Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire during World War II. This documentary, tackling this subject for the first time, endeavors to unearth and reorganize the hidden memories of World War II in Taiwan. It explores the experiences of Taiwanese soldiers and doctors...
Between 1928 and 1938, the documentary imagery of Hainan Island emerged as a contested field of visual representation characterized by a collision of cross-cultural gazes. Exploring early photography produced by Chinese Republican officials, Western anthropologists,...
How might the contemporary smart city be understood through the longer history of colonial technologies used to record, organise, and control people and their movement? This presentation uses the idea of the fluid archive to bring nineteenth-century images of...
This paper explores the ways in which Jeju and Okinawa have historically been islands of foreigners, whether by invasion or by migration. Photographers from Korea and Japan, themselves outsiders, reflect on the arrival of outsiders on these islands — not only human...
This keynote reflects on how the term overseas touches on the ecology of water and land and the migration of forms and people. Through the photographic medium that is imagined as formative, ecology and migration are brought together to evoke an archipelagic condition...
