Language: English
Date: March 26, 2021
Listening to: “Mystery of the Mullet” podcast episode by Decoder Ring

“The first step is to admit that we live on different planets” affirms the English translation sign in the lower floor of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The sign introduces visitors to a large room that is part information desk, part entrance to a children’s space, and part open lecture space for visiting artists. While I stood to read the sign, farther to my left sat two older Taiwanese artists leading a Q&A session with a full audience of mostly young museum goers. With no context to what the finished presentation was about and nobody with me to help translate, I couldn’t understand a word of what anyone was saying. Different planets, indeed.

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