NON-Belief: Taiwan Intelligens of Precarity

Evento Collaterale Biennale Architettura di Venezia.

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Organized by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), NON-Belief: Taiwan Intelligens of Precarity, a curatorial project by National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), will represent Taiwan at the Biennale held from May 10 to November 23, 2025, at Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice, Italy.

The curation’s title echoes the Biennale Architettura 2025's theme of “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” Inspired by the theme of the Biennale and Robert Smithson’s theory of ‘non-sites’, “NON-Belief: Taiwan Intelligens of Precarity” examines Taiwan's ‘non’-beliefs on TSMC chips, high-speed, and the relentless pursuit of efficiency and control—forces that are reshaping the world’s operations in a geopolitically precarious, globalized landscape. Taiwan offers a model of embodied intelligens in its architecture, showcasing how life adapts and transforms to create a resilient, self-sustaining island republic in our collectively uncertain and fragile future.

“Taiwan Intelligens of Precarity” presents Taiwan’s built environment as comprising localized assemblages of digitally connected, democratically paradoxical contact zones, and positions these assembled worlds as a frontline in planetary resistance against authoritarian autocracy and as an adaptive response to climate change at the Venice Biennale.