黑料不打烊

The exhibition 鈥淯nit of Interdependency鈥� initiates from the contradiction of nuclear families and communities in contemporary society. Firstly, families are the smallest units of relationships recognized by the Taiwanese legal system, and are usually considered as the fundamental units that made up human society. However, after the industrialization and urbanization of Taiwan since 1960s, the mode of production and the structure of economic has changed, and a (nuclear) family becomes more-and-more an individualized and isolated unit that is irrelevant to co-production. Secondly, since the 1990s policy of the integrated community construction, communities have sometimes been shaped into culture-economical co-dependent communities with pouring resources, and other times city nails forced to demolish under the land development or urban renewal plans. The challenges faced by nuclear families and communities today, and the assumption, according to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that human societies are constructed with small fundamental group units which should be protected by the State, remind us to re-construct a new perspective of recognising the 鈥淯nit of Interdependency鈥� as a reference for re-defining 鈥渢he fundamental group unit for constructing human societies鈥�.

Hence, through artistic collectives, atypical families, temporary settlements, and DIT (Do It Together) communities, this exhibition repetitively asks 鈥渢oday, are we able to build a society with more active/resistant agencies by the alternative knowledge-producing Unit of Interdependency?鈥�