Lingering Regimes: Tracing Extractive Histories in Taiwan’s Cultural Memory and Artistic Production
June 4 – June 6
Freda presents ”Lingering Regimes: Tracing Extractive Histories in Taiwan’s Cultural Memory and Artistic Production” at the Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte at the University of Zurich. Focusing on camphor as a sensory and historical medium, the paper traces how Taiwan’s extractive modernities are remembered, sanitised, or unsettled across museums, heritage sites, and contemporary artistic practices. By treating smell as archive, atmosphere, and irritant, it asks how olfactory encounters can reopen colonial histories and reframe the ethical terms through which democratic cultural memory is negotiated.