Ecology is the science of relationships between organisms and their environments. It reminds us that human tradition should reconnect with the pure world to construct sustainable futures. Offered by the Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC), Eco Artwork on Island invitations artists to look at, expertise, and reply to island ecologies by way of cross-disciplinary artistic follow, recognizing that nobody is exterior to the social, cultural, and ecological programs shaping right now’s local weather disaster.
Opening Might 17, this six-month-long sequence of exhibitions and applications at Home 17 on New York Metropolis’s Governors Island is a response to a long time of prioritizing financial progress over sustainability, inventive expression, and mental tradition. Local weather change is the results of unchecked materialism, and Eco Artwork on Island acknowledges it as a worldwide public well being emergency. We urgently want artists with environmental consciousness to “make the global local” and provides kind to shared accountability.
Each Taiwan and Governors Island — the place TAAC’s residency relies — are geographically small and ecologically susceptible. With restricted land and publicity to environmental shifts, islands face intensified penalties when ecological consciousness is absent. Eco Artwork on Island brings artists, curators, medical professionals, and environmental consultants collectively in a collaborative strategy: inventive expression, environmental advocacy, and psychological well being.
Slightly than revisit the Earthworks motion of the Sixties–70s, this challenge goals to provoke a forward-facing dialogue. The artists concerned have interaction with human ecology, cultural trauma, and planetary well being by way of localized, poetic, and socially engaged practices.
Collaborating Artists
Chia-Wei Chang, Eugenie Chao, Huey-Min Chuang, Pin-Hsin Chu, Andrea Coronil, Nina Edwards, Hsiao-Chu Hsia (Julia), Szu-Ying Hsu, Ming-Jer Kuo, John Kuo, Jiun Lai, KyungLim Lee, Ling-Kai Lin, Shih-Pao Lin & Pei-Hua Yang, Hsin-Yi Liu, Elim Mak, Wildriana Paulino, Carle Shi, Jeremiah Teipen, Pou-Ching Tsai, Atu Ram, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky, Yeh Fang, and CHATogether led by Dr. Eunice Yuen (MD, PhD)
Schedule of Exhibitions & Occasions
Thematic Exhibition 1: Might 17–June 16, 2025
Solo and Particular Exhibitions: June 21–July 28, 2025
Jia-Jen Lin: Co lapsing Panorama: No One Floor the Identical as Any Different
Chia-Wei Chang: From South Pole to North Pole
In Reminiscence of the Pencil Walker Shi-Jin-Hua (1964–2024)
Solo and Particular Exhibitions: August 2–September 8, 2025
Ming-Jer kuo
Eugenie Chao
Hsiao-Chu Hsia (Julia)
Relight+1230c & Kuai-Hua Lin
Thematic Exhibition 2: September 13–November 2, 2025
Eco Artwork on Island takes place at Home 17 on Governors Island, a brief ferry experience from Decrease Manhattan and Brooklyn.
For extra data, go to taac-us.org.
Based in 2014, the Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) builds cultural bridges by way of artwork to deepen understanding, empathy, and ecological consciousness. President Dr. Tzu-Shong Yang, Trustees Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen, Patsy Chen, and Ming Chiang, and Govt Director Luchia Meihua Lee cordially invite you to go to.
Ming-Jer Kuo, Will Discover A Method sequence (2011), {photograph}, 16 x 20 inches (picture courtesy the artist)
