Dreamin’
Since 2015, MoNTUE has launched “Dreamin’ MoNTUE,” a biennial global open call program that supports new-generation artists with professional resource and assistance of an art museum.
The program transforms the museum into an experimental stage for artists and dissolves the boundaries between “people,” “museum space” and “artistic creation” with the objective of facilitating their integration and dialogue while exploring the “unknownness” of prismatic interdisciplinary practices.
In 2017, the first edition of Dreamin’ MoNTUE presented The Serene Gallery by Yeh Ming-Hwa and Masingkiay by Fangas Nayaw. Both exhibitions introduced performing arts into the museum space and blurred the distinctions between the viewing habit of visual arts and that of performing arts to explore new forms of museum exhibitions with their interdisciplinary curatorial projects. The 2019 Dreamin’ MoNTUE showcased This is a Story from the Laundromat by Chia Chien-Ju, which amalgamated dance, sculpture, video and live installation to challenge the possibility of museum exhibitions.
The 2021 Dreamin’ MoNTUE has taken place in the midst of the pandemic that impacted the globe. Chang Ting-Tong, however, has made use of this opportunity to initiate an online exhibition project, Soap, to not only respond to the reality of museums being forced to shut down and transform as well as the situation of excessive and inundating information, but also to re-investigate the future trends of exhibitions as the real and the virtual boundaries are now gradually disappearing.
Dreamin’ MoNTUE hopes to establish a platform of international arts and cultural exchange through the participation of emerging artists and curators from Taiwan and abroad while injecting more innovative energy into the experimentation and creation of interdisciplinary art.
MoNTUE
About MoNTUE, Museum of National Taipei University of Education
In 2011, the Museum of the National Taipei University of Education (MoNTUE) was established in a university with a century-old history. Once the Taiwan Governor-General National Language School and subsequently the Taipei Normal School, the National Taipei University of Education (NTUE) had been the cradle of Taiwan’s first generation of modern artists. Built upon the glorious heritage, the MoNTUE proactively engages in modeling and inventing its role as an art museum in a new era.
The MoNTUE sees itself as an experimental laboratory that ignites imagination and creativity. This is the place where visual arts, performing arts, films, audio arts, and technology all come together. Over the years, the MoNTUE has developed many innovative programs, including Dreamin’ MoNTUE, dedicated to support emerging artists and Dialogue, encouraging contemporary artists revisit the past and reflect upon its impact.
The MoNTUE is connected with rich academic resources, but it also breaks the boundaries of a university museum and goes beyond the campus by collaborating with the Louvre, the Tokyo University of the Arts, and the University Museum Association of Kyoto. Moreover, the MoNTUE is the only cultural institution in Asia to receive a collection of plaster casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a gift. Eleven pieces from the collection have been restored and put on permanent display in the museum galleries. The MoNTUE also offers a unique One Piece Museum museum-school collaboration project (OPM Project) which enables primary and secondary schools to use the collection pieces to create their own in-situ art museums.
“Museum…Evolves” is the principle that the MoNTUE has been following in its planning and management. Today, an art museum is fueled by the steady public participation to move forward. As a new form of art museum, the MoNTUE will continue to reshape its role in serving the needs of an ever-changing society, thus becoming a true knowledge-generating and value-creating platform.