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The Taipei Cultural Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York was formerly known as the Cultural Center, one of the two major components of the Chinese Information and Culture Center (CICC) of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York. The CICC was co-established by the Council for Cultural Affairs, the Government Information Office and the Ministry of Education in 1991, and the CICC was organized into two major components, the Information Center and the Cultural Center. Moreover, the Cultural Center also consisted of two cultural institutes, Taipei Gallery and Taipei Theater.
The Cultural Center is primarily responsible for planning, promoting, and implementing a variety of arts activities, as well as supervising the operation of Taipei Gallery and Taipei Theater. The Cultural Center has played a significant role in enhancing Taiwan’s cultural image and promoting international cultural exchanges. To cope with the new trend of global cultural competition, the Taipei Cultural Center, breaking the regional boundary of New York City, has been actively bringing Taiwan’s cultures to North America and has strengthened cultural promotion considerably since July, 2002. Since then, the Cultural Center officially has changed its name to the Taipei Cultural Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
The Taipei Cultural Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York is headed by a director, who is assisted by two officers, three specialists and one clerk.
Since the reorganization in July, 2002, in order to cope with the new trend of global cultural competition, the Taipei Cultural Center has adjusted its goals and mission to, using its office in New York as an outpost, promoting understanding of Taiwan’s culture and arts in North America continuously and systematically. By using culture and arts as communication channels, Taiwan is able to enhance mutual understanding and appreciation in culture and arts, as well as to strengthen the friendship with the United States and Canada.
To achieve the aforementioned goals and mission, the strategic plans of the Taipei Cultural Center are to cooperate with the important performance organizations in New York and North America, to invite Taiwan’s performance and visual arts groups or artists to New York and North America to perform, exhibit, or conduct artist residency, to actively participate in arts festivals of North America, to promote Taiwan’s artists onto international stages, and to increase international visibility of Taiwan’s culture and arts. In addition, the Taipei Cultural Center will invite important performance agents and visual arts curators in North America to Taiwan to visit performance groups and artists in order to promote better understanding of Taiwan’s arts groups and artists. Moreover, in accordance with Taiwan’s artist residency programs in North America supported by the Council for Culture Affairs on Taiwan, the Taipei Culture Center will also provide assistance to resident artists to present their art achievements.
Achievements: 2005-2007
In
order to promote the
rich diversity of Taiwan’s culture and arts
and to explore more international stages for Taiwan’s performance
groups and artists, the Taipei Cultural Center has made every endeavor to
invite Taiwan’s performance groups and artists to North America to perform
and exhibit. Their achievements
in promoting Taiwan’s performing arts and visual arts during
2005-2007 are as follows:
Performing Arts
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Cloud
Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
October, 2007
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The
Happy Puppetry Company
August,
2007 The Huntington Festival,
Children Museum of San Antonio and
University of Connecticut
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The Trance Music Ensemble
August, 2007 Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival
Cupertino in California
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The
Contemporary Legend Theatre
July,
2007 The
opening of Lincoln Center Festival
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The
Contemporary Legend Theatre
May, 2007
Harriet
& Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex in California
UC Davis Mondavi Center in Davis, and California Theater in San Jose
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Gang-A-Tsui
Theater
April, 2007
Symphony Space in New York,
Juilliard School in New York
Freer
Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
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Chai
Found Music Workshop
January, 2007
Japan Society in New York
Washington Pavilion of Arts
and Science in South Dakota
Belbas Theater
University of South
Florida in Florida
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Hsiao
Hsi Yuan Puppet Theater
January, 2007
Music Center in Los Angeles
Delaware Art Museum in Delaware
Seton Hall University in New Jersey
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
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Cloud
Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
October, 2006
Harris
Theater in Chicago
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
University of California Berkeley
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Taipei
Folk Dance Theater
October,
2006
Vanderbilt
Blair School of Music in Nashville
Empire Auditorium in San Antonio
Asian Arts and Cultural Center in Towson
Longwood Gardens Chrysanthemum Festival in Pennsylvania
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The LC Sisters’ Saxophone
Quartet
September, 2006
Taiwanese
Cultural Festival in Vancouver
Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office in New York
Taiwan
Day Festival in Rhode Island
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The Trance Music Ensemble
August, 2006
Lincoln Center Outdoor Festival
Back Bay Events Center in Boston
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C.
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Ju Percussion Group
March, 2006
Flint Center in San Jose
World Journal in Los Angeles
Kentucky Center for the Arts in Kentucky
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Dance Forum Taipei, Ku & Dancers, Taipei Dance Circle and Dancer
Kun-Yang Lin
January, 2006
Japan Society in New York
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Formosa
Aboriginal Song & Dance Troupe
October,
2005
Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C.
Springer
Opera House of Columbus in Georgia
New
Jersey Performing Arts Center in New Jersey
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The
Ten Drum Arts Percussion Group
August, 2005
Formosa
Cultural Festival in Toronto
Taiwanese Cultural Festival in Vancouver
Taiwan Day Festival in Rhode Island
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Hong-Sheng
Lion Dance Group
August,
2005
Lincoln
Center Outdoor Festival
Sunoco
Performance Theater in Pennsylvania
Jacob’s
Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts
Taiwanese
Cultural Festival in Vancouver
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Hsiao
Hsi Yuan Puppet Theater
August, 2005
The
Grand Performances Outdoor Festival
Local Chinese Food Festival in Los Angeles
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The
Contemporary Legend Theatre
May,
2005
San
Jose
UC
Davis Mondavi Center in Davis
Spoleto
Festival in South Carolina
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The
Legend Lin Dance Theatre
January, 2005
Japan
Society in New York
Visual Arts
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Group
Exhibition by Jui-Hseng Shu, Goang-Ming Yuan, Shih-Chien Huang, and Yu-Chin
Tseng
November,
2007
Participation
in Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York 2007
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Frolic
and Mischief in Contemporary Taiwanese Art
November, 2007
2*13
gallery, Tenri Gallery, and Taipei Gallery of TECO
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Group
Exhibition by Jui-Hseng Shu, Li-Shan Chang, and Chia-ling Lai
September - November, 2007
Participation in the Site-Specific Art Festival in Queens,
NYC: 2007 Jamaica Flux：Workspace & Windows
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“Taiwan:
From Within the Mist: by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art
May - December, 2007
Washington
Pavilion of Art and Science, South Dakota
Center A, Vancouver International Center for Contemporary Asian
art, BC, Canada
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Ransburg Gallery,
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis
Illges Gallery, Corn Center, Columbus State
University, Georgia
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“1.5
Generation”: Group Exhibition by Ming-Wei Lee and 4 other artists
June - October, 2007
Queens Museum of Art, New York
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Solo
Exhibition by Chieh-jen Chen
June to August, 2007
Asia Society in New York
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Group
Exhibition by Video Works of Taiwanese Artists, Chieh-Jen Chen, Goang-Ming
Yuan, and Hung-Chih Peng
February,
2007
Soho
Allison Residence
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January, 2007“New
Land”: Solo Exhibition by Li-shan Chang
Gallery
of Korea
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“Aisle
5”: Group Exhibition by Shih-Chien Huang and other 4 Taiwanese artists
October, 2006
Des
Moines Art Center in NYC
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“Starry
Sky Kite”: Solo Exhibition by Buteo Huang
July
- August, 2006
World
Financial Center Winter Garden
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Chi-wen
Gallery and Galerie Grand Siecle from Taiwan
March,
2006
Digital
& Video Art Fair (DiVA)
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“Habitat
7”: Solo Exhibition by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
March, 2006
Queen Museum of Art
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“Baby
Love”: Solo Exhibition by Shu Lea Cheang
January,
2006
Chelsea
Art Museum in NYC
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Taiwan
Today: Traditional Arts Contemporary Arts
October,
2005
World
Financial Center Winter Garden
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“Anthology
of the International Symposium on Taiwanese
Art” of National Taiwan Museum of
Art
April,
2005
Richmond
Art Gallery, Canada
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Handcraft
Work in Lunar New Year
February, 2005
City Hall of Providence, Rhode Island.
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“International
Symposium on Taiwanese Art” of National Taiwan Museum of Art
February, 2005
Asian
Pacific Museum of Art, Los Angeles
To
actively promote international cultural exchanges and present the rich
diversity of Taiwan’s culture and arts, the future
work plans of the Taipei Cultural Center are as follows:
1.
Strengthening
the cooperation relationships with arts organizations in North America
The
Taipei Cultural Center, using New York as a base, currently dedicates to
promoting Taiwan’s culture and arts to North America and has built up
cooperation relationships with certain important arts organizations in the
United States and Canada. Looking
forward to exploring more international stages for Taiwan’s performance
groups and artists, the Taipei Cultural Center works actively to strengthen
the cooperation relationships with other arts organizations in North America.
2.
Actively
participating in the important arts-related festivals in North America
The
Taipei Cultural Center has actively participated in arts festivals, such as
performing arts activities organized by the Association
of Performing Arts Presenters, International Society for the Performing Arts,
and Western Arts Alliance, as well as visual arts activities organized by
Contemporary Asian Fair. In the future, the Taipei Cultural
Center will continuously participate in the arts-related festivals, and it is
looking forward to increasing the international visibility of Taiwan’s
culture and arts.
3.
Building
long-term partnerships with agencies of artist residency in North America
To help cultivate outstanding artists and outstanding performance groups, the Council for Cultural Affairs on Taiwan selects and sends individual artists of potentiality to participate in artist residency programs in North America. Under the instruction of great masters and through observation and communication with other artists, Taiwan artists are able to expand their horizons and maybe able to create artworks as a joint effort. In accordance with this artist residency programs supported by the Council for Cultural Affairs, the Taipei Culture Center assists the artists-in-residence in adapting to new environments and in presenting their achievements. In addition, the Taipei Culture Center also actively builds up long-term partnerships with agencies of artist residency in North America and develops residency programs for performance groups in order to expand their horizons and to enhance professional competency of the entire group. For example, in the end of July, 2007, U-Theatre and the famous Chinese Opera diva, Wei Hai-ming, participated in the International Summer Arts Program at the Watermill Center established by Mr. Robert Wilson. During the period of residency, they participated in a series of seminars, master classes and workshops; they also demonstrated meditation, drum techniques, and martial art; moreover, they communicated with hundreds of artists and presented their achievements. Their participation achieved productive results.
4.
Enhancing
exchanges of arts professionals between Taiwan and North America
In order to promote Taiwan’s arts groups, every year the Taipei Culture
Center invites important agents of performing arts and curators of visual arts
in North America to Taiwan to attend art exhibitions and performing activities
and to visit performance groups in order to better understand the development
of Taiwan’s culture and arts. Moreover,
the Taipei Culture Center also invites Taiwan’s performance groups and
artists to North America. The
Taipei Culture Center has made outstanding achievements in these matters. Furthermore, in order to enhance exchanges of arts
professionals between Taiwan and North America, the Taipei Culture Center will
endeavor to arrange visits to North America for Taiwan’s curators of visual
arts and agents of performing arts to help expand their horizons and to build
communication channels of exchanges.
5.
Strengthening
international exchanges with museums and the associated culture and arts
agencies in North America
Due to the limitation of staff, the Taipei Culture Center currently only
engages in the exchanges of visual arts and performing arts.
In the future, however, it will overcome this problem and will also
actively promote exchanges and cooperation with museums and the associated
culture and arts agencies in North America, including visits, internships,
exchange exhibitions, and other cooperation programs, such as co-curator of
Taiwan’s art exhibitions, in order to promote Taiwan’s culture and arts.
6.
Increasing
internship opportunities for Taiwan students studying abroad in the field of
arts