Curated by Franzine (Yen-Ju) Chen

Collaborators: Amara Karapas (Featured Artist), Rho McGuire (Performance Artist), Hsu Yuan-Cheng (Sound Collaboration), Bertram Huang (Graphic Design)

Venue: Civic House, Glasgow

Exhibition Dates: 3–4 August 2026

Opening & Live Performance: 3 August, 14:00

A Vivid Confluence: Tiânn is a site-responsive project bringing together a contemporary art exhibition and live performance. Taking Tiânn (埕), a spatial concept rooted in Tâi-gí (台語, Taiwanese Hokkien language) and everyday culture, as its starting point, the project explores how this socially embedded space—with its particular geographical and cultural contexts—might be translated through cross-cultural artistic collaboration into a contemporary curatorial context in Glasgow.

Led by Taiwanese curator Franzine (Yen-Ju) Chen, the project brought together four artists from Taiwan, Scotland and the United States through an approximately two-month collaborative process, culminating in a public presentation at Civic House, Glasgow, from 3–4 August 2026. Rather than attempting to reproduce or reconstruct the specifically Taiwanese customs and cultural imagery associated with Tiânn, the project asks: Could the spatial and social logics embedded within Tiânn offer an alternative framework for thinking about the exhibition as a place of gathering and encounter? Through this proposition, artistic practices shaped by different cultural and geographical contexts were brought into coexistence, interaction and negotiation, allowing new relationships to emerge.

The title A Vivid Confluence encapsulates this curatorial approach. Confluence describes a condition in which different elements meet and intersect; within the project, it refers to the bringing together of cultures, histories, memories, artistic media and sensory forms within a shared relational field, without seeking to erase their differences or tensions. Vivid, meanwhile, emphasises the everyday and embodied qualities of these encounters. The exhibition is therefore approached not as a static space for the display of objects, but as a living environment continually shaped by bodies, sounds, materials and social interactions.