Curated by Larry Lee
Spotlight Series Made in Taiwan | 台灣製造 temporarily re-brands the Chinese American Museum of Chicago into a product. Utilizing the “COOL” or Country-of-Origin-Label for ‘Made in Taiwan’ as a commentary on the social and material contexts of our contemporary digital connectivity, or lack thereof. As one of multiple interventions throughout the institutional space of the museum, Taiwanese-Chinese-American and Cuban artists Cathy Hsiao and Nestor Siré further re-imagine the Spotlight gallery as an alternative production studio for an iPhone supply chain, but one from the perspective of Taiwan and Cuba as particularly contested sites of technological production and access. They propose a horizontal model of the speculative, the serious, the absurd and otherwise. Taking porcelain and recycled plastic as material cues they reframe the supply chain of the iPhone into a socio-material one revealing in the process how social and cultural economies thrive under conditions of political and economic erasure.
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