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sculpture called "Unlimited
Minimalism" of Li Zai-qian repainted in silver. As a form of late justice, in 2006 a red sculpture called "Homerun" was permanently installed on the plaza facing the main entrance. In 1988 performance artist Lee Ming-Sheng was beaten up by museum guards when he brought a glass of his feces to a public discussion during the "World of Dada" exhibition, which also featured
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Since the mid-1990s, the TFAM's mission changed to promoting a
Taiwanese identity in contemporary art, most visibly by organizing a national Taiwanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, and by dedicating the Taipei Biennial to the question of Taiwanese identity. In 1996 the largest ever Taipei Biennial
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The TFAM has a rather interesting institutional history of interaction with the local art scene. In 1986 the first director, Su Rui-ping, had to step down after she had eliminated the installation of artist Zhang Jianfu from an "experimental" exhibition with her own feet, and in 1985 had a red metal
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under the title Site of Desire in 1998. Since 2000 the international curator is invited to choose a local co- curator, who then selects five to six local artists to participate at Taiwan's most prestigious art event. After 2000, funding and institutional backing for the Taipei
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passport or equivalent ancestry. This national, competition style, exhibition was replaced in 1992 by the Taipei
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first exhibition abroad. It was held in Japan and was entitled "Message from Taipei". One of the most prominent of these national exhibitions abroad was held in 1996/1997 in Aachen at the Museum Ludwig and in Berlin at the
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