Art Replaces War (18 solo exhibitions)
11 September 2004 – 10 January 2005
Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art
Nanshan Fortification, where the bunker spaces will house installations, video and sound for the BMoCA exhibtion
Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang
Kinmen Island, Taiwan
Media Contact: Sarah Bacon, 212.995.0908
sarah@caiguoqiang.com
Artists: Chai Min-leong, Chang Yongho, Da Lun Wei Art Squad, Fei Dawei, Lee
Shi-Chi Studio, Lee Mingwei, Lin Hsing-Yueh, Liu Xiaodong, Shen Yuan, Tan Dun,
Su-mei Tse, Wang Jian Wei, Wang Wen-Chih, Tung Wang Wu, Yao Chien, Yin Ling,
Ying Bo, Zeng Li.
For the Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art- 18 Solo Exhibitions (BMoCA) Taiwanese and Chinese artists-painters, filmmakers, architects & composers-transform cold war-era defenses to promote the future of Kinmen Island, the former Taiwanese military stronghold in the ongoing cross-Strait conflict. Curated by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, BmoCA’s site-specific installations, produced amidst minefields and inflamed relations between Taiwan and mainland China, are a gesture of regional collaboration, a gift to the people of Kinmen and, as the island looks towards the future, one proposal for the preservation of Kinmen’s unique martial history as well as its reinvention.