The "REST / Comma: K'o Chung-ming Photography Exhibition" held this time is both a new endeavor and a new challenge.

"REST / Comma: K'o Chung-ming Photography Exhibition" was organized with funding raised by the JRF, with film art director Li Tien-chueh invited to curate the exhibition, featuring three series of photographic works by Hong Kong photographer K'o Chung-ming: "Hong Kong Injuries," "Chronic Hong Kong Injuries," and "Post-Era Revolution." Under the meticulous planning of the curation team, K'o Chung-ming's photographs were exhibited in the space of the JRF Taichung Office to tell the stories of the people of Hong Kong.

Three teams rooted in different professional fields converged here. Although their starting points may differ, they share the common hope that the exhibition will take root and ferment locally, continuing the discussions surrounding Hong Kong in recent years and reflecting on the preciousness of freedom and democracy under authoritarian rule.

We look forward to this "REST / Comma: K'o Chung-ming Photography Exhibition" breaking away from the text-based exhibition framework of the Taichung Office in the past, riding on the wings of the curation team led by Li Tien-chueh and others, carrying the light and shadow recorded by K'o Chung-ming, to jointly compose a new chapter for democracy, freedom, and human rights.

Hsieh Hsuan Exhibition Curation Coordinator

K'o Chung-ming Photographer, General Exhibition Curator

Li Tien-chueh Exhibition Curator, Exhibition Designer

• Time: 09/17 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  Online/in-person participation available; in-person attendance is limited to 30 people, and livestream links will be sent to the waitlist

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The media has become deeply embedded in the lives of all modern people. As the saying goes, wherever there is a scene, there is a reporter. Regardless of accidents, disasters, or weather conditions, reporters always hope to deliver the news at the very forefront and in the most immediate moment.

During the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, a large number of international reporters were also on the front lines of the protests to record and report, providing diverse analyses from all aspects. Taiwan was not absent from this assembly.

Li Hsueh-li has been stationed in places such as Montreal, Beijing, and Hong Kong, possessing profound overseas experience. Centering on the Anti-Extradition Movement, she will share what she witnessed back then and analyze what makes reporting from a "Taiwanese perspective" unique.

Ultimately, in the present year of 2022, what reporting value does Hong Kong hold for Taiwanese audiences, and how should it be written? Perhaps this is the most crucial issue for the media and Taiwan.

Ts'ai Hui-min General Exhibition Curator

Li Hsueh-li Editor-in-Chief of The Reporter

K'o Chung-ming Photographer, General Exhibition Curator

• Time: 09/24 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  Online/in-person participation available; in-person attendance is limited to 30 people, and livestream links will be sent to the waitlist

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The relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong is frequently mentioned in discussions regarding Hong Kong issues in recent years. How can Taiwanese people understand Hong Kong? There are numerous ways and facets to understand it. We can see human rights through laws and systems, but can we also see life through food and music?

The JRF has long focused on Hong Kong issues, and this photography exhibition is a way for us to continually express our stance and support for this issue through an exhibition. In addition to in-depth issue discussions through lectures, we decided to incorporate the promotion and understanding of Hong Kong culture into the activities extending from this exhibition, allowing Taiwanese people to see Hong Kong through the lifestyles described by Hong Kong people. Hong Kong friends in Taiwan are also welcome to share.

This event invites the owner of the well-known "muweichai" restaurant in Taichung to share his past life in Hong Kong and his journey and mindset after starting a business in Taiwan. During the event, Hong Kong dim sum prepared by the owner to share with everyone will also be provided, allowing us not only to listen to the owner's stories with our ears but also to experience the appearance of Hong Kong on our palates.

Hsieh Chia-chen JRF Advocacy Officer

Ah Tung Principal of muweichai

• Time: 10/22 (Sat.) 15:30-17:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 25 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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Hong Kong in 2019 changed the lives of many people. Whether through diaspora and migration, exile and imprisonment, or staying put to guard Hong Kong, everyone has had to face drastic transformations. When everything has changed its appearance and it is difficult for Hong Kong to make its voice heard, how can we continue to recognize one another?

This lecture hopes to enable participants to dialogue with their own survival reality through a richer understanding by reading post-2019 literature, films, pop songs, and art. Participants are also welcome to share their own experiences during the process and jointly seek a dialogue process that combines understanding, resistance, and healing.

Tang Hsiao-ping
Well-known writer, poet, and cultural critic. Author of prose collections, poetry collections, and interview collections, and editor of dozens of anthologies and individual works. In recent years, she has served as a curator in multiple cross-disciplinary arts and literature projects, served as editor-in-chief for several literary publications, and hosted cultural talk shows on radio and television, including "The Open Page" and "Trend and Movement," among others. She has also taught writing and reading in various universities and colleges.
Having experienced all kinds of events in Hong Kong in 2019, Tang Hsiao-ping is currently temporarily residing in Taiwan, planning to read, create, rest, and see friends.

Tang Hsiao-ping Well-known Writer, Poet, Cultural Critic

• Time: 11/19 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  Online/in-person participation available; in-person attendance is limited to 30 people, and livestream links will be sent to the waitlist

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Fully independent singer-songwriter "TikChi" from Hong Kong loves cult culture. With a versatile style and a candid, experimental creative approach, she has attracted significant attention, using music to explore gender, shibari, viruses, plastic surgery, human nature, desire, emotional blackmail, and more.

Regardless of the issue, TikChi never fears worldly judgments and conveys her message with the most direct attitude, fully displaying her unique charm.

This time, the JRF invites TikChi to use her singing voice to guide us in recalling 1990s Hong Kong songs through music, hearing the urban imprints of Hong Kong through melodies and lyrics. Everyone is welcome to join us at the Taichung Office to enjoy the performance!

TikChi TikChi

• Time: 11/26 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 40 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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Hsieh San-tai, Huang Tzu-ming, Chang Chien-chi, and K'o Chung-ming, four photographers who have long focused on domestic and international human rights and social issues, gather together to pull the timeline back to Taiwan's Martial Law era, leading us to see the images of civil movements they recorded through their lenses, advancing all the way through time to the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement. In the process of protests and reforms, how do photographers position their own roles? Let us explore this one by one through this lecture.

Hsieh San-tai, born in a fishing village in Penghu in 1958, has worked as a documentary photographer for over thirty years. He has worked at The Independence Evening Post, The Independence Morning Post, Black and White News Weekly, New Taiwan Weekly, and The Journalist. Using his camera, he has recorded Taiwan's political and labor environment evolution from the 1980s to the present, experiencing the lifting of martial law and industrial transformation, while paying attention to the living conditions of disadvantaged groups with rich humanitarian concern. His works have repeatedly won recognition from the Wu San-lien Award for Reportage Photography and the Golden Bridge Award. His representative works include "Dignity of Labor," "My Aspiration—Hearing the Sound of Dreams," "Walking and Shooting Taiwan," and "Roaring 1989," among others.

Huang Tzu-ming, born in Jente Township, Tainan County in 1960. Currently works as a newspaper photojournalist and university lecturer. He focuses on human rights issues, including Taiwan's comfort women, indigenous peoples, laborers, mainland Chinese fishermen, migrant workers, drug rehabilitation patients, and Down syndrome patients, among others. He has won the Walter Hu News Photography Award, the first prize of the China Spiritual News Photography Award, twice won the Taipei News Photography Award's first prize and honorable mentions totaling seven awards, an honorable mention for the Taipei Photography Festival Newcomer Award, and the gold medal in the spot news category of the 1st China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP). Many of his works are collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

Chang Chien-chi, holds a Master of Science in Education from Indiana University, USA, and is currently a lifetime member of Magnum Photos. He has won the World Press Photo Award in the Netherlands, NPPA Photographer of the Year in the US, the Visa pour l'Image International Festival of Photojournalism in France, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the Pictures of the Year International, and the 28th Tein-Yen Hu Humanistic Award. His photographic works have been widely published in internationally renowned media such as National Geographic, Time, and The Times. His photography books include "The Chain," "I Do," "Double Happiness," "Jet Lag," "Chinatown," and "The Escapees," among others. He has participated in the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, and the New York Photography Triennial. His photographic works are collected by multiple art museums.

Ch'en Yen-ch'i High School History Teacher

Hsieh San-tai Taiwanese Photographer

Huang Tzu-ming Taiwanese Photographer

Chang Chien-chi Taiwanese Photographer

K'o Chung-ming Hong Kong Photographer, General Exhibition Curator

• Time: 12/03 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 30 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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Fear can kill; it can devour hope; it can submerge the truth. "Fear Kills" was written after 2019—an era when totalitarianism and the pandemic struck simultaneously and spread globally. The story takes place on one night in a quarantine hotel, where eerie cries emanate from within, and guests are gripped by panic and anxiety. A Hong Kong exchange student finds no help and dares not face it; a little boy wants to seek the truth but is frightened and stopped by his mother using ghost stories... Fear is hindering everyone from approaching the truth. The sources of everyone's fear are not entirely identical; how can we rid ourselves of the control of fear?

Chan Hiu-yan /
Independent visual creator and screenwriter, primarily participating in scriptwriting for film and television works as a freelancer. In recent years, she has begun engaging in visual creation as a director, collaborating with the Hong Kong short film creation organization Phone Made Good Film to complete the short film "Then I Became Quiet." She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Film Creation in Taiwan, with "Fear Kills" being her first short film directed and written produced in Taiwan.

Chang Hua-che JRF Legal Specialist

Chan Hiu-yan Visual Creator

Tang Hsiao-ping Well-known Writer, Poet, Cultural Critic

• Time: 12/10 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 30 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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Civil Disobedience
2013 / Taiwan / 51 min / Color / HDCAM

Synopsis
A citizen, in a society that is not yet good enough, is forced into disobedience and thus suffers pain. The storm known as the "Red Martial Law" shocked Taiwanese society. It was in November 2008, when the people of Taiwan fancied themselves living in a "democratic country." Because of the visit of a Chinese special envoy, the flag of the Republic of China disappeared, dissent was muted, protesters were hauled away, and the president became Mr. "You".......
As time passed, this image of collective memory gradually blurred and was forgotten in the public's mind. The baseline of Taiwan's democracy breached by the "Red Martial Law" continues to recede alongside increasingly tight social control. However, there are still people unremittingly resisting the regression of democracy and fighting for the right to civil disobedience through litigation, civic education, and social movements! "Civil Disobedience" records the grievances of victimized citizens against officials and the encroachment of state power upon civil rights since the "Red Martial Law" of 2008, while reflecting on the problem of "obedience" education.

Exhibition and Award Records
2014 Taipei Film Festival Nominee
2014 Taiwan International Documentary Festival - Taiwan Award Grand Prize
2014 Taiwan Social Public Welfare Film Festival
2014 Amnesty International Hong Kong Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Screened on the first night of the Hong Kong class boycott, September 22, 2014
2015 Golden Harvest Awards Grand Prize
2015 Cinéma du Réel, Paris

Film Trailer

Ch'en Yu-ching Director of This Film

• Time: 01/11 (Wed.) 19:00-21:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 30 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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From the February 28 Incident and the White Terror during Taiwan's authoritarian rule to Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement and Anti-Extradition Movement, in the process of the people resisting the state, they have continuously suffered political violence of varying degrees of severity. What are the forms of political violence trauma? Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) under the mainstream psychiatric framework sufficient to understand these trauma forms? Are Taiwan's current social welfare, mental health, medical, and legal aid systems—from policy planners to frontline professionals—prepared to undertake the healing/meeting work related to local or external political violence trauma?

Based on twenty years of trauma research and clinical practice, Teacher Peng believes that the formation of an interprofessional collaborative healing/meeting network is an important foundational infrastructure enabling traumatized subjects to voice themselves, be heard, and be seen. The synchronized understanding of trauma experience by network collaborators is the starting point of healing. The repair of political trauma in social movement protesters is intertwined with socio-political transformation; hence, healing work is always embedded in the social engineering of rebuilding personal and collective relationships.

Peng Jen-yu
Convenor of the "Political Violence Trauma and Healing" Working Group of the Taiwan Clinical Psychology Association, and supervisor of the Crime Victim Protection Association, Pingtung Branch. A psychoanalytic practitioner who attempts to explore the traumatic psychic landscape together with traumatized subjects. Former member of the Transitional Justice Commission. She continues to practice opening compound eyes to see the multiple forms of human beings and polishing ears to listen to the voices of the dissenting in the clinical field of cross-generational trauma involving incest, wartime sexual violence, and political violence, believing that true healing is becoming a comrade-in-arms for the wounded as they cross the valley of the shadow of death.

Peng Jen-yu Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

• Time: 01/14 (Sat.) 14:00-16:00
• Location: Judicial Reform Foundation Taichung Office
  This session is limited to in-person attendance only, capped at 30 people, with excess applicants placed on the waitlist

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