On Taipei Arts Festival with Tang Fu Kuen
about 67 months ago (10/25/2018)
On Taipei Arts Festival with Tang Fu Kuen | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 25, 2018 By Yuka Sugiyama (480 words, three-minute read) The Taipei Arts Festival (TAF) began in 1998 as one of the main festivals in Taipei to mark the city’s contemporary consciousness through the staging of multiple artistic activities for international and national audiences. This year the TAF celebrates it 20th anniversary with a transformation: it combines with two other city festivals, the Taipei Children’s Festival and Taipei Fringe Festival, under the banner of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC), scheduled to open in in 2021. For this special occasion, the Singaporean curator, Tang Fu Kuen, was appointed as the first foreigner to take on the role of artistic director in the two decades of the festival’s history.