Taipei Fine Arts Museum will present 3x3x6 as Taiwan’s representation at the 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2019. The exhibition features artist Shu Lea Cheang (CRF 2001)’s brand-new commissioned project 3x3x6, curated by Paul B. Preciado. Guided tours will be available twice a day during opening hours from May 11– August 27, 2019.
Soon after the World Wide Web was made available for public access in 1990, artist Shu Lea Cheang, armed with her creativity and imagination, embarked on a journey to expand new media beyond known functions of digital communication. She connected virtual networks with spaces in the real world and initiated creative, performative, and action-based projects. Internationally recognized as an Internet art pioneer, Cheang explores the changing relationships between technology and body politics in the age of late capitalism and globalization.
For Taiwan’s collateral presentation Cheang will create a new work inspired by the history of the exhibition venue, Palazzo delle Prigioni, which first served as a prison in the sixteenth century. The work’s title refers to today’s standardized architecture of industrial imprisonment: a 3 x 3 square-meter cell constantly monitored by 6 cameras. 3x3x6 thus speaks to the realities of the prison, constructed both physically and by the presence of digital surveillance mechanisms.
On view from May 11 – November 24, featuring a public performance on May 11.