modulus foundation

The 2nd Modern Body Festival biennial featured a collaboration with DEZACT architectural platform from Taiwan/London. For this edition, we developed a reciprocal format:

• Space Media Festival, a DEZACT/NTUST-led, MBF-infected, 11-day workshop-driven festival in Taiwan, with a final showcase on the last day,

• Modern Body Festival 2016, an MBF-led, DEZACT/NTUST-infected, 5-day showcase-driven festival in The Hague, with accompanying workshops (3 days of thematic 1-day workshops and symposia, and 2 days of exhibitions and performances).

Space Media Festival, an initiative by Modern Body Festival and DEZACT , was an 11-day festival of multiple small- to large-scale activities focusing on avant-garde experimentations traversing fields of art, architecture and urbanism.  It involved public, educational, professional and inter-disciplinary participants and audience, and engaged with multiple locations and sites in Taipei and Taiwan as part of its agenda of in-situ making and direct intervention.  In view of the significant World Design Capital 2016 Taipei, the festival offered an expanded platform of innovative and visionary ideas, design projects and public debates on the position of technology in art, architecture, city and culture.

Space Media Festival 2016 aimed to poise Taiwan at the crux of the Asian creative network, as well as to connect to dialogues and collaborations on the international scene, in propelling imaginative ideas and visionary experimentations in the future of art, architecture, culture and city.

Space Media Festival consisted of multiple small- to large-scale activities focusing on avant-garde experimentations traversing fields of art, architecture and urbanism. The festival took the form of a 9-day workshop-festivaal – where 4 invited artist-architect teams led participants in creating new works – a full day symposium and a 2-week open-air, public exhibition. The festival aimed to involve public, educational, professional and inter-disciplinary participants and audience, as well as to engage with Toad Hill, a contested site in Taipei, as part of its agenda of in-situ making and direct intervention.

Studio 1: Flow 
Jeroen van Ameijde (UK/NL) + Luis Rodil-Fernández (NL/ES)

Studio 2: Gem of Lives 
Satoru Sugihara (US/JP) +  Mike Rijnierse(NL)

Studio 3: Body Maze 
Ludmila Rodrigues (NL/BR) + Jen-Hwang Ho (TW)

Studio 4: The Woven Memory 
Manuel Jiménez García (UK/ES) + Wei-Chieh Shih (TW) + Christina Dahdaleh (UK/JO)