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Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh, Sharmila Wood

Open Studio

Open Studio

PICA is delighted to welcome Taiwan-based curator Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh as part of the Taipei–Perth International Exchange residency. Join Tammy in conversation with Perth-based curator Sharmila Wood as they explore curatorial practice across geographies, cultures and creative infrastructures. 

Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh’s current research investigates the shared yet uneven legacies of colonisation and extractive economies in Taiwan and Western Australia. Her work spans geopolitics, national memory, Indigenous knowledge systems and ecological crises.  

PICA’s galleries will be open late with light food and drinks provided.  

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About the artist

Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh is a curator, editor and researcher based in Taiwan. She has previously held positions at the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Hsieh’s curatorial practice emerges in response to Taiwan’s contested geopolitical condition, critically engaging with postcolonial thought, border imaginaries, diasporic histories and the ecological entanglements shaped by colonial legacies. Her recent research and curatorial interests trace the ecopolitics and extractive geographies of Asia and the Global South, attending to how landscapes are shaped—and scarred—by imperial legacies and uneven development. Previous curatorial projects include Technostalgia: Peripheral Memory, Ulaanbaatar Biennale, Mongolia (2025); Between Waves and Soils, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2024–25); A Nonexistent Museum Bookand, Macau (2023) and When Islands Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2021–22).

About the facilitator

Sharmila Wood is an independent curator working at the intersection of architecture and design, craft and art. Her practice is shaped by the urgencies of the present and spans exhibitions, publications, symposia, planning and public art strategies. Wood has commissioned residencies, workshops and research initiatives grounded in forging connections between artistic practice, the commons and cultural infrastructures. Working across publics and in community-based contexts, her long-term projects explore art as a catalyst for transformation and collaboration. This includes Actions for the Earth: Art, Care and Ecology, produced by Independent Curators International (New York), has toured the United States since 2023, including presentations at the Block Museum at Northwestern University and the Neumann Museum. 120 BPM opens in February 2026. Co-curated with Amsterdam-based curator Manique Hendricks, the exhibition and public program explore rave and club culture as a dynamic site of artistic and spatial practice shaped by the undercommons. Sharmila is currently working with the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA) curatorium on the next edition of IOTA to be presented in 2027. 

Supporters

PICA’s International Studio Exchange Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors, Treasure Hill Artist Village and North Metropolitan TAFE.

 

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