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Article: 08 Taipei Biennial.(LETTER FROM TAIPEI)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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It is hardly surprising that it would be difficult to find a work in the 2008 Taipei Biennial that could be exhibited in mainland China. Most of the works are simply too politically charged. Several people who visited the Shanghai Biennale en route to Taipei, which opened a few days earlier, noted the gulf between the two exhibitions, one describing the Shanghai Biennale as 'bland in comparison'.
Especially irksome to the Chinese would be Tiananmen survivor Liu Wei's video A Day to Remember, 2005. It is a moving film that bears many repeat viewings. Wei's ambition is to break the silence imposed by the government about the military crackdown on student protestors ...