The Dutch colonial empire once covered vast territories across the globe, including parts of southern Taiwan. A recent exhibition by Sasha Dees entitled "NEXUS" at 台北當代藝術館 MoCA Taipei showcased artworks from another part of the empire’s former domain — the #Caribbean. Before Taiwan became a modern democracy, it underwent centuries of often-brutal colonization. Both distant European powers and those close by — the Qing Empire, Japan and Chinese Nationalists — sought to settle, exploit and militar