BIUNG ISMAHASAN
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  • Biung Ismahasan
  • 女性團結: 接受.轉向.擴張 Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 米類.瑪珐流 Milay Mavaliw
  • 女性團結: 跨境.相遇 Indigenous Women's Art Across the Borders
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 瑪莉塔.伊莎貝爾.思璐法給 Marita Isobel Solberg
  • 女性團結:行走.紋理 The Art of Walking and Weaving by Indigenous Taiwanese Women
    • 彭秋玉 Bakan Nawi >
      • 行走在編織的紋理 Walking on Woven Trjectories
      • 女人佇立在山陵線上 A Woman Standing on the Mountain Ridge
      • 地織靈魂 The Soul of Ground Weaving Machine
      • 滴水穿石 (苧麻裝置) The Spirituality of Ramie
    • 尤莉.撒撒克 Yuri Sasak >
      • 順著河流走 Let the River Flow
      • 編織紋理心電圖 The Electrocardiogram of Woven Pattern
  • 女性團結:未知.感知 Reflection of Unknown and Receptual Experience by Indigenous Taiwanese Women Artist
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan >
      • 土地的味道 The Smell of the Land
      • 封存記憶 Archival Memories
      • 拓描系列 The Series of Rubbing and Portraying
    • 馬郁芳 Aruwai Matilin >
      • 心之所向 The Place Where the Heart Goes
  • Àbadakone at National Gallery of Canada
  • Curatorial Works
  • Dispossessions at Goldsmiths
    • Dispossessions Exhibition Programme
  • Talk

Eleng Luluan - Between Dreams

5/11/2019

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Curatorial process for Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel

5/11/2019

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全球原住民當代藝術五年展 安聖惠受邀參展

22/10/2019

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電子媒體報導
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SOUND THE PERFORMATIVE INDIGENEITY: Eleng Luluan as an alternative paradigm shift within Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art

18/10/2019

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‘Indigeneity’ is a politically enabling construct in the resistance to ongoing colonialisms and expropriations, and performance and installation art are vital expressions of its emergent, processual and contextual nature. This paper examines the decoloinal capacities of contemporary art and articulates performative epistemologies of relational transformation in spatial through the works of Rukai artist Eleng Luluan and curatorial practices with myself, a Bunun curator (Rukai and Bunun are two Nations of Taiwan’s sixteen Indigenous Groups). Eleng Luluan is a traditional Rukai Indigenous visual artist from Kucapungane community, Pingtung, Taiwan. She specialises in sculpture and composite media and environmental installations. The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) requires our assistance in overseeing the installation of Luluan’s artwork entitled “Between Dreams” in advance of the grand opening of the exhibition Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel on November 7, 2019.
 
This paper attempts to refine mixed descriptions of ‘Indigeneity’, based upon collaborative practices and experiences, considering the growing ‘Indigenisation’ of the international art exhibition. In this paper, I will explore performative approaches and collaborative strategies building on themes of continuity, activation, and relatedness in term of exhibitions Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths, University of London that defies expectations of primitivism and primordialism, emphasising instead self-made and re-appropriated identities at 
Dispossessions (2018), Ngahi' Routes: When Depths Become Experiments - Dispossessions (2019) and  Àbadakone (2019). I will focus on articulating how Luluan uses her Indigenous minimalist installations to activate intrinsic and extrinsic performativity between object and sculpture. Then, I will look at how I myself structured a performative curating between Indigenous performance and installation within Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art. 
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#Àbadakone #Canada

18/10/2019

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Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization

18/10/2019

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International Academy
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 8-10, 2019


Saturday November 9, 2019
National Gallery of Canada
 (380 Sussex Drive)
10:30am-12:00pm: Panel 4: Art and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Chairs: Heather Igloliorte (Concordia University) & Carmen Robertson (Carleton University)

Speakers:
Biung Ismahasan (University of Essex)
Peter Morin (OCAD University)
Zanele Muholi (Artist, South Africa)
Skawennati (Artist, Montreal)

12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm: Meet the artists of Àbadakone / Continuous Fire / Feu continuel
Galerie UQO (101 rue Saint-Jean-Bosco, Gatineau, QC)

5:00pm-7:00pm: Roundtable discussion on the occasion of Jinny Yu’s exhibition Perpetual Guest:

Space of suspense between permanence and passing through

A conversation with Claudette Commanda (University of Ottawa), Amy Fung (Carleton University), David Garneau (University of Regina) and Jinny Yu (University of Ottawa)
Moderated by Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University)
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7:00pm-9:00pm: Reception at Galerie UQO
Conference Link
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Meet the Artists – Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel

18/10/2019

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Saturday, November 9, 2019  
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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National Gallery of Canada
Special Exhibitions Galleries and Rotunda
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4
Canada
Join artists Pierre Aupilardjuk, Ruth Cuthand, Eleng Luluan, Mata Aho Collective, Sayo Ogasawara, Evgeniy Salinder and many others as they take questions from the public and discuss their works in Àbadakone │ Continuous Fire │ Feu continuel, an exhibition featuring international contemporary Indigenous art.
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Talks by different groups of artists will take place every half-hour between 1:00 and 3:00 pm. Look for them by their respective artworks in the Special Exhibition Galleries and Rotunda.

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Visitors can drop-in, circulate, and ask the artists questions. Attend as many sessions as you like!
Included with admission to the Gallery.
In English with bilingual question period.
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Àbadakone Panel Discussion: Indigenous Ways of Knowing

18/10/2019

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Saturday, November 9, 2019  
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10:30 am to 12:00 pm

National Gallery of Canada
Auditorium
380 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4
Canada
Join artists Peter Morin and Skawennati, and scholar Biung Ismahasan for an engaging discussion that explores key themes of Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, an exhibition featuring international contemporary Indigenous art. This conversation will be moderated by art historians Carmen Robertson and Heather Igloliorte.

Organized in collaboration with Carleton University, and the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis as part of the International Academy Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization.
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In English with simultaneous interpretation in French.
Free event.
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Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel

18/10/2019

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Art is happening in every corner of the National Gallery of Canada

Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, the second exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s series of presentations of contemporary international Indigenous art, features works by more than 70 artists identifying with almost 40 Indigenous Nations, ethnicities and tribal affiliations from 16 countries, including Canada.

Àbadakone animates both galleries and public spaces with art in all media, including performance art, video and commissioned installations, complemented by a dynamic program of workshops, performances, film screenings, talks, and more. Building on themes of continuity, activation, and relatedness, this exhibition explores the creativity, concerns and vitality of Indigenous art from virtually every continent. 

​Àbadakone is led by National Gallery of Canada curators Greg A. Hill, Christine Lalonde and Rachelle Dickenson, with consulted curators Candice Hopkins, Ariel Smith and Carla Taunton, as well as a team of advisors from around the globe. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience compelling contemporary art, as Àbadakone taps into and amplifies the global pulse of Indigenous artistic production.

October 2019

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    BIUNG ISMAHASAN

    Bunun Nation curator, artist and researcher from Dakanuwa Community, Namasia of Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. PhD Candidate in Curating at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex in Britain; Goldsmiths, University of London Alumni MA in Cultural Policy, Relations & Diplomacy (2014). ​

    ELENG LULUAN
    A traditional Rukai Nation Indigenous visual artist from Kucapungane community, Pingtung, southern Taiwan. She specialises in sculpture and composite media and environmental installations.

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Dr Biung Ismahasan (b.1984) is an educator, INDEPENDENT curator, community FACILITATOR and researcher from the Bunun, Atayal and Kanakanavu Nations, three of Taiwan’s sixteen Indigenous Nations. 

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彼勇.依斯瑪哈單 擁有臺灣原住民族布農族、泰雅族與卡那卡那富族的血統,目前是一名教育家、部落文化推動者、獨立策展人及研究員。

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  • Cover
  • Biung Ismahasan
  • 女性團結: 接受.轉向.擴張 Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 阿儒瓦苡.篙瑪竿 Aluaiy Kaumakan
    • 米類.瑪珐流 Milay Mavaliw
  • 女性團結: 跨境.相遇 Indigenous Women's Art Across the Borders
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan
    • 瑪莉塔.伊莎貝爾.思璐法給 Marita Isobel Solberg
  • 女性團結:行走.紋理 The Art of Walking and Weaving by Indigenous Taiwanese Women
    • 彭秋玉 Bakan Nawi >
      • 行走在編織的紋理 Walking on Woven Trjectories
      • 女人佇立在山陵線上 A Woman Standing on the Mountain Ridge
      • 地織靈魂 The Soul of Ground Weaving Machine
      • 滴水穿石 (苧麻裝置) The Spirituality of Ramie
    • 尤莉.撒撒克 Yuri Sasak >
      • 順著河流走 Let the River Flow
      • 編織紋理心電圖 The Electrocardiogram of Woven Pattern
  • 女性團結:未知.感知 Reflection of Unknown and Receptual Experience by Indigenous Taiwanese Women Artist
    • 峨冷.魯魯安 Eleng Luluan >
      • 土地的味道 The Smell of the Land
      • 封存記憶 Archival Memories
      • 拓描系列 The Series of Rubbing and Portraying
    • 馬郁芳 Aruwai Matilin >
      • 心之所向 The Place Where the Heart Goes
  • Àbadakone at National Gallery of Canada
  • Curatorial Works
  • Dispossessions at Goldsmiths
    • Dispossessions Exhibition Programme
  • Talk