How do web-based creative practices relate across cultures and national borders?
“Framed Wormhole: Taiwanese artists on Kunst-Surfer” (working title), is a cultural and professional exchange that will culminate in an online exhibition with Taiwanese new media artists. It will feature two simultaneous In-Real-Life entrances: one in Taipei (Taiwan) and one in Basel (Switzerland).
The project was born out of Kenneth and Chiara’s participation in the Shared Campus Semester Programme “Transcultural Collaboration 2021”. The title combines the speculative structure of a wormhole linking disparate points in spacetime with the use of frames in advertisements and “new media”.
The exhibition uses online advertisements both as an object of reflection and as a platform to be hijacked to start a discussion on their circulation dynamics. The online exhibition shows new work by young Taiwanese New Media/Digital artists selected by the curatorial team via open call. It is hosted by “Kunst-Surfer”, an online curatorial platform created and run by a Switzerland-based collective of curators and designers, including Chiara Giardi. “Kunst-Surfer” is a browser ad-blocker extension that, instead of just hiding advertisements, replaces them with curated artistic content.