The Wild Eighties

Focusing on the 1980s in Taiwan, the dawn of the transdisciplinary and self-enlightenment, the exhibition takes the audience into an exploration of the vibrant cultural scenes, in which visual arts, theater, new cinema, music, and literature interwove and collided in the socio-political milieu at the time, and further opens up multiple perspectives for possible historical narratives. Featuring more than seven hundred works, archives, audio and video documentaries recordings, and interviews, the exhibition comprises five sub-topics, namely, “Avant-Garde and Experimental,” “Politics and Taboo,” “Translation and Hybridity,” “Local, Global, and Identity,” and “Convergence and Onward.”