The 10th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition

DURATION: 2012-04-28 ~ 2012-06-17
OPENING: 2012-04-28
VENUE: MOCA Taiepi
ADDRESS: NO.39 Chang-An West Road Taipei, Taiwan

The Taishin Arts Award, held by the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture with the full support of Taishin Financial Holdings, is given with the aim of recognizing and rewarding achievement and quality, and honors creative ideas and professional practice in the contemporary arts in Taiwan. In addition, it highlights some of the artistic and performance movements at work in the arts today. The Taishin Arts Award is planned and carried out with an eye toward the long-term participation and investment of professionals, to ensure that the artistic prizewinners have an improving effect on the domestic cultural environment, bringing together the arts and everyday people, and making a difference in society by invigorating ordinary people. It is also about drawing international attention to the vibrant artistic creativity in Taiwan. The general ambience during the 2011 celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, as well as the media excitement over the Taipei International Flora Expo was not enough to prevent purely artistic events from emerging into the spotlight. The annual Taishin Arts award, after preliminary nominations of more than 166 works (including nominees and individual submissions), set a new record in submissions. After careful deliberations, criticism and discussion by the jury, 10 performance pieces and 5 pieces in the visual arts category were selected for the exhibition, making up this year’s entries for the top arts prize: Works in the Performing Arts category: National Symphony Orchestra - 2011TIFA－NSO Opera Concert—Elektra Ju Percussion Group Foundation - 2011 Six-Mallet Marimba Concert by Wu, Pei-Ching Dance Forum Taipei / Taipei Chinese Orchestra - 2011 Taipei Arts Festival—Eastern Tale Preparatory Office of the National Headquarters of Taiwan-Traditional Arts Guo Guang Opera Company - One Hundred Years On Stage Riverbed Theatre - Just for You Theatre Festival Forum Music - Forum Music and Les Percussions Claviers de Lyon—Légendes ! Fantasy Theatre - Cheat to Cheat ShiuKim Taiwanese Opera Troupe - New Taiwanese Opera－Remembering An-Ping National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, R.O.C - On the Road by Cheng, Tsung-Lung HORSE Dance Theatre - Successor I, II, III Works in the Visual Arts category: Jao, Chia-En - REM Sleep Li, Jun-Yang - Fairest Fairies Fair, Phû-lōng-kòng Blossom—Solo Exhibition of Ingenious Craftsman Jun-Yang Wu, Dar-Kuen (Curator)-【People’s Republic of China】— Republic without People Yao, Jui-Chung + Lost Social Documentary (LSD) - Mirage—Disused Public Property in Taiwan Tsai, Ming-Liang - The Theater in the Boiler Room At the beginning of May, a jury made up of art experts in Taiwan and from abroad will select the winners and runners-up of this year’s 10th annual Taishin Arts Award from among the 15 submissions. Regardless of who emerges as the victor, to have been selected as a finalist for the annual exhibition it is already a difficult achievement, and artistic success is assured! The exhibition of the finalists for the Taishin Arts Award was held in Kaohsiung for two successive years and has succeeded in familiarizing people in the south of the country and garnering interest. This year, it returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei for the 10th annual Finalists’ Exhibition. The show space is planned in a way that makes it an excellent opportunity for the general public to get close and firsthand experience of these masterworks. A special area will be established for a retrospective of this private Award’s previous 10 years, giving the public a chance to note the artistic successes and the creative resources of contemporary art in Taiwan accumulated over the years through this award.