“I should probably write an update as the issue has been resolved now,” I thought to myself days ago, but I just couldn’t get myself to think about it. This simply becomes a constant reminder that you always have to fight for who you are, more so aggressively, all the time. Nevertheless, here it is. Please note that this is much more casual in tone than the previous one, with nothing particularly critical. Feel free to treat it as my personal rant. On 25 August, Taiwan’s Min

Becoming an Acronym: Taiwan at the 2026 Gwangju Biennale In the weeks leading up to the 16th Gwangju Biennale, scheduled to open in September 2026, a dispute emerged over the name under which Taiwan would appear in the Biennale’s Pavilion program. Taiwan’s participation, organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), had been proposed, contracted, and prepared under the name “Taiwan Pavilion” since earlier this year. The first unsettling sign surfaced in a gro

I have continued reading Heonik Kwon’s Ghosts of War in Vietnam (a book I mentioned in my previous post). What struck me about Kwon’s work was how completely and carefully it establishes the material significance of ghosts without asking the reader to “believe” in them. He brings in major theories, scholars, histories, ethnographic observations, and the concrete consequences of people’s relationships with the dead, until there is very little room left to dismiss ghosts as irr