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Advisor: Dwayne Oyler
Special Advisor: Russell Thomsen, Jason Payne.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
carmelia CHIANG: “An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap or there should be some space between them; that it produces discomfort when things were tangential. . . .” — John Baldessari

This thesis explores the implication of tangential space: the condition caused by two surfaces, either physical or implied, approaching to touch at a single point. The moment of the new kiss resolves itself in spatial discomfort, awkwardness and tension.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Amorphis (ramiro DIAZ-GRANADOS), IDEA Office (eric KAHN & russell THOMSEN), and Flab (heather FLOOD): NTCArt Museum (New Taipei City Art Museum)

Contrary to the conventional museum as an insular institution that isolates art from the life of the city surrounding it, the NTCArt seeks to generate new experiences and understandings by merging art, recreation and tourism as a compelling set of convergences. Rather than museum as a collector or storehouse of culture, the NTCArt will be a people’s art museum, a generator of culture and lifestyle that comes from the convergence of art and life.

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