彼勇．依斯瑪哈單（生於1984年）來自高雄山區那瑪夏區，擁有臺灣原住民族布農族、泰雅族與卡那卡那富族的血統，目前是一名獨立策展人、藝術家和研究員，2021年1月取得英國艾塞克斯大學 (Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex) 哲學與藝術史學院 策展學研究中心 策展學博士，論文題目:
Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond。研究涉及原住民策展實踐、策展作為解殖的社會運動、跨媒介藝術實踐、「履踐式表述行為原民性」的詮釋、原住民創造主權、藝術合作實踐、策略的倫理學與原住民知識論、原住民策展和展覽設計史。2014年11月獲得倫敦大學金匠學院 (ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London) 創意與文化創業研究所 文化政策、關係與外交碩士學位; 2015年進修愛丁堡大學愛丁堡藝術學院 (Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh) 藝術學 MPhil in Art 課程。
著名的策展計畫實踐包括《剝奪：2014-2019年原住民族的履踐相遇》，以臺灣原住民藝術家為核心的國際藝術與文化交流。最近策劃的其他展覽，包括2019年桃園市原住民族文化會館年度展《地瓜路徑：當深度成為實驗》與七位來自不同部落且不同領域的原住民藝術家合作；2019-2020年擔任魯凱族裝置藝術家安聖惠 (峨冷．魯魯安) 加拿大國家藝廊 全球原住民當代藝術五年展 延續之火《Àbadakone》的協同策展人；2018年曾擔任 挪威政府文化部 挪威當代藝術中心 薩米當代藝術文件研究展《讓河流順著流：主權意志與新世界的創造》的策展助理與專輯出版作者；2021年《女性團結：接受．轉向．擴張》策展人暨英國文化協會贊助 倫敦第一民族藝術節數位策展 (2021.03.19~2022.03.31)；2022年第23屆 雪梨雙年展 Biennale of Sydney 協同策展人，與藝術總監 José Roca 和澳洲原住民策展人 Hannah Hannah Donnelly 策劃原住民節目與部落合作交流項目，策展主題為 rīvus 河流，將以排灣語 Sicevudan 河流的源頭回應主題。
Dr Biung Ismahasan (b.1984) is a curator, artist and researcher from the Bunun, Atayal and Kanakanavu Nations, three of Taiwan’s sixteen Indigenous Nations. He received a PhD in Curating from Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex in the UK, with a thesis ‘Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond.' His research relates to contemporary Indigenous curatorial practice and aesthetics, focusing on Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art. Ismahasan emphasises issues of participation, performativity and the historiography of Indigenous curation and exhibition design. He has received a MA in Cultural Policy, Relations & Diplomacy from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014.
His most notable curatorial projects include Dispossessions: An Indigenous Performative Encounter 2014–2019, an international performance art exchange of Indigenous artists from Taiwan. He was a curatorial assistant of Let The River Flow: The Sovereign Will And The Making of A New Worldliness at Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo (April 2018); he has curated Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths (May 2018); he had curated yearly theme-based exhibition Ngahi’s Routes: When Depth Become Experiment which have collaborated with seven Taiwanese Indigenous artists at the Taoyuan City Indigenous Cultural Centre (February and December 2019); he recently curated the Rukai Nation installation artist Eleng Luluan’s Between Dream in Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel at the second exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s series of presentations of contemporary international Indigenous art (November 2019 and October 2020); Resurgence and Solidarity: Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art at Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park (March and May 2021) - digital presentation collaborated with ORIGINS: Festival of First Nations in London funded by British Council (March 2021 ~ March 2022); Biung will play a pivotal role in the artistic development as a Co-curator of Aluaiy Kaumakan's project (Paiwan Nation, Paridrayan Community, Taiwan) together with artistic director José Roca and Wiradjuri curator Hannah Donnelly at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (March and June 2022).
Curatorial project Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art (2018) is an international performance art exchange of Indigenous artists from Taiwan. The first research-based exhibition of Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art in the UK was curated by Biung Ismahasan in the Lower Atrium Space of Professor Stuart Hall Building at Goldsmiths, University of London www.gold.ac.uk/icce/ . This exhibition, performances and event series exploring the essential, expressive and ethno-aestheic nature of Taiwanese Indigenous cultures. An Indigenous counter of performativity across London. International collaborative curatorial project for Taiwanese Indigenous Rukai Nation artist Eleng Luluan 安聖惠 at Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel which is 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 from 8 November 2019 to 4 October 2020.
Bunun Nation Independent Curator, Artist and Researcher based in Taiwan
PhD in Curating, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Department of Art History and Theory,
School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, UK
英國艾塞克斯大學 (SPAH, Essex) | 哲學與藝術史學院 策展學研究中心 策展學博士
蘇格蘭愛丁堡大學 (Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh) | 藝術學院 當代藝術學類博士 (MPhil/PhD in Art) 博士班第一年升等
倫敦大學金匠學院 (ICCE, Goldsmiths) | 創意文化創業研究中心 文化政策、關係與外交碩士
台灣視覺藝術協會理事 2021 ~
台東縣政府原住民青年文化觀察團藝術文化專家委員 2021 ~
國際當代藝術策展人協會 (註冊於德國) | www.iktsite.org IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art Active Member 2017 ~ Present
南方藝術評論研究成員 | 觀察員藝文田野檔案庫 December 2020 ~ Present
b.ismahasan@essex.ac.uk / biung1984@gmail.com
www.essex.ac.uk/people/ISMAH65405/biung-ismahasan
Ningni Guest House / Ningni First Nations Residency in Namasia, Kaohsiung of the southern Taiwan www.facebook.com/ningniguesthouse/
Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond。研究涉及原住民策展實踐、策展作為解殖的社會運動、跨媒介藝術實踐、「履踐式表述行為原民性」的詮釋、原住民創造主權、藝術合作實踐、策略的倫理學與原住民知識論、原住民策展和展覽設計史。2014年11月獲得倫敦大學金匠學院 (ICCE, Goldsmiths, University of London) 創意與文化創業研究所 文化政策、關係與外交碩士學位; 2015年進修愛丁堡大學愛丁堡藝術學院 (Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh) 藝術學 MPhil in Art 課程。
著名的策展計畫實踐包括《剝奪：2014-2019年原住民族的履踐相遇》，以臺灣原住民藝術家為核心的國際藝術與文化交流。最近策劃的其他展覽，包括2019年桃園市原住民族文化會館年度展《地瓜路徑：當深度成為實驗》與七位來自不同部落且不同領域的原住民藝術家合作；2019-2020年擔任魯凱族裝置藝術家安聖惠 (峨冷．魯魯安) 加拿大國家藝廊 全球原住民當代藝術五年展 延續之火《Àbadakone》的協同策展人；2018年曾擔任 挪威政府文化部 挪威當代藝術中心 薩米當代藝術文件研究展《讓河流順著流：主權意志與新世界的創造》的策展助理與專輯出版作者；2021年《女性團結：接受．轉向．擴張》策展人暨英國文化協會贊助 倫敦第一民族藝術節數位策展 (2021.03.19~2022.03.31)；2022年第23屆 雪梨雙年展 Biennale of Sydney 協同策展人，與藝術總監 José Roca 和澳洲原住民策展人 Hannah Hannah Donnelly 策劃原住民節目與部落合作交流項目，策展主題為 rīvus 河流，將以排灣語 Sicevudan 河流的源頭回應主題。
Dr Biung Ismahasan (b.1984) is a curator, artist and researcher from the Bunun, Atayal and Kanakanavu Nations, three of Taiwan’s sixteen Indigenous Nations. He received a PhD in Curating from Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex in the UK, with a thesis ‘Indigenous Relational Space and Performance: Curating Together towards Sovereignty in Taiwan and Beyond.' His research relates to contemporary Indigenous curatorial practice and aesthetics, focusing on Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art. Ismahasan emphasises issues of participation, performativity and the historiography of Indigenous curation and exhibition design. He has received a MA in Cultural Policy, Relations & Diplomacy from the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014.
His most notable curatorial projects include Dispossessions: An Indigenous Performative Encounter 2014–2019, an international performance art exchange of Indigenous artists from Taiwan. He was a curatorial assistant of Let The River Flow: The Sovereign Will And The Making of A New Worldliness at Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo (April 2018); he has curated Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art at Goldsmiths (May 2018); he had curated yearly theme-based exhibition Ngahi’s Routes: When Depth Become Experiment which have collaborated with seven Taiwanese Indigenous artists at the Taoyuan City Indigenous Cultural Centre (February and December 2019); he recently curated the Rukai Nation installation artist Eleng Luluan’s Between Dream in Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel at the second exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s series of presentations of contemporary international Indigenous art (November 2019 and October 2020); Resurgence and Solidarity: Indigenous Taiwanese Women's Art at Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Park (March and May 2021) - digital presentation collaborated with ORIGINS: Festival of First Nations in London funded by British Council (March 2021 ~ March 2022); Biung will play a pivotal role in the artistic development as a Co-curator of Aluaiy Kaumakan's project (Paiwan Nation, Paridrayan Community, Taiwan) together with artistic director José Roca and Wiradjuri curator Hannah Donnelly at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (March and June 2022).
Curatorial project Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art (2018) is an international performance art exchange of Indigenous artists from Taiwan. The first research-based exhibition of Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art in the UK was curated by Biung Ismahasan in the Lower Atrium Space of Professor Stuart Hall Building at Goldsmiths, University of London www.gold.ac.uk/icce/ . This exhibition, performances and event series exploring the essential, expressive and ethno-aestheic nature of Taiwanese Indigenous cultures. An Indigenous counter of performativity across London. International collaborative curatorial project for Taiwanese Indigenous Rukai Nation artist Eleng Luluan 安聖惠 at Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel which is 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 from 8 November 2019 to 4 October 2020.
Bunun Nation Independent Curator, Artist and Researcher based in Taiwan
PhD in Curating, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Department of Art History and Theory,
School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, UK
英國艾塞克斯大學 (SPAH, Essex) | 哲學與藝術史學院 策展學研究中心 策展學博士
蘇格蘭愛丁堡大學 (Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh) | 藝術學院 當代藝術學類博士 (MPhil/PhD in Art) 博士班第一年升等
倫敦大學金匠學院 (ICCE, Goldsmiths) | 創意文化創業研究中心 文化政策、關係與外交碩士
台灣視覺藝術協會理事 2021 ~
台東縣政府原住民青年文化觀察團藝術文化專家委員 2021 ~
國際當代藝術策展人協會 (註冊於德國) | www.iktsite.org IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art Active Member 2017 ~ Present
南方藝術評論研究成員 | 觀察員藝文田野檔案庫 December 2020 ~ Present
b.ismahasan@essex.ac.uk / biung1984@gmail.com
www.essex.ac.uk/people/ISMAH65405/biung-ismahasan
Ningni Guest House / Ningni First Nations Residency in Namasia, Kaohsiung of the southern Taiwan www.facebook.com/ningniguesthouse/