖錄包含每位參展藝術家作品之簡介。