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Working with Live Art, dance, and queer culture, Paris-based Taiwanese artist River Lin is Curator of the Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM, Camping Asia and Curatoké: Performance Curator Academy at the Taipei Performing Arts Center.
He is Co-Artistic Director of Something Great, a Berlin-based organisation with a new arts center coming up in 2026; Co-Curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival (since 2022), Guest-Curator of the 2025 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, and Guest Co-Editor for the OnCurating Journal. His artistic work has been presented internationally by Centre Pompidou, Centre National de la Danse, Live Art Prize, M+ Museum, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum among others.
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Based in Paris & Taipei, River Lin (b. 1984) is an artist and curator working across the contexts of performance, dance and queer culture. He is currently Curator at Taipei Performing Arts Center for Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM and Camping Asia; Co-curator of Indonesian Dance Festival; Guest Curator of La Biennale de la Danse of Lyon 2025; Co-Artistic Director of Something Great, a Berlin-based organisation with a new arts center coming up in 2026.
He is Shortlisted Artist for the 2022 Live Art Prize and since 2023 he has served at Advisory Board of ANTI Contemporary Art Festival.
His work’s been commissioned or presented by arts institutions and festivals, including Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, and Centre National de la Danse (Paris), Actoral festival & Mucem (Marseille), the KANAL Centre Pompidou & KAAI Theatre (Brussels), Live Art Development Agency (London), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Tokyo Real Underground Festival, Asia Contemporary Art Week (New York/ Dubai), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), the Rockbund Art Museum, Ming Contemporary Art Museum and TANK (Shanghai), the 2020 Taiwan Biennial, 2016 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the Liveworks Festival (Sydney) among others.
His recent curatorial projects include The Non-fungible Body for Upper Austria State Museums in Linz (with Freda Fiala), 2022 BLEED Biennial (with Arts House Melbourne & Campbelltown arts center), 2057: Rehearsing Ways of Living (National Theatre of Taiwan, 2022), Re:Play (C-Lab Taiwan, 2020), and Taiwan Program at TPAM Fringe (Yokohama, 2018) among others.
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Working with Live Art, dance, and queer culture, Paris-based Taiwanese artist River Lin is Curator of the Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM, Camping Asia and Curatoké: Performance Curator Academy at the Taipei Performing Arts Center.
He is Co-Artistic Director of Something Great, a Berlin-based organisation with a new arts center coming up in 2026; Co-Curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival (since 2022), Guest-Curator of the 2025 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, and Guest Co-Editor for the OnCurating Journal. His artistic work has been presented internationally by Centre Pompidou, Centre National de la Danse, Live Art Prize, M+ Museum, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum among others.
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Based in Paris & Taipei, River Lin (b. 1984) is an artist and curator working across the contexts of performance, dance and queer culture. He is currently Curator at Taipei Performing Arts Center for Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM and Camping Asia; Co-curator of Indonesian Dance Festival; Guest Curator of La Biennale de la Danse of Lyon 2025; Co-Artistic Director of Something Great, a Berlin-based organisation with a new arts center coming up in 2026.
He is Shortlisted Artist for the 2022 Live Art Prize and since 2023 he has served at Advisory Board of ANTI Contemporary Art Festival.
His work’s been commissioned or presented by arts institutions and festivals, including Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, and Centre National de la Danse (Paris), Actoral festival & Mucem (Marseille), the KANAL Centre Pompidou & KAAI Theatre (Brussels), Live Art Development Agency (London), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Tokyo Real Underground Festival, Asia Contemporary Art Week (New York/ Dubai), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), the Rockbund Art Museum, Ming Contemporary Art Museum and TANK (Shanghai), the 2020 Taiwan Biennial, 2016 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and the Liveworks Festival (Sydney) among others.
His recent curatorial projects include The Non-fungible Body for Upper Austria State Museums in Linz (with Freda Fiala), 2022 BLEED Biennial (with Arts House Melbourne & Campbelltown arts center), 2057: Rehearsing Ways of Living (National Theatre of Taiwan, 2022), Re:Play (C-Lab Taiwan, 2020), and Taiwan Program at TPAM Fringe (Yokohama, 2018) among others.
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River Lin est un artiste qui travaille dans les contextes de l'art visuel, de la danse et de la culture queer par le biais de la création, de la recherche et de la conservation.
Il est actuellement curateur au Taipei Performing Arts Center pour le Taipei Arts Festival, l'ADAM et Camping Asia ; co-curateur du Indonesian Dance Festival ; curateur invité de La Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2025.
Il met en scène des œuvres dans des galeries sous forme de chorégraphies, de rencontres ou de situations élargies afin de spéculer sur les notions d'histoires hétéronormatives, d'engagement social et de performativité des médiums.
Le travail de River a été présenté par le Centre Pompidou, le Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, le Centre National de la Danse (Paris), KANAL Centre Pompidou (Bruxelles), ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio), Live Art Development Agency (Londres), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Asia Contemporary Art Week (New York/Dubai), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), 2016 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Tokyo Real Underground Festival et Liveworks Festival (Sydney), entre autres.
Il est commissaire d'événements et de festivals internationaux tels que Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM), Musée de la danse de Taipei, et Camping Asia en collaboration avec le Centre National de la Danse. En 2022, il co-organisera la Biennale Bleed en Australie, le festival de danse d'Indonésie et le festival Non-fungible Body pour les musées d'État de Haute-Autriche à Linz.
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跨足行為藝術、視覺藝術、舞蹈、社會參與及酷兒文化等脈絡，林人中的藝術實踐包括研究、創作與策展。2023年起擔任台北藝術節策展人、2022年起擔任印尼舞蹈節共同策展人，現亦為2025里昂舞蹈雙年展客座策展人。
他是2022 歐洲Live Art Prize 入圍藝術家。作品於各地藝術機構與藝術節呈現，包括巴黎龐畢度中心、東京宮美術館、拉法葉基金會Anticipations美術館、法國國家舞蹈中心、東京Tokyo Real Underground藝術節、布魯塞爾龐畢度中心、倫敦現場藝術發展協會、芬蘭ANTI當代藝術節、亞洲當代藝術週、上海外灘美術館、明當代美術館、油罐藝術中心、柏林行為藝術月、芝加哥行為藝術節、格拉斯哥現場藝術節、2016台北雙年展、2020台灣雙年展、雪梨Liveworks藝術節等。
曾受邀擔任2017芬蘭現場藝術獎決選團評審。同年，他與台北表演藝術中心合作創辦「亞當計畫」，促進亞太地區藝術家的合作與交流。他曾於2018橫濱TPAM藝穗節策劃台灣項目；2019年與法國國家舞蹈中心共同策劃Camping Asia藝術節。2022年，他策劃了林茲州立美術館The Non-fungible Body藝術節、澳洲BLEED數位雙年展等。
1984年生於台北，林人中現旅居巴黎。
Il est actuellement curateur au Taipei Performing Arts Center pour le Taipei Arts Festival, l'ADAM et Camping Asia ; co-curateur du Indonesian Dance Festival ; curateur invité de La Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2025.
Il met en scène des œuvres dans des galeries sous forme de chorégraphies, de rencontres ou de situations élargies afin de spéculer sur les notions d'histoires hétéronormatives, d'engagement social et de performativité des médiums.
Le travail de River a été présenté par le Centre Pompidou, le Palais de Tokyo, Lafayette Anticipations, le Centre National de la Danse (Paris), KANAL Centre Pompidou (Bruxelles), ANTI Contemporary Art Festival (Kuopio), Live Art Development Agency (Londres), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), Asia Contemporary Art Week (New York/Dubai), Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), 2016 Taipei Biennial, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Tokyo Real Underground Festival et Liveworks Festival (Sydney), entre autres.
Il est commissaire d'événements et de festivals internationaux tels que Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance (ADAM), Musée de la danse de Taipei, et Camping Asia en collaboration avec le Centre National de la Danse. En 2022, il co-organisera la Biennale Bleed en Australie, le festival de danse d'Indonésie et le festival Non-fungible Body pour les musées d'État de Haute-Autriche à Linz.
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跨足行為藝術、視覺藝術、舞蹈、社會參與及酷兒文化等脈絡，林人中的藝術實踐包括研究、創作與策展。2023年起擔任台北藝術節策展人、2022年起擔任印尼舞蹈節共同策展人，現亦為2025里昂舞蹈雙年展客座策展人。
他是2022 歐洲Live Art Prize 入圍藝術家。作品於各地藝術機構與藝術節呈現，包括巴黎龐畢度中心、東京宮美術館、拉法葉基金會Anticipations美術館、法國國家舞蹈中心、東京Tokyo Real Underground藝術節、布魯塞爾龐畢度中心、倫敦現場藝術發展協會、芬蘭ANTI當代藝術節、亞洲當代藝術週、上海外灘美術館、明當代美術館、油罐藝術中心、柏林行為藝術月、芝加哥行為藝術節、格拉斯哥現場藝術節、2016台北雙年展、2020台灣雙年展、雪梨Liveworks藝術節等。
曾受邀擔任2017芬蘭現場藝術獎決選團評審。同年，他與台北表演藝術中心合作創辦「亞當計畫」，促進亞太地區藝術家的合作與交流。他曾於2018橫濱TPAM藝穗節策劃台灣項目；2019年與法國國家舞蹈中心共同策劃Camping Asia藝術節。2022年，他策劃了林茲州立美術館The Non-fungible Body藝術節、澳洲BLEED數位雙年展等。
1984年生於台北，林人中現旅居巴黎。