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【94th Anniversary】Art is Human Rights: 2025 Tainan International Human Rights Arts Festival Kicks Off Spectacularly
The 7th Tainan International Human Rights Arts Festival 2025, co-hosted by the National Human Rights Museum and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), held its opening ceremony on November 15. This year coincides with NCKU’s 94th anniversary. The NCKU Arts Center, as the organizer, proposed the theme “Art is Human Rights,” celebrating the idea of “doubling the joy” by pairing “art” with “human rights.” The festival features a diverse program including the exhibition PIN: Predictive, Intuitive, Narrative, post-screening discussions of documentaries, lectures, staged readings, performances, and courses on human rights issues, offering a rich and engaging experience for students, faculty, and the public.
This year’s festival emphasizes the common thread of “time consciousness” in both art and human rights, highlighting that both begin with the act of “seeing.” The opening ceremony featured a performance by Lu-Jie Lin (林陸傑), a magician and theater artist, who used magic to lead the audience into pure intuition, introducing the concept of “time consciousness.”
The exhibition PIN: Predictive, Intuitive, Narrative was specially curated by the Arts Center for this festival. “Predictive” points to future events, “Intuitive” reflects the understanding of the present, and “Narrative” recounts the past. The works of three artists — Rui-Hong Ni (倪瑞宏), De-Yu Wang (王德瑜), and Zi-Yan Chiu (邱子晏) — embody these three temporal perspectives. Rui-Hong Ni’s work “Shining Lottery Machine 《閃亮抽籤機》” does not describe the future but enters through “prediction.” De-Yu Wang’s “N 33.22” does not interpret reality but allows the audience to intuitively experience the present. Zi-Yan Chiu’s “Mandela Memory 《曼德拉記憶》” does not retell history but transforms events into narratives. Together, their works connect the three timelines of future, present, and past.
Curator Zhi-Yin Li (李之吟) emphasized that both creative consciousness and awareness of human rights are reflections of “time consciousness.” When one expresses thoughts such as “He is also human, how can this happen to him?” or “We deserve respect,” the act of speaking reflects this continuous awareness of time.
The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Director Shu-Man Chen (陳淑滿) of the National Human Rights Museum, Dean Wen-Song Chen (陳文松) of NCKU College of Liberal Arts, and Distinguished Professor Ming-Che Tang (湯銘哲) of NCKU’s Department and Graduate Institute of Physiology. NCKU Arts Center Director Min-Yuan Ma (馬敏元) delivered a speech, expressing the hope that the festival would allow “human rights” to transcend academic texts, using diverse artistic forms to metaphorically promote human rights awareness.
Exhibition Information
【Art is Human Rights】 – Exhibition PIN: Predictive, Intuitive, Narrative
Dates: November 11, 2025 to January 10, 2026; weekdays 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: NCKU Art Space (Student Activity Center 1F, Guangfu Campus, National Cheng Kung University)
This year’s festival emphasizes the common thread of “time consciousness” in both art and human rights, highlighting that both begin with the act of “seeing.” The opening ceremony featured a performance by Lu-Jie Lin (林陸傑), a magician and theater artist, who used magic to lead the audience into pure intuition, introducing the concept of “time consciousness.”
The exhibition PIN: Predictive, Intuitive, Narrative was specially curated by the Arts Center for this festival. “Predictive” points to future events, “Intuitive” reflects the understanding of the present, and “Narrative” recounts the past. The works of three artists — Rui-Hong Ni (倪瑞宏), De-Yu Wang (王德瑜), and Zi-Yan Chiu (邱子晏) — embody these three temporal perspectives. Rui-Hong Ni’s work “Shining Lottery Machine 《閃亮抽籤機》” does not describe the future but enters through “prediction.” De-Yu Wang’s “N 33.22” does not interpret reality but allows the audience to intuitively experience the present. Zi-Yan Chiu’s “Mandela Memory 《曼德拉記憶》” does not retell history but transforms events into narratives. Together, their works connect the three timelines of future, present, and past.
Curator Zhi-Yin Li (李之吟) emphasized that both creative consciousness and awareness of human rights are reflections of “time consciousness.” When one expresses thoughts such as “He is also human, how can this happen to him?” or “We deserve respect,” the act of speaking reflects this continuous awareness of time.
The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Director Shu-Man Chen (陳淑滿) of the National Human Rights Museum, Dean Wen-Song Chen (陳文松) of NCKU College of Liberal Arts, and Distinguished Professor Ming-Che Tang (湯銘哲) of NCKU’s Department and Graduate Institute of Physiology. NCKU Arts Center Director Min-Yuan Ma (馬敏元) delivered a speech, expressing the hope that the festival would allow “human rights” to transcend academic texts, using diverse artistic forms to metaphorically promote human rights awareness.
Exhibition Information
【Art is Human Rights】 – Exhibition PIN: Predictive, Intuitive, Narrative
Dates: November 11, 2025 to January 10, 2026; weekdays 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: NCKU Art Space (Student Activity Center 1F, Guangfu Campus, National Cheng Kung University)
De-Yu Wang’s work N 33.22 does not interpret reality, but rather leads the audience to “intuitively experience” it.
The opening performance featured Lu-Jie Lin, who used magic to guide the audience into pure intuition, drawing them into a sense of “temporal awareness.”
Zi-Yan Chiu’s work “Mandela’s Memory” does not retell history, but transforms events into a “narrative.”
Rui-Hong Ni’s work “The Shining Lottery Machine” does not depict the future, but rather enters through the lens of “prophecy.”
The 7th 2025 Tainan International Human Rights Arts Festival, Co-Hosted by the National Museum and NCKU
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