Continuing to foster international dialogue in art and scholarship, NTMoFA is excited to welcome Carlos Quijon, Jr., the newly appointed Chief Curator of the CCP Contemporary Art Museum of the Philippines, for the 2nd NTMoFA International Residency!

Under the title “Archipelagic Frontiers / Archipelagic Futures,” his research is organized around three core activities: collection research, field trips, and a lecture/workshop series. Through this project, he explores the shared cultural affinities, geopolitical connections, and archipelagic futures bridging Taiwan and archipelagic Southeast Asia in contemporary thought.

During the residency, Quijon will host two in-depth lecture-workshops and a final presentation, offering an open platform for dialogue among the public, artists, and researchers:

Lecture/Workshop 1: What is "Archipelagic Futurisms"?

• Time: Saturday, September 19, 2026, 14:00–16:00
• Venue: Resident Studio (2F), NTMoFA

Overview:

Quijon will introduce his creative practice alongside the concept of “Archipelagic Futurisms.” He frames this idea as an invitation to rethink how island worlds, the future, and curatorial work intersect:

• In what ways does the archipelagic complicate notions of futurisms?

• How are futurisms imagined in the archipelagic context?

• How does the curatorial become an exceptional context in performing the possibilities of“archipelagic futurisms”?

For Quijon, the “archipelago” is not simply a geographic layout of islands and seas. It is a shared space forged through historical movement and migration—where fragile yet resilient ties link distant communities marked by colonial encounters. By revisiting these shared histories and archives today, Quijon invites us to explore how these waters become spaces of both geopolitical tension and meaningful connection.

Lecture-Workshop 2: Rereading the NTMoFA Collection: Archipelagic Thinking in Art

• Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 14:00–16:00
• Venue: Resident Studio (2F), NTMoFA

Overview:

How have Taiwanese artists captured the memories, landscapes, and spirit of the island? Carlos will guide audiences into the NTMoFA collection, examining how artists across generations have woven the history, ecology, and geopoetics shared between Taiwan and its surrounding seas.

Focusing on findings from his collection research, Carlos will offer new perspectives on reading "archipelagic futurisms" within these works:

• How do these artworks envision the historical, social, and poetic possibilities of thinking of Taiwan as an archipelago?
• What methods and modes of relationality with islands and archipelagos can we glean from these practices?

Final Presentation: Echoes of the Archipelago: Residency Research Sharing

• Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 14:00–16:00
• Venue: Resident Studio (2F), NTMoFA

Overview:

Bringing together insights from field trips, dialogues emerging from collection research, and critical exchanges sparked during the workshops, Carlos invites audiences to mark the culmination of this residency journey—reimagining Taiwan’s place within the global archipelagic network.

More about Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Carlos Quijon, Jr. is Chief Curator of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Contemporary Art Museum. He was the inaugural C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2024-26) and was a fellow of the research platform "Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia" (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He has written exhibition reviews for publications such as e-flux, Frieze, and Artforum. His essays are part of the books Writing Presently (Manila: Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019), From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making: China and Southeast Asia (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Berlin: Weiss Publications, 2022).

He is an alum of the Ateneo National Writers Workshop in Manila and the inaugural Para:Site Workshops for Emerging Professionals in Hong Kong in 2015 and was a scholar participant of the symposium “How Institutions Think” hosted by LUMA Foundation in Arles in 2016. In 2017, he was a research resident in MMCA Seoul and a fellow of the Transcuratorial Academy both in Berlin and Mumbai. He curated Courses of Action in Hong Kong in 2019 and co-curated the traveling exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art
during a Cold War in Singapore (2021), Manila (2021-22), and Busan (2022). He is the curator of the exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms, editions of which have been presented in New York, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, and Manila. In 2025, he co-curated Ecos e Miragens (Echoes and Mirages) in Sao Paulo, exploring artistic affinities between Latin America and Southeast Asia. He curated the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024.

The NTMoFA warmly welcomes scholars, art practitioners, and audiences intrigued by contemporary art, island lifeworlds, postcolonial histories, and archipelagic futures to take part in these three programs, joining the rich cross-disciplinary exchanges initiated by Carlos Quijon, Jr.’s Archipelagic Frontiers / Archipelagic Futures.

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