Conversation with Esther Lu

ALT + SHIFT + COMM presents a conversation with Taipei-based curator Esther Lu on how to create new collaborative ways to work with artists and audiences through speculative thinking and independent space practices.

Esther Lu is a curator and writer with a background in literature, art history, activist and curatorial studies. She is interested in formulating conceptual ways of seeing and discursive events crossing art and reality. Many of her projects focuses on interplays of sensibility, body, institution and memory, driven by the curiosity to explore human conditions, boundaries of knowing and how art embodies and exceeds our imagination to address various concerns toward humanity, culture and relevance of life.

Esther was the director of Taipei Contemporary Art Center from 2015 to 2107, and the curator of This is not a Taiwan Pavilion — collateral event in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She has curated a number of international exhibitions and workshops in Asia and Europe. Her recent curatorial practice involves creating co-learning and innovative mediation strategies for professional workshops and audience experience.

The ALT + SHIFT + COMM series will take a recess in August and will return in September with a new series of conversations and an updated format!

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http://www.tcac.tw/apostsuperfutureasia/
http://www.tcac.tw/salonspices2e1/
https://vimeo.com/255040824