Silke has been invited to deliver a public lecture at the Deutsches Haus at New York University titled “Olfactory Arts in a Warming World”. Following the lecture, she will be in conversation with Zachary Samalin and Brandon Woolf.
Silke will present her current research at the Odouros Objects conference at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Freda presents ”Wound to Wall Text – Remembering Taiwan’s Late Martial Law Years in Museum Narratives” at the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Annual Conference at the University of Portsmouth. The paper explores how body-based, site-responsive artistic practices are translated into museum narratives through processes of sensory mediation, reshaping how Taiwan’s late martial law period is felt, perceived, […]
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 […]