關於計畫
Shelter of Arts｜島嶼擁抱 是一項關注藝術家、文化工作者與文化空間如何回應不確定、流離、政治壓力與危機的研究與文化行動計畫。
計畫透過田野研究、訪談、書寫、公共活動與資源盤點，持續追蹤台灣與亞洲之間，照護、移動、庇護與創作延續如何被建立與支持。我們不只把「庇護」理解為一個實體空間，也關注關係、文化場域與跨國網絡，如何在關鍵時刻成為支撐彼此的力量。
「島嶼擁抱」並不希望建立另一個中心，而是想像一個彼此連結的群島網絡：當移動變得困難時，島嶼之間仍能彼此接住、轉介、陪伴，並保留下一個可以停靠與重新出發的地方。
讓島嶼彼此接住，讓路徑繼續延伸。
計畫預計執行內容
「Shelter of Arts｜島嶼擁抱」將透過研究、交流與公共行動，逐步梳理台灣與亞洲在藝術文化庇護、移動與支持上的可能路徑。計畫預計包含：
- 田野研究與案例走訪：拜訪藝術進駐空間、文化組織、藝術家庇護計畫與相關網絡，理解不同地區如何回應戰爭、流離、政治壓力與危機。
- 藝術家與文化工作者訪談：記錄流離、移動與重新建立創作生活的經驗，也關注支持者、策展人與文化空間在其中扮演的角色。
- 公共論壇與對話：邀請亞洲及國際藝術家、研究者與文化組織分享實務經驗，討論庇護、文化流動、照護與創作延續。
- 台灣與亞洲資源盤點：整理文化空間、藝術進駐、法律與移民資訊、資金支持、專業網絡及跨國轉介資源，探索彼此串連的可能。
- 研究書寫與案例文章：以田野觀察、案例研究與文化評論的方式，持續書寫藝術庇護、文化基礎設施、流離美學與文化韌性等議題。
- 線上平台與知識分享：透過網站整理文章、案例、活動與相關資源，讓分散的經驗與資訊能夠被看見、持續更新與流通。
- 區域網絡連結：從台灣出發，逐步連結亞洲與國際文化組織，思考當藝術家需要移動、停留或重新出發時，如何讓不同島嶼與節點彼此接住。
About the Project
Shelter of Arts | Island Embrace is a research and cultural initiative exploring how artists, cultural workers, and cultural spaces respond to uncertainty, displacement, political pressure, and crisis.
Through field research, conversations, writing, public programmes, and resource mapping, the project traces how care, mobility, sheltering, and creative continuity are sustained across Taiwan and Asia. It looks beyond shelter as a physical place, asking how relationships, cultural spaces, and transnational networks can become forms of support.
Rather than building a new centre, Island Embrace imagines a constellation of connected places: islands that can receive, support, refer, and accompany one another when movement becomes difficult.
Islands that hold, paths that continue.
Planned Activities
Shelter of Arts | Island Embrace brings together research, exchange, and public engagement to explore how artistic sheltering, mobility, and cultural support can be strengthened across Taiwan and Asia.
The project will include:
- Field research and case visits: visiting artist residencies, cultural organisations, sheltering initiatives, and regional networks to understand how different places respond to war, displacement, political pressure, and crisis.
- Interviews with artists and cultural workers: documenting experiences of displacement, mobility, and rebuilding creative life, while also looking at the roles played by curators, cultural spaces, and support organisations.
- Public talks and conversations: inviting artists, researchers, and cultural organisations from Asia and beyond to exchange practical experiences around sheltering, cultural mobility, care, and creative continuity.
- Resource mapping across Taiwan and Asia: identifying cultural spaces, artist residencies, legal and migration information, funding opportunities, professional networks, and possible referral pathways.
- Research writing and case-based articles: publishing field observations, case studies, and cultural essays on artistic sheltering, cultural infrastructure, displacement aesthetics, and cultural resilience.
- Online platform and knowledge sharing: using the website to gather articles, cases, events, and resources so that dispersed knowledge can remain visible, accessible, and continuously updated.
- Regional network building: connecting cultural organisations across Taiwan, Asia, and international networks, and exploring how different places might support, receive, or refer artists when they need to move, stay, or begin again.