TCAC在2017年所全新推出的《辛沙龍》系列將首度嘗試透過展演情境創造和焦點議題的發展來輪廓未來政治的形貌。全年度的活動節目將從「身體政治」的再出發來思考各種切身於社會關係組織、政治權力的議題，從性和死亡等兩大軸線來探索不同文化如何理解身體作為當代社會中作為何種政治媒介、意識形態、文化符碼和結構規訓的載體。從而觀看身體在文化歷史上、在藝術文本中如何展現、交織、再現個體和集體的慾望和運作；在政治經濟上，又如何可能被歸納到各種被英雄化、神聖化、殘疾化、工具化、機械化、畸形化、妖魔化等狀態。這些身體政治的問題意識將引導我們重新關注並辨識自身現代化的真正起始點，並思索所處當代社會身體的病徵。相關的子題或將擴延至情慾、性別、身份政治、酷兒研究、女性主義、暴力、痛苦、死亡、後網路、賽伯客等，以長達兩年的時間來梳理關於身體實踐之徑。

辛沙龍系列關注如何在21世紀創造一種新型態的藝術沙龍聚會發表以滋養公共領域的知識生產與藝術實踐，讓藝術家與各界人士得以在一種共學、協作的過程裡展開長期對話性的研究討論、展示實驗、創意激盪並衍伸更多展覽形式以外的藝術言說方式來和觀眾／參與者進行溝通，演練奇想空間場域。這同時將作為TCAC開發公共領域擴延思索以及藝術實驗場的手段，刺激在地藝術社群擴延議題思想和跨文化交流的範疇，以此投射對藝術中心在空間敘事、身份功能、社群關係上的開放想像。

In 2017 TCAC is launching a new program series as an attempt to contour future politics by creating a tangible open space for connecting experimental displays and thematic discussions: the Salon Spice. Taking a departure from “body politics”, the Salon Spice will contemplate issues related to social organization and the distribution of political power from two main subjects “sex” and “death.” We will explore how bodies are at the center of this topic, subject to political agency, ideology, cultural symbol, structure and discipline across different cultures. Through a cultural and historical lens, we shall examine how bodies are presented and connected by their representation among individual and collective desires and manipulations in art. Politically and economically speaking, we will investigate how bodies are constantly labeled and classified as heroes, holy figures, witches, or the disfigured. The abnormal, alienated, instrumentalized or body-as-machine figures shall also be examined. These problematic topics will lead us to rethink and identify the real starting point for our very own modernization progress, and link with the symptoms of the contemporary social bodies. Related topics may also extend to eros, gender, identity politics, queer studies, feminism, violence, pain, death, post-internet, cyborg, etc.

The Salon Spice series suggests how to create a 21st century art salon that meets diverse variations of contemporary knowledge production, artistic practice and development of public sphere. It aims to create a co-learning collaborative environment and process for artists and other professionals by building conversations and navigating through research, display experiments, brainstorming, and other artistic communication beyond the form of exhibition-making, and together, exercising the space with fantasy and intervention. This could be considered as one of the strategies for TCAC to expand the public realm and art experimentation, providing a progressive platform for the local art community to explore ideas and intercultural exchanges that can be a part of the public imagination for the art center’s space narration, institutional identity, function and community.