Jau-lan Guo
GUO Jau-lan is an independent curator and art critic based in Taipei. As an Adjunct Associate Professor, Guo teaches Modern Art and Contemporary Art at the MFA Program in New Media Art and Graduate Institute of Trans-disciplinary Arts, Taipei National University of Arts. Her curatorial involvement began in 2006, with a focus on the cultural praxis of image, visual culture and Sound Art. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Garde Documenta (National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2006), Nostalgia for Future (2009, Taichung), Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue (Taipei, 2010), Paradise: Under RE-Construction (ISCP, New York, 2011), and Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project) (ISCP, New York, 2011), How Can I Tell You Who I Am?(Spain, 2012), Melancholy in Progress, The 3rd Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition at Hong-Gah Museum of Taipei (Co-curated with Amy Cheng , Taipei, 2012), 2015 Experimental Media Arts Festival in Taiwan: Habitation and Elsewhere（Taipei and Kuala Lumpur, 2015）, Between Islands(Spain, 2015), Sound Exercise (Taipei, 2015). Guo is the translator of the traditional Chinese version Art Power by Boris Groys.
- Location USA / New York, NY
- Year of the Grant 2011
- Residency International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
- Personal Website Jau-lan Guo's Personal Website
A pure domestic experience in Taiwan seems to be increasingly limiting to someone who is determined to be a professional art curator, where even local contemporary art shall view the whole world as its artistic dialogues. That was why I applied to the artist-in-residency program abroad. I learned, however, that ‘the world’ was not necessarily ‘in the contrary to’ Taiwan as it was not necessarily ‘outside of’ Taiwan either.
The highlights of the ISCP program were the two Open Studio events in each year. I was the curator for a small video exhibition, Paradise: Under RE-construction, at one of the Open Studio events. The exhibition had the highest attendance on the opening day and became a topic of discussion the next day. Such as, ‘I heard Jau-Lan’s space was completely jammed last night!!’ During my residency, I frequently visited artists’ studios and was engaged in the arts activities of New York City. I also visited the art organization, Washing Project for the Arts, in Washington DC by recommendations of ISCP for interviews.