The news of the Philippines' possible involvement if China invades Taiwan broke out while I was preparing for a trip to Taiwan for the ArtsEquator
By Jay RosasThe news of the Philippines’ possible involvement if China invades Taiwan broke out while I was preparing for a trip to Taiwan for the ArtsEquator Fellowship Critics Network. The statement came out of nowhere and yet the alarmist tenor that speaks of the imminent threat of Chinese military presence in Taiwanese waters is hard to shake off.
And yet this distance also afforded me a certain freedom from precarious time and reality. The next days of learning and exchange made me contemplate my role as a critic and cultural worker in my own arts community, and in a region within the nation. Thrust into a country where institutional support for arts and writing is strong, I also had to make sense of a relational distance, as the experience of Taiwan Week 2025 gave me a series of firsts.
Chou, also a playwright, finds VR’s affinity more to theater. But the film combines theatrical staging with the observational rigor of documentary cinema that summoning cinematic terms to describe VR’s distinct immersive quality and visuality is inevitable. Chou, who has made non-VR films before, mentions the Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang, whose slow-cinema aesthetic is palpable here.
Just like the performances and VR films we saw, Taiwan’s performance, exhibition, and overall creative spaces evoke tradition and futurity in form and imagination, weaving the past and present into these locations of artistic locutions. Ideas thrive, intersections explored, and possible futures continue to be mapped.
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