Taipei Times
AsiaPac · 7 mins ago
Taiwan protests S Korean biennale over name change
‘POLITICAL CENSORSHIP’: International audiences would see how Taiwanese artists respond to information warfare and geopolitics through their works, an artist said By Ling Mei-hsueh and Fion Khan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA Add TT as Preferred Source Taiwan yesterday reiterated its protest over the removal of “Taiwan” from the Gwangju Biennale pavilion name as participating Taiwanese artists condemned the move as political censorship. The 16th Gwangju Biennale is scheduled to take place in South Korea from Sept. 5 to Nov. 15. For the first time, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts proposed participating under the name “Taiwan Pavilion.” However, promotional materials on the biennale’s official Web site changed the name to “NTMOFA,” the museum’s English acronym, effective
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