2018

12/2018: A performance lecture: ‘Performing Artistic Research – Decolonizing Academia’ at the 1st International Research Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Presented by Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin.)

2019

05/2019: A paper by Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin: ‘Creative (Mis)understandings: Towards a Diversity of Knowledge Production in Academia.’Symposium: Wann wird Kunst zur künstlerischen Forschung, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Linz, Austria.

07/2019: A paper by Wei-Ya Lin: ‘Activist Research among Tao People’s Society (Taiwan): Creating and Developing New Forms and Spaces for Transmitting Indigenous Knowledge’ in the panel ‘Challenges in Activist Research in Engaged Ethnomusicology’with Deborah Wong, Sooi-Beng Tan, Samuel Araujo at the 45th ICTM World Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

08–09/2019: The first and second Tao Classroom workshops about traditional singing practices on Lanyu, reported by TITV.

11/2019: The third Tao Classroom workshop about traditional singing practices on Lanyu (later meetings were taken over by team member Si Pehbowen).

2020

01/2020: A guest lecture, Department of Musicology, Vienna University.

19/06/2020: An online presentationevent at the mdw.

03/2020: An international SAR conference, Bergen: 90 min. performance lecture accepted, due to Covid, it was replaced with an online lecture.

26–28/08/2020: 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology in Lucerne (online), co-organised by the mdw, ICTM, the Swiss Society of Ethnomusicology and Hochschule Luzern. Topic: Performing, Engaging, Knowing. 90 min. panel with Arno Böhler, Susanne Valerie Granzer, Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin on ethics, aesthetics and politics. A presentation of Creative (Mis)understandings.

25/09/2020: A roundtable: ‘Racism and Postcolonialism: Artistic Research in the Post-Colonial Era.’ Using Creative (Mis)Understandings (2018–2021) as an example for decolonizing academia (online). Presented by Wei-Ya Lin at the workshop Rassismus und Postkolonialität in der Musikethnologie/Musikwissenschaft.

22/10/2020–27/11/2020: An exhibition: Songs of Oblivion: Prelude in Vienna by Hui Ye atMz. Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna.

11/21/2020: A new composition con_nec_ted – a triple trio (12 min) by Samu Gryllus, premiered at Wien Modern Festival via a live stream by Ensemble Studio Dan.

30/11/2020–03/12/2020: ICTM Study-Group-in-the-Making for Music and Dance in Indigenous and Postcolonial Context Symposium (online & presence). A panel by Wei-Ya Lin and Chien-Ping Kuo. A lecture Performance by Si Pehbowen. A dance workshop by six Tao representatives. A workshop on the aesthetics of Tao music by Chien-Ping Kuo. National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.

15/12/2020: A project presentation at Fuga-Mikrokosmos, online short film series of Fuga Center for Architecture, Budapest. Presented by Samu Gryllus.

29/12/2020: A guest lecture at Taipei University of the Arts (online). Overview course of the doctoral program (Lin, Kretz).

2021

11/03/2021: A paper, ‘The Living Tao House and its Social Fabric(ation)’ by Leberecht Funk and Wei-Ya Lin, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Institute of Anthropology, Universität Heidelberg.

27/03/2021: ICTM Dialogues 2021. A panel Collaborative Methodologies for Decentering Power Hierarchies in Education, Artistic Research, and Museum Curating, organised by Wei-Ya Lin with José Jorge de Carvalho (University of Brasília), Matthias Lewy (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Deise Lucy Oliveira Montardo (Federal University of Amazon), Tan Sooi Beng (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and Wei-Ya Lin.

28/04/2021: A guest lecture/project presentation by Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin at Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria (online).

19/04/2021: A project presentation at the 12th SAR Conference (online).

25–26/09/2021: Participation in BEGEGNUNGEN.ZUHÖREN by Leberecht Funk and Wei-Ya Lin, performance of the multimedia concert installation ASED (... gegenströmen ...) (2021) by Sandeep Bhagwati and Siaman Vongayan at the inauguration of Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

29/09/2021: A project presentation by Johannes Kretz at Forum Artistic Research at the International Congress of Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Bonn, Germany.

20/11/2021: A project presentation ‘Creative (Mis)Understandings: An Attempt to Sustainable Solutions for Participatory Action Research’ in the panel Sustainable Solutions for Participatory Research in Ethnomusicology, organised by Wei-Ya Lin at Symposium ICTM Austria.

2022

25–27/01/2022: Global Musicology – Global Music History, a virtual conference, Dipartimento delle Arti – Università di Bologna. Presentation by Wei-Ya Lin: ‘Recreating (Music) Histories from the Local Perspectives: Methods, Approaches and Challenges in Creative (Mis)Understandings.’

03/02/2022: Earth Day Art Model (an online concert performance). Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, USA. A performance of scalable songs by Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin.

20/05/2022: Weltmuseum: ‘Long Night of Research’. An extended closing performance/happening at Weltmuseum Wien, open-air event on Heldenplatz with compositions, improvisations, performances, and exhibitions. There were over 700 visitors, and there was media coverage (ORF), the presence of ambassadors.

23/05/2022: House of Music, Budapest: A closing performance/happening with over 200 visitors, a similar programme to that of the 20th May. There was media coverage and the presence of ambassadors.

27/07/2022: ICTM World Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. A roundtable, a project presentation and lecture performances with Arno Böhler, Susanne Granzer, Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin at Colégio Almada Negreiros, Portugal.

16/09/2022: A project presentation by Wei-Ya Lin, ‘DFG-Netzwerk Artistic Music Research’, Berlin, Germany.

17/09/2022: Lanyu, Taiwan: A workshop ‘Music and Dance Pedagogics’ by Wei-Ya Lin.

21/09/2022: ICTM Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology (AE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A project presentation by Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin (online).

20/10/2022: Tirana, Albania, Music University. A project presentation by Johannes Kretz.

25/11/2022: SAR Special Interest Group: Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network, University of Melbourne and the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. A project presentation by Si Pehbowen and Johannes Kretz.

28/11/2022: Central European University, Vienna. A lecture and a project presentation by Johannes Kretz, Wei-Ya Lin and Samu Gryllus.

2023

09/02/2023: ORF Ö1 (Austrian Cultural Radio Station), Zeitton, a one-hour feature broadcast about the project by Susanna Niedermayr, interviews with many team members. Broadcast repeated on Feb. 25, 2024.

31/01/2023–14/02/2023: The return of project leaders to Lanyu, Taiwan. A four-day symposium with members of the Tao community, and Taiwanese scholars and cultural workers.

Closing Presentations

19/04/2022: A preview event for Friends of Weltmuseum Wien.

20/05/2022: ‘Long Night of Research’ at the Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, Austria. An extended closing performance / happening in the building of the Weltmuseum Wien, an open air event on Heldenplatz with compositions, improvisations, performances and an exhibition. There were more than 700 visitors, there was the presence of the media (ORF) and ambassadors.

23/05/2022: House of Music, Budapest, Hungary. A closing performance/happening. There were more than 200 visitors. The programme was the same as on 20^th May. There was the presence of the media and ambassadors.

31/01/2023–14/02/2023: The return of the project leaders to Lanyu, Taiwan, a four-day symposiumwith members of the Tao community, and Taiwanese scholars and cultural workers.