Between events
What remains after an event ends
People use bookshops, studios, artist-run spaces, and ancestral houses to make, perform, discuss, and keep work.
Bookshops, artist-organized spaces, studios, ancestral houses, performance rooms, and cafés provide places to make, discuss, perform, and keep work.
Size, an independent label, or government support cannot by itself explain how a place works. Ownership, labor, programming, access, economics, and local relationships still need reporting.
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Children in Wang'an turn milk cartons into paper. Wang Wu brings calligraphy and Nanguan into woodcut. Ho Bin Kim works with Korean migration through Keelung Harbor, and Yvonne Chen makes ceramic animals that began in picture books.
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Five works hang with generous space between them on the first-floor wall: the mountain, elder, fish, calligraphy, and one more dark image.
Ting Bookstore
Its shelves and long table sit beside a permanent sound exhibition, a café, a sound workspace, and a recording room.
Little Island Universe
Cao Kai-zhi and Li Ruo-mei spent four years rebuilding a collapsed ancestral house before it could hold paintings, fired cups, food, and visitors.
A milk carton is easier to empty than to recycle on Wang'an
The paper begins with milk cartons that are difficult to move through Wang'an's recycling system. Tsan's work there with children and reused materials predates this exchange.
Fengsheng Bookstore
No minimum spend, comics and ghost stories included, and a room kept open by the sound work its owner does elsewhere.