Liujia · Pû-á-liâu
6 artworks・4 spots
PL-1柳丁工作棚
Living with Water: Remaining and Flowing in Pû-á-liâu
WANG Yeu-chin x WANG Hsi x SHUAI Pei-yu x HSIEH Shih-yuan x TUNG Ching-wei
迴聲社造工作隊（王雨靖×王璽×帥佩妤×謝仕淵）×董淨瑋
The Liujia Sanjiaotou Settlement in Tainan is situated in the foothill zone between two reservoirs, flourishing along the banks of the Guandian Stream and low-elevation hills as an agricultural settlement dating back to early land reclamation. Historically, using the stream as a highway gave rise to a living network structured around water conservancy, farming, and faith. With infrastructure development, agricultural shifts, and water control construction, the original aquatic networks and local knowledge gradually faded into memory. Centering on "Rediscovering Local Knowledge and Cultural Recording," this exhibition adopts "local collaboration" and "co-creative action." Throughout the process, villagers retrace local history, stories, and transformations, reconstructing the settlement's cultural map while fostering intergenerational understanding and emotional connection to place.
About the Artist
The Slwlzg_Echo was independently formed by Professor Hsieh Shi-Yuan and students from the Department of History at National Cheng Kung University. With a long-term focus on Tainan’s coastal and settlement issues, the team undertakes field research, community interaction, and action initiatives to articulate local history and lived experiences. Guided by the core mission of "making the local heard," they translate historical knowledge into grounded public practice.
Tung Ching-Wei has worked in the publishing industry for over a decade. Discovering with delight that "curation" and "editing" can forge deeper connections with local places and articulate local value, she has remained on this journey—amplifying voices for the places she loves and forging multifaceted paths for local life.
PL-2柳丁工作棚
The Women’s Song of Pû-á-liâu "ióng-ióng-á ua̍h" (Living with Courage)
HSIEH Ming-yu
謝銘祐
Set in Pû-á-liâu, this project transforms women's life experiences into music and soundscapes through interviews, companionship, and co-creation. Tracing waterways and industrial spaces, it illuminates women's roles and memories across family life, labor, and local shifts, recasting individual narratives into an audible "song of life." Fusing fieldwork, sound composition, and exhibition displays, the work guides listeners on a reflective walk to sense the delicate interplay between place, body, and time.
About the Artist
Hsieh Ming-Yu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and music producer who has long engaged in Taiwanese-language music and land-centered writing. His works synthesize folk, rock, and local cultural observation, demonstrating nuanced care for society and human warmth. Characterized by a rustic and profound style, his music attends to rural life, history, and lived experience. He is a Golden Melody Award winner who actively participates in cultural actions and local creation, connecting land and memory through music as one of Taiwan’s vital contemporary folk creators.
PL-3柳丁工作棚
Flow: A Journey through Pû-á-liâu
Assignment Theatre
差事劇團
Pû-á-liâu is a small settlement within the Zeng-wen River basin where waters and roads weave the paths of daily life. Put on headphones and follow the trails through the hamlet; sound becomes a map guiding the physical body into everyday routines and natural perception, observing the past, present, and future of the settlement amidst the fluid transformations of people and water.
About the Artist
Assignment Theatre established in 1996, has employed the training methods and theoretical framework of People’s Theatre. Starting from reflections on real-life issues, it integrates local history and lived experiences to explore performance aesthetics within contemporary theatre. In addition to its regular annual productions, the company also develops theatrical practices in collaboration with schools, communities, and disadvantaged groups through theatre workshops.
PL-4匏仔寮23號
Where the Glimmer Resides: Chronicles of Daqiu
SHIH Ho-feng x CHEN Ming-jun
施合峰×陳明君
Taking the pre-electrification lifestyle of Taiwan's foothills as a point of departure, this project transforms an abandoned space into a "darkroom of time." Upon entering the pitch-black environment, the audience's sole connection to the past is the "beam of light" from their handheld flashlights. Through this partial and fragmented illumination, visitors are compelled to navigate through peeping and searching, reconstructing the life trajectory of a household from these mountains. This is more than a mere restoration of a vintage scene; it is an act of "memory harvesting," overlaying local artifacts, beliefs, and soundscapes with the reality of the present.
About the Artist
Born in Taiwan, Shih Ho-feng graduated from the Graduate Institute of Studies in Documentary at Tainan National University of the Arts. His family’s business in the traditional industries has such profound influence on him that in his works, Shih often conveys the disappearing cultures as society moves with the times. His visual style is known for its calmness and serenity; through his observation in the real setting, the essence of everyday life is captured on film. Chen Ming-Chun holds an MA in Design Futures from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is currently a doctoral researcher. Her professional expertise spans interior, lighting, and object design. In addition to her design practice, Chen is deeply involved in place-making and cultural initiatives. She has curated and managed organic rural markets and agricultural entrepreneurship programs in Yunlin. Her artistic practice integrates field recordings with site-specific imagery to construct spatial narratives where sound and visuals intertwine. She also utilizes ready-mades as an installation medium, reassembling and recontextualizing everyday objects to evoke new perceptual experiences.
PL-5八叔焙灶寮
Lingering Sweetness
LIU Cheng-hsiang
劉呈祥
Lingering Sweetness takes the longans, longan-drying sheds, and longan shells of Pau-a-liau in Liujia, Tainan, as its point of departure. Through photography, video, field recordings, and AI-generated animation, the work traces sweetness, fire, memory, and the subtle traces of life that linger in the wake of change.
About the Artist
Liu Cheng-Hsiang (Shawn Liu) is a Taiwanese contemporary artist working across photography, moving image, generative art, and spatial installations. His practice examines the intersections of perception, temporality, materiality, and algorithmic processes. Through the interplay of images, light, computational systems, and physical materials, he creates works that engage both the mechanisms of seeing and the experience of space, expanding the possibilities of contemporary image-making across physical and computational environments.
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PL-6匏仔寮池王府
A view in idle time, Made in Daqiu
Walking Grass Agriculture
走路草農／藝團
Làng-phāng is a Taiwanese expression for carving out moments of pause within the seams of daily life. Continuing the "Idle View" series, this work utilizes sun-bleached pattern curtains gathered from local homes, treating them as silent witnesses that both form and gaze upon the landscape. Embellished with motifs of bees and local produce such as longans, lychees, oranges, bamboo shoots, and free-range chickens, the fabric brings overlooked living memories into view. Utilizing the existing structure in front of the Chiwang Temple in Daqiu, Paozailiao, the artist built an enclosure wrapped in these printed curtains, transforming the fabric into seating installations. Amidst the golden western light, visitors are invited to wander and linger, sensing the gentle, slow flow of time within a sacred local space.
About the Artist
Walking Grass Agriculture started in 2014 as a team focuses on visual art, design and curation. The main members are Han-Sheng CHEN and Hsing-You LIU, specialised in new media art and art history. Emphasise in resident experience and observation, full of interest in learning folk arts and its migration and generation. Their research combines the topography, modernology and material culture, moulding the farming experience into their own artistic methods. In recent years, they concern about the ecological environment, urban changes and gender issu.
2026.9.5 – 12.6 | Tainan
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