Look now: six September stops

Six exhibitions and projects open in September or continue into the month, in Penghu, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Hsinchu, and Taipei.

Wang'an, Penghu — milk cartons become paper

Between Islands and Mountains: Wang'an × Nakanojo closes on September 6 in Huazhai. Nine artists from Taiwan and Japan responded to the settlement through sculpture, video, painting, installation, and cultural research. Tsan I-Ling worked with Wang'an children to turn milk cartons, which are difficult to recycle from the island, into paper.

Open daily 10:00–16:00 at No. 132, Huazhai, Wang'an.

Taichung — images in a room

In Signal World [REC], recording also means receiving, recoding, and recursion. Five artists work with compression, surveillance, platforms, models, and feedback systems. Taiwanese artist Ssu-Chi Hou uses screens, projection, gallery light, and the viewer's position as material.

September 5–27 at 852 Art Space, Longjing. Wednesday–Sunday, 13:00–19:00. Free.

Kaohsiung — Wang Wu at New Sin Pin Pier

Wang Wu works across folk-art fieldwork, woodcut, paper cutting, calligraphy, socialist print history, and Nanguan. In Growing by Itself, she connects carving with brush and ink, and works with Nanguan's long, repeating duration.

New Sin Pin Pier lost the Yancheng rooms that held nearly thirty years of memory and moved to 146 Daren Road in March. Its exhibition programme continued.

Through September 16 at New Sin Pin Pier, 1F. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Hsinchu, looking toward Keelung — Korean migration through the port

Korean artist Ho Bin Kim's three-channel Ep.13 Reality Sandwich: Keelung Harbor uses a century-old newspaper, historical archives, contemporary Keelung, and the daily life of a Korean barber who migrated to Taiwan in 1971.

The title names Keelung; the exhibition is in Hsinchu. September 15–October 18 at Hsinchu Railway Art Village, 10:00–18:00, closed Monday. Free.

Xiao Chi, Penghu — wood, ritual, theatre, village

This year's Big Wind Blows Life Festival takes wood as its working material and brings art, environmental theatre, Xiaofa ritual performance, and other live work into Xiao Chi Village.

September 25–October 4 in Xiao Chi Village, Baisha Township.

Huashan, Taipei — Yvonne Chen at Donna Art

Huashan currently contains Taiwanese ceramic animals and oil paintings, 390 works from an international illustration prize, street circus, guitar sets, Japanese character-design history, anime pop-ups, furniture, food, and design shops.

Yvonne Chen's Time to Wander brings her paintings and ceramic figures into the same room. Animals that first appeared in books and paintings are shown here in clay.

Through September 29 at Donna Art, Huashan West 7-2. Daily 11:00–19:00. Free.