New York, July 11 (CNA) Taiwanese artworks, visual arts, and even an occasional performing arts and food event are being featured at an exhibition called “Fever Genesis” in Long Island City with the support of the Taipei Cultural Center in New York until July 30.
The exhibition, organized by the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) and the show’s host, Culture Lab LIC, is showcasing art forms such as installations, photography and videos created by six Taiwanese artists, according to its website.
Though the show has a Taiwanese orientation, the artists have a global vision, using their art to call on countries and multinational corporations to honor their ESG responsibility in an era of upheavals and uncertainties, the show’s website said.
By connecting technology, art and society, the artists address such urgent issues as the environment, survival, food crises, and people’s fear of artificial intelligence, according to the website.
One of the works by artist Wu Chi-yu (???) called “Hominis” follows the timeline of species’ evolution from the past to the present, according to the online introduction.
Another work is a 16mm film installation by Hu Nung-hsin (???) called “Touching the Rumble of Melting.”
It captures variations in light and shadows and the “acoustic trembles” of melting icebergs in the Arctic, which symbolize subtle changes of the fragile Arctic ecosystem that affect everything else, according to the exhibition’s website.
In conjunction with Fever Genesis, the Culture Lab LIC will also host a performance of “Islanders 2.0: Coming home” by a group of young Taiwanese artists and a food market in its parking lot on July 16.
The three-part show fuses a sound installation “My Childhood Home” with a film titled “All City’s A Stage” and a dance performance titled “Compound Playground” that combines Taiwan folk dances, classical jazz and neo-soul renditions of Taiwanese folk songs, according to the Ministry of Culture.
The food court that day will be another in the Taiwan Fest series that brings authentic Taiwanese food to New Yorkers and recreates the classic Taiwanese night market vibe in different New York City boroughs and neighborhoods.
Its most recent events were in the Chelsea area of Manhattan on April 29 and in Park Slope in Brooklyn on June 18.
