yesterday i went to the 2004 taipei biennial at the taipei fine arts museum. i don't know if it was just my mood yesterday, but overall i was disappointed in the show. there were some good things, but enough pieces that felt incomplete or just plain not well thought out that left me with an overall bad impression.

one thing i liked was that one of the displays of photographs was selling cheap poster sized paper prints. the show was just stacks of these, you'd walk around and look down at the work(opposed to usually looking at a photograph mounted on a wall). i suppose if you wanted to buy one, they'd just take it right off the stack on display.

i also really liked the work by apotik komik which had a great diy ethic.

in general i preferred the work on display on the second floor. there was a great video triptych about potatoes by agnes varda(i think), and a piece by an artist who's name i forget that was just objects that looked like they had been found at a thrift store. old items of clothing, clocks, records, etc. each item being tagged as to what it was. it was like looking at the remains of someone's life. a sort of mystery based on objects left behind.