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::: YOU AND I DON'T LIVE ON THE SAME PLANET
Taipei Biennial 2020
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Taipei Biennial 2020
The districts of Shilin and Beitou, right next to today’s Taipei?Fine Arts Museum, used to be the military and administration?center of the KMT regime. This historical context can be traced?further back to the Japanese colonial era. Both governments?deployed symbolic, political, and military infrastructures to?define the two areas and place local citizens under urveillance?between 1920 and 1990. A country’s ability to project soft power can be directly measured?by the power of its media, in particular its movie industry.?That industry must also be a diverse one, and a telling sign of?this is the production of science fiction films. China’s movie?industry, while growing immensely in recent years, still cannot?match the power of Hollywood, and China has only recently?begun releasing science fiction epics. Taiwan’s movie industry?has never produced an epic science fiction film. This project?aims to be that film. The planet SECURITY emerged thanks to people like Steve?Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, who directed?numerous documentary films that shaped alt-right propaganda.?Jonas Staal presents a retrospective of Bannon’s work by?methodically dissecting the mechanisms of the ultra-right?propaganda that depicts a grim image of a decadence to come.?The films depict a future frighteningly beset by economic crises,?Islamic fundamentalism, and secular hedonism, and propound?the idea that only a strong leader can serve as a rampart in?defense of family values, Christian faith, military might, and,?of course, the US economy.
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PLANET SECURITY

Where do all the people who feel lost and betrayed by the ideal of globalization go? The general tendency is to ask for a piece of land, or for a border, or for a safe haven where we can live protected against others! This is the discourse proposed by the populist movements that have taken hold in many countries. Another impossible dream: living on your own, ignoring all the humans and non-humans on which you depend.

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