Fwd: [Invitation] Sydney Launch, Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s 📸

[Olivier Krischer]

Dear colleagues, 

Pleased to invite you to the upcoming panel talk at UNSW Galleries, Sydney on 6 August to mark the publication of Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s - which is available Open Access on the link above and via registration page below too.

Speakers: Shuxia Chen, Alex Su and Olivier Krischer

All welcome!

regards, 

Olivier

Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s SYDNEY LAUNCH Date: Wednesday 6 August 2025  Time: 5:30–7pm  Venue: UNSW Galleries, Cnr of Oxford St and Greens Rd, Paddington, NSW 2021 Register Join editors, Olivier Krischer and Shuxia Chen, in Sydney for a conversation with contributing author Kevin Alexander Su on the evolution of photography in Taiwan from the 1950s to the 1980s. About the book Bridging a significant gap between Chinese and English language scholarship, Wayfaring explores four transformative decades of photography in Taiwan, tracing its evolution amid the island’s emergence from Japanese colonialism and integration into the Nationalist regime under martial law. In the 1950s and 1960s, photography played a pivotal role in documenting local culture and everyday life, in the hands of both professionals and amateurs. In the 1970s and 1980s, photography was witness and agent of social transformation, as well as being a vital conduit for cross-pollination in contemporary art, theatre, cinema and performance at the time. Authors include Olivier Krischer, Chen Shuxia, Mia Yinxing Liu, Kevin Alexander Su, Anne Ma Kuo-An, Chen Chia-Chi, Lee Wei-I, Tseng Shao-Chien, Liu Chen-Hsiang, Yao Jui-Chung, Tsao Liang-Pin, Hsu Fang-Tze. Download e-book Speakers Dr Chen Shuxia is a historian and curator of Chinese art and photography. She is the editor and author of A Home for Photography Learning: The Friday Salon, 1977–1980 (2024) and Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature (2024). Her curatorial projects include ‘The Trace is Not a Presence …’ (2024), ‘Sentient Paper’ (2022) and ‘Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s–80s Taiwan’ (2021). She is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW School of Art & Design. Dr Olivier Krischer is a historian and curator of art from East Asia and the Asian Australian diaspora, whose research concerns modern and contemporary transcultural art, photography and intermedia practices. His curatorial projects include ‘Assembly’ (2023), featuring eight Hong Kong-born artists, and ‘Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s–80s Taiwan’ (2021). His publications include John Young: The History Projects (2024) and Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video (2019). Krischer is a Lecturer at UNSW School of Art & Design. Dr Kevin Alexander Su is head of the Creative Industries program at UTS College, Sydney. His present research interests include Taiwanese art, photography and fashion histories. His recent writing is published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art and Fashion Theory, and he is currently a co-editor of Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion (Intellect). Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s is published by Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University (ANU). It has been generously supported by the ANU Taiwan Studies Program 2022–25, which is a partnership between the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU and the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan).

[Yin Cao]

Hi Olivier,

 

Congratulations to you and Shuxia on the book!

 

Unfortunately I am on leave the whole of August and will miss the Launch event. Look forward to seeing the book.

 

All the best,

 

Yin

 

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[Thanavi Chotpradit]

Dear Olivier, 

Congratulations to you and Shuxia on the new book and thank you for sharing the e-version!

I wish I could attend the launch. 

Let me know if you have any plans to visit Taiwan. 

Best,

Thanavi 

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