Huang Sunquan
Huang Sunquan is a scholar, curator and artist renowned for his interdisciplinary approach. He is a professor at CAA and is the Director of the Instiute of Network Society within the School of Intermedia Art. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from National Taiwan University, and has had teaching appointments at several universities across Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Huang founded the avant guard Pots Weekly in 1994 and served as Chief Editor. His directorial debut, Our New Homeland (1997), documented the inaugural Chinese resistance to demolition and urban renewal, with screenings at art biennials and theatres in over twenty cities across Asia. Huang’s oeuvre, predominantly centers on networks, space, mobility, landless love (non-topophilia), and the discourse of the underprivileged. His work has been featured in the Taipei Biennial, Shanghai Biennial, Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Festival d’Avignon in France, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, and the CAFAM Biennale at CAFA in China. His notable curatorial projects include Lulu Shur-tzy Hou Solo Exhibition — Look toward the other side — Song of Asian Foreign Brides in Taiwan III (2010), Out of Place — A Trilogy on Kaohsiung Military Dependents’ Villages: Lulu Shur-tzy Hou Solo Exhibition (2017), and Acts Without Effort – The Societal Architecture of Hsieh Ying-Chun (2018), among others. His publications include Green Bulldozer, Unless We Seek Beauty (《除非我们寻找美丽》) and Architecture and Utopia, with translations like DIY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain, Social Media Abyss. His editorial works include The Cultural Annals of Greater Taipei, Soul Dreams of Mud: Hidden Souls of the City, and as the Chief Editor for the Network Society Series, he edited Art in the Anthropocene – Stiegler’s Lectures at the China Academy of Art, Let’s Platform Cooperativism, and Essays from the Network Socieyt Annual Conference, among others. He is widely recognized as an ‘artivist’ straddling the realms of architecture, media, social movements, and the arts.
Huang Sunquan has been actively involved in ICAST’s curatorial projects, forums, and teaching activities. He organized the academic forum Hanart 100: Idiosyncrasies/3 Parallel Artworlds and served as the Convener of the Till We Have Faces at the Inter-Asia Biennial Summit in Shanghai. He researches and teaches courses on network society, one of ICAST’s core concerns. Since establishing the Institute of Network Society Research in 2015 and becoming its Director, he has organized several annual conferences and international lectures on network society as well as a series of mandatory ICAST courses on “Thesis Writing Methods”.