Bunker: Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen Island

by Cai Guo-Qiang and Bridget Goodbody

For much of the twentieth century, Kinmen was a key beachhead in Cold War campaigns to "Reclaim the Mainland" or "Liberate Taiwan." Although those tensions persist in other arenas, the island has slowly been relieved of its military value, and now it finds itself home to 2,000 vestigial arsenals, bunkers and military facilities. The local government has called on the examples of the Venice Biennale's naval base and of culturally fertile borderlands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881585987
• ISBN13: 9788881585984
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 11.1"