If you are in the area and have some time to kill, I would definitely recommend dropping in to the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and seeing what they have on display. It's a relaxing way to spend a few hours, and not too crowded at all (the best part!).
Here are a few snap shots from a few of the exhibits:
OPAVIVARÁ!, Formosa Decelerator, 2014
Hammocks and free tea, in the main lobby area of the museum. More information here.
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Photo taken from the top floor
Surasi Kusolwong, Golden Ghost (Reality Called, So I Woke Up), 2014
Taken from scmp.com,
The Thai artist has filled a gallery with five tonnes of yarn, turning it into a soft, colourful playpen where more than a few visitors have felt free to lounge in the tangles of soft string. But Kusolwong has also hidden a dozen golden necklaces inside the yarn and anyone who finds one can keep it. So the installation is also a treasure hunt, and a statement on human greed, colour and texture - and probably Marxist dialectical materialism as well. Most notably though, it inspires visitors to interact with it, even if just by walking through the ankle-deep cushy strands.
More information on the artist here.
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The room of yarn
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This couple was having fun...
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and the guy posed for me as I not-so-sneakily tried to take his picture.
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A few people actively looked for the necklaces, but most were just hanging out and having fun. Cory and I had a good long lie-down rest.
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I made a fort, like any self-respecting Canadian would in this situation.
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TADA! My fort! Unfortunately it was cannibalized within minutes of leaving :(
Shimabuku, 'My Teacher Tortoise' and 'Mobile Phone and Stone Tool'
More information on these two exhibitshere.
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Crawling around in a white pen.
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This one gave us a chuckle
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No iPhone 6 yet at this point.
Ching-Hui Chou, Animal Farm
The prints from this exhibit really stood out to us - really evocative images. More info here.
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Chun Teng Chu, Aesop’s Bats
Really interesting skeletons of "bats" based on a combination of different animal skeletons. More information here.
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So creepy!
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But cool looking!
Ian Cheng, Droning Like an Ur
No pictures, but this was a super eerie film playing with really creepy sounds. I wish I could find a video of the exhibit, but I'll just list it here so I can remember what it was! I was not entirely sure if it was pre-rendered or happening in real-time. More information here.
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