“Taiwan Calendar 2025” is a thematic calendar created in collaboration with Taiwan Information Environment Research Center (IORG). IORG regularly publishes biweekly reports grounded in data and scientific research, working to strengthen media literacy in Taiwan and to counter disinformation. These reports analyze different kinds of manipulation narratives within Taiwan’s digital information environment, trace their origins, and link their cycles to social events, thereby revealing the patterns through which manipulation emerges in public discourse.
The work takes inspiration from IORG’s role in Taiwan’s contemporary information landscape and from the parallel with how earlier generations observed seasonal changes in the natural world to create the traditional farmers’ almanac. Just as agrarian societies once relied on the rhythms of nature to guide daily life, the calendar seeks to map the “seasons” of modern information manipulation in Taiwan. Each month presents one manipulation phenomenon identified by IORG as being “in season,” accompanied by images that the artist either creates or selects to reflect on, or at times question, the logic and intentions behind these narratives.
Beyond exploring the relationship between time and politics, the piece also responds to recent changes in Taiwan’s official holidays. In 2025, five new national holidays were added, including Taiwan Retrocession Day. A calendar, as a tool for organizing time, inevitably becomes a subtle vehicle of ideology. The official holidays it records tell us what we are expected to remember, and when we are expected to remember it.
“Taiwan Calendar 2025” is commisioned by Lightbox Photobook Library for the first Taiwan International Photogrpahy Festival (TIPF).
The work takes inspiration from IORG’s role in Taiwan’s contemporary information landscape and from the parallel with how earlier generations observed seasonal changes in the natural world to create the traditional farmers’ almanac. Just as agrarian societies once relied on the rhythms of nature to guide daily life, the calendar seeks to map the “seasons” of modern information manipulation in Taiwan. Each month presents one manipulation phenomenon identified by IORG as being “in season,” accompanied by images that the artist either creates or selects to reflect on, or at times question, the logic and intentions behind these narratives.
Beyond exploring the relationship between time and politics, the piece also responds to recent changes in Taiwan’s official holidays. In 2025, five new national holidays were added, including Taiwan Retrocession Day. A calendar, as a tool for organizing time, inevitably becomes a subtle vehicle of ideology. The official holidays it records tell us what we are expected to remember, and when we are expected to remember it.
“Taiwan Calendar 2025” is commisioned by Lightbox Photobook Library for the first Taiwan International Photogrpahy Festival (TIPF).
