No Man’s Land (NML) Residency and Nusantara Archive Project (May, 2017 ~ Apr, 2018) is based on three approaches: Artist Residency, Cultural Translation, and Collective-Production. NML will invite artists from Malay/ Indonesia Archipelago to Taiwan, for discussion to build up the Nusantara archive as the alternative framework for the art exchange practices between Taiwan and Southeast Asia. This open-to-all database is provided for the bilateral/ multilateral understandings among the art and culture exchange practices among these places, initiating the Nusantara genealogy as the reference point (instead of state-nation) to avoid the narrowness of nationalist ideology. For the first stage, we will invite artists to Taiwan and write their proposal for the future project to present at Meeting NML.

For the second stage, we will send researchers to the respective space in this archipelago genealogy (Kuala Lumpur, Kelantan & Jogja, etc), to discuss with local knowledge circle and translate related documents to be published on NML. This project is sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation (TW) in collaboration with the groups or individuals as below: ET@T, Rumah Attap Library, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Open-Contempary Art Center, Hoo Fan Chun, Okui Lala, syafiatudina; special thanks to Huang Wen-hao, Au Sow Yee, Hsu Fang-tze, Zikri Rahman & Buku Jalanan, Show Ying Xin, Wu Chi-yu.