Made in Public is a collaboration between artist Marysia Lewandowska and curator Esther Lu based respectively in London/Hong Kong and Taipei, who are embarking on a project responding to a relentless process of privatisation of all aspects of life. Their project will take a form of a collectively generated research, public events and a publication, jointly developed and supported by Taipei Contemporary Art Center and Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. The enquiry is centred around the relationship between property, protest and the commons and the forms of their articulation as part of the globalizing processes of Asia. The research opens up an opportunity to expose and reflect upon the existing tensions in cultural production and dissemination as well as to explore alternative value, legal and self-governance systems by attending to a range of emerging creative expressions. In order to be sensitive to the recent political events in the region, the project invites cultural practitioners to discuss together the models and initiatives committed to commons-based society and their contributions to a well nourished public culture.
Participants|Shu Lea Cheang, Hammad Nasar, Isaac Leung, Phoebe Wong, Clara Cheung, Antony Hudek, Michelle Wong,Brandon LaBelle, Sampson Wong, Maria Lind, Michael Leung, Huang Chien-Hung, Huang I-Chieh, Wen Yau, Loser Liberation Zone members, Phoebe Wong, Pei-Yi Lu, Laurel Ptak, Emily Pethick, Sun Quan Huang, Hafiz Rancajale