Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center
15 artworks・5 spots
TY-1總爺草皮A
Meander Sway: Watershed Feast
HUANG Wen-yuan
黃文淵
Meander Sway: Watershed Feast is a large-scale landscape installation that gathers and reassembles driftwood and drift bamboo into an open, circular space. This venue holds the fluid traces of material movement while echoing the dynamic landscape of the Zeng-wen River’s meandering loops. Entering the installation, visitors experience the sensory memories accumulated within the basin, reconnecting with nature through physical presence and pause. Combined with foraging walks in the low-elevation mountains, the work further explores potential paths toward forging a basin community.
About the Artist
Born in a rural village in Chiayi, Huang Wen-yuan explores local customs across cultures through keen observation and extensive reading, constantly contemplating how to present his work using a diverse range of materials. His artistic stage lies in the countryside, at the grassroots, and within communities. Collaborating with civic groups and local organizations, he uses a sensitive, empathetic mind to translate and interpret the vibrant fabric of everyday culture through art. The field is his most natural canvas.
- 創作協力｜李宥承、李英樵、高譽文、張仲齊、張兆友、黃文志
TY-2總爺草皮B
Time Travel Capsule – River Camouflag
LI Cheng-liang
李承亮
A spiritual vessel designed to travel through time, offering two distinct ways of seeing—from within and from without. Its exterior suggests a machine capable of diving into the deep sea, flying through space, and crossing into other worlds, carrying the unknown and the imagination. Viewers may enter through the front hatch into a dim interior to encounter shifting light, or glimpse inside through round panes of colored glass. Within, a bridge-like space extends the gaze through the body of the vessel, leading toward a realm that is both private and expansive—an inner landscape of imagination.
About the Artist
As an independent artist working within a solo studio setup, Li Chengliang creates large-scale works, furniture, and spatial installations using materials such as steel, wood, and stone. His practice embraces collaboration between craftsmanship and art, merging handcraft, painting, and narrative within conceptual frameworks. His work often explores the inherent properties and malleability of materials, seeking the most fitting forms of expression. Through this process, the shapes of objects are designed to resonate with the surrounding space, creating a dialogue between the work and its environment. Li’s creations reflect a deep engagement with the cultural contexts of various places, focusing on the conditions of daily life and attempting to offer interpretations and reflections on contemporary existence.
TY-3總爺紅樓
General Introduction
2026 MATTAUW Earth Triennial Curatorial Team
Mattauw 大地藝術季策展群
總論展間作為本屆大地藝術季的核心現場，試圖完整梳理策展思維與田野歷程。本展延續上一屆對「溪流主體性」、「流域共同體」的叩問，進一步放眼國際水體自然權利的實踐與發展；展場以曾文溪流域圖為軸，立體呈現十四項子計畫歷時三年的田野路徑、時間標記與影像紀錄。展場內，由策展團隊自淺山取得的竹材構件，結合藝術家王德瑜的軟性空間裝置，重塑臺灣淺山的地景意象、水域邊界。期盼觀眾在或坐或臥的閱讀時間中，感受藝術季的核心關懷與田野精神。
TY-4總爺紅樓
No.106-1
WANG Te-yu
王德瑜
This work originates from creating a space for reading and companionship. As audiences enter, it slowly inflates to enclose them, giving rise to a spatial environment that shifts with the relation of reading. Within blurred perceptions of time and boundaries, it invites focus on the unfolding discovery of the art site.
About the Artist
Wang Te-yu’s works have always sought simple ideas. She has always tried to explore the feeling of spatial presence with simple media, and go on to meditate on the existential form and situation of people in these spaces.
TY-5總爺紅樓
Rights of Nature Study Notes
Kelio Arts X Rights of Nature Reading Group
日青創藝×讀書會成員
Presented as an archival exhibition, this work documents the process of a study group reading Rights of Nature: Case Studies from Six Continents, compiling legal, artistic, and civic action pathways from six continents. It also showcases European initiatives advocating for the rights of water bodies, demonstrating that art is not merely an aesthetic transformation, but a vital force in a global movement speaking for all living things.
About the Artist
延續上屆水計劃的倡議精神，策展團隊成員洪榆橙、林芳多代表曾文溪於2025年至荷蘭參與「歐洲水體匯流」，並將歐洲水體組織多元的自然權利實踐案例帶回台灣；同時，由23位涵蓋人文、景觀與社造等跨領域成員組成的「自然權利讀書會」，歷經兩個月共讀與思辨的成果精華，透過日青創藝的展示設計轉化，於展覽梳理呈現。
- 讀書會成員｜李偉弘、李橋河、柯穎瑄、徐麗敏、張卉君、郭思妤、歐佳霖、鄭景文、HS Lee
- 2026 Mattauw大地藝術季團隊｜王亮心、林竹方、林芳多、姜玫如、洪榆橙、陳晶婕、黃柏
- 喬、黃瀞瑩、楊志彬、廖于瑋、劉力華、蔡漢正、蕭秩瑄、嚴婉玲
TY-6總爺紅樓
The Court of Nature: The Zeng-wen River Case — All Things Bear Witness
Young Foliage Social innovation Co., Ltd. x Noel YANG
稚葉社創×楊欽榮
The Court of Nature: Witnessed by All Beings continues the inquiry into the rights of nature initiated by The Parliament of All Beings. Rather than remaining passive observers, visitors are invited to become gravel, rivers, and other living beings within the watershed. Through bodily movement, sound perception, and spatial interaction, they experience the ever-changing dynamics of the natural environment firsthand. By weaving together hydrological engineering, Indigenous knowledge, and soundscape design, the exhibition transforms scientific data, local languages, and sensory experience into a courtroom without predetermined verdicts, encouraging visitors to reconsider the relationship between humans, rivers, and the more-than-human world.
About the Artist
Noel Yang is the Founder and Creative Director of ViVo Creative Design Studio, specializing in soundscape research, cultural fieldwork, visual communication, and interdisciplinary exhibition design.He has been dedicated to exploring sound as a medium for cultural perception and creative practice, transforming local soundscapes into exhibitions, publications, cultural products, educational programs, and international exchange projects. Yang has curated and participated in numerous exhibitions and cultural events, including the Taiwan Design Expo, Taiwan Creative Expo, exhibitions at Osaka Central Public Hall (Japan), and cultural exchange programs in Hong Kong, actively promoting Taiwanese soundscape culture on the international stage.
TY-7總爺紅樓
vvv
meow-b.tpd（HUANG, Hsin-yao x B.K.H FPV）
喵b三皮乾雜工行（黃信堯×白昆禾）
At the tail end of the Alishan Range lies the barren, low-elevation badlands known as the "Moon World." Recent environmental shifts have clothed the northern slopes in dense vegetation, while the sun-baked southern slopes remain hardened and inhospitable to plant life. This duality mirrors the title VVV (referencing Shan (墡) and E (堊), or chalk and clay, two ancient Chinese characters denoting white soil), evoking contrasts between black and white, color and monochrome. Through visual collage and spatial audio, the artists reflect on the reciprocal contract between species and the land, laying bare the homogenous alienation within the Moon World.
About the Artist
Huang, Hsin-yao: Known for his humorous, satirical voice that exposes the absurdity and melancholy of ordinary life. His creative path evolved from early social issue portraiture toward probing the narrative boundaries of documentary and narrative feature films. In recent years, he has focused on non-narrative visual experiments, using essayistic collages to reveal depersonalized land stories and life textures. B.K.H: FPV drone cinematographer holding an official Civil Aeronautics Administration professional drone license (G1/G3 15kg class, 2020–2026).
TY-8總爺紅樓
Threshold
Angler never knows a bird (Tomoo Nagai XYuriko Shimamura)
釣り人は鳥を知らない（永井朋生×嶋村有里子）
The water level is the trace continuously inscribed upon this land by the wind, tides, time, and the lives of all beings. The Zeng-wen River, flowing through Tainan, has nurtured fertile soil and sustained human life. At the same time, its currents have transformed the landscape, at times engulfing settlements and constantly rewriting the contours of the land. Through field research into this place, we contemplate the boundaries shaped by the mutual influences between humans and nature. "Threshold" is an exploration that traces the landscapes co-created by humans and nature.
About the Artist
Tomoo Nagai and Yuriko Shimamura are a collaborative unit working across sound and painting. Based on site-specific research, they create performances and installations using sound, pigments, and locally collected materials. The unit’s name is inspired by a fisherman gazing out at the sea and a bird circling the sky, symbolizing the intersection of different perceptions and their exploration of space through the relationships between place, memory, and environment.
TY-9總爺紅樓
Scent Memories of the Blind Snake
Frank Bloem
法蘭克・布洛姆
Frank Bloem (b. 1978) was born in the Dutch city of Haarlem. He studied Visual Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. After graduating from the Rietveld Academy in 2007, he worked for seven years as a visual artist, creating art installations with mixed media. In 2014, he discovered scent as a medium for his art and decided to focus his practice on working with it. This led, in 2016, to the establishment of The Snifferoo, a laboratory for scent in the broadest sense. In addition to perfumes, Bloem develops fragrances for Artis Zoo (including elephant fragrances), collaborates with artists, and creates scent projects for museums. He has an ongoing collaboration with the Embassy of the North Sea on various projects. One of these was a collection of 40 scents from and around the North Sea. Other projects with the Embassy of the North Sea include the installation Bulk in Ruigoord and the installation Decomposition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Depot. In 2021, he designed the perfume Zeelucht for the Embassy. Bloem works on his own scent installations and collaborates with artists who want to incorporate scent into their work. He gives scent workshops at the art institution Mediamatic, where he manages the Aroma Lab. In November 2022, his book GEUR, de vergeten zintuig (Scent, the Forgotten Sensation) was published by Ten Have, taking readers on a journey of discovery into the world of fragrance. Written in a light-hearted style, it offers insight into how smell shapes our daily lives and has marked pivotal moments in world history. In 2026, his book Voelen, Ruiken, Proeven (Feel, Smell, Taste) was released. Frank has taught at various art academies and is also involved with Odeuropa and Neuswijzer, both projects of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About the Artist
The Zengwen River, locally known as the "blind snake," flows 138 kilometers from the slopes of Dongshui Mountain to the Taiwan Strait. Along its journey, the river passes through areas inhabited by Indigenous peoples, Han Chinese, and—in the past—the Japanese and the Dutch. As it travels, the "blind snake" winds its way through a landscape of diverse scents and customs; being blind, it relies entirely on its sense of smell. Scent is the sense most inextricably linked to memory: as infants, we learn to recognize the world through smell, and later in life, it is often scent that triggers the recollection of memories long thought forgotten. In this work, we follow the olfactory memory of the snake itself. The river becomes the smelling entity, and the arrangement of scents throughout the exhibition traces what the snake has smelled from source to mouth—and across the passage of time. One can detect the scent of the "red-haired barbarians" (the Dutch), the island's first colonizers when it was still known as Formosa, alongside traces left by later occupations. In the spring of 2026, scent artist Frank Bloem traced the river's course and collected an array of scents along the way. He developed and recreated them in his studio at the Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center—at times letting his imagination run wild, and at other times using the actual materials themselves to compose this installation. The work presents the river's own olfactory memory through a series of bottles mounted on stands, accompanied by handwritten texts created by the artist himself.
TY-10總爺紅樓
Harvesting the Flowing Memories of Zeng-wen River
CHEN Ke-ting
陳科廷
The Zeng-wen River meanders gracefully, nurturing vast ecosystems and human settlements where all beings co-exist. Interwoven throughout the basin are diverse scents, each carrying distinct stories and memories. Through environmental gathering and botanical extraction, these scents are distilled and preserved as tinctures and hydrosols, reshaping residents' memories and imaginations of their surroundings into a collective breath of life.
About the Artist
Holding a Master’s degree in Plant Pathology from National Chung Hsing University, Chen Ke-ting worked on agricultural and horticultural projects in diplomatic partner nations and researched Austronesian traditional ecological knowledge. Currently the director of the Collectors CoSpace, he uses “collecting” to reconnect people, plants, and the land based on ecological observations. By bridging generations to preserve local stories, he develops cross-disciplinary art, food, and local studies courses, rebuilding intimate human-nature interactions to practice sustainable co-existence.
TY-11總爺紅樓
The Vanishing Flying Squirrels
Rngrang Hungul x Flying Squirrel Girls (TSAI Ya-chu x WU Yu-han x SU Yu-hsuan x Yang Yi)
余欣蘭×飛鼠少女隊（蔡蕥竹×吳語涵×蘇育宣×楊毅）
Based in Cayamavana Village along the Zeng-wen River Basin, this project traces the spiritual eyes that "mass-migrated" due to commercial forestry practices. Observing an orderly yet lifeless man-made landscape at an altitude of 900 meters, the creators question how the sacred ecological contract with nature fractured when tourism value dismantled the squirrels' gliding pathways. The vanishing of flying squirrels stems not only from light pollution and habitat colonization, but also from the erosion of internal tribal taboos and traditional rules. When the ancient pact between hunter and land fails, the luminous forest falls silent. Guided by hunter Basuya, the team uses a mixed-media video installation to carve a path of "imaginative return" through the haze of modern civilization. Translating physical nocturnal fieldwork into an immersive performance, the work serves as both an elegy for the missing squirrels and an artistic pilgrimage, rekindling flames in the quiet night to rediscover the gliding trail deep into the ancestral forest.
About the Artist
Rngrang Hungul: A Truku visual artist whose practice is grounded in deep field research. A graduate of National Dong Hwa University's Department of Indigenous Languages and Communication, she acts as both visual recorder and local cultural interpreter. Through her lens, she engages in a profound cultural dialectic within the crevices between contemporary social structures and traditional tribal norms. Her work fuses the weight of documentary depth with the tension of experimental art, and in recent years, she has increasingly translated the physical sensations of her fieldwork into video installations and written texts—stitching together Truku women's life histories while building a sensory visual narrative for contemporary Indigenous women. Flying Squirrel Girls: A group of young creators and researchers from the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art at National Kaohsiung Normal University. Alongside their personal research, they share a passion for ecological reading and Indigenous experiences. Learning that hunters across Taiwan had noticed a dramatic decline in flying squirrel populations, they followed in hunter Basuya Yakumangana's footsteps into the middle and upper reaches of the Zeng-wen River, tracking the squirrels through faint sounds, tree canopies, and claw marks. They are currently conducting a long-term re-encounter project in the forest near Cayamavana Village.
TY-12總爺副廠長宿舍
Borrowing Water from All Beings: Sacrifices of the Zeng-wen River Basin
NAPCU x HUANG Jui-mao x LIN Hong-en x TSAI Han-cheng
社團法人社區大學全國促進會×林宏恩×黃瑞茂×蔡漢正
曾文溪在淺山之間擺盪、迴繞、折折返返。在這些皺褶地帶，主流敘事忽略了許多細節。2026高中營進駐大丘里與龜丹溪兩處皺褶，以身心為尺，測量粒徑、流速、壩體，也繪製植物地圖、魚眼圖，記錄河川健康與人水關係。三年主題「連結」、「感恩」與「行動」，今年以感恩對應犧牲，水庫恩澤亦是流域犧牲體系，唯有心懷感恩，方能生出改變的意志。在現場感受如水滴石痕，持續沖刮、沈澱、前進，形塑每個人的生命之河。
About the Artist
全促會長年關心河川健康和當代水文化。我們發起全國各地的流域學校聯盟。而流域高中營是我們推動水意識向下扎根的重要手段。每年籌備高中營都是在地流域社群的重要集結， 由流域青年世代、NPO夥 伴、專家學者、社區組織和在地引路人，作為高中營的核心要角。
TY-12-1總爺副廠長宿舍
Walking with Water: Watershed Mapping in Daqiu Village
HUANG Jui-mao x LIN Hong-en
黃瑞茂×林宏恩
Through immersive workshops, high school students are invited to observe, record, and survey the river settlement environment, focusing on how living conditions interact with river systems amid environmental change. Grounded in local knowledge and community wisdom, participants map their observations, recording personal experiences and emotional impressions to weave together a collective understanding of watershed issues.
About the Artist
Huang Jui-mao: Dedicated to local environmental transformation for over two decades, Huang focuses on Taiwanese social shifts, offering policy critiques and activist action on urban issues such as community design, historical preservation, creative cities, eco-sustainability, right to the city, public art, and social housing. Former chairman of the Organization for Urban Reform (OURs), he authored Creative Programming in Reuse of Spaces: An International Perspective and Writing Artistic Terrains. His award-winning public art includes For the past decade, he has led Tamkang University's USR project, putting the philosophy of "Bring Design into the Living World" into practice through workshops and spatial construction across Tainan, Chishang, Tamsui, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, and Guangzhou. Lin Hong-en: Drawing inspiration from daily life, Lin works across multiple creative disciplines. His recent focus examines how architecture can intervene in social and environmental changes through knowledge and technology to shape inclusive, adaptive design actions. He specializes in photography, visual communication design, visual art, spatial installations, regional design, and architectural space design.
TY-12-2總爺副廠長宿舍
Nature Disappearing
TSAI Han-cheng
蔡漢正
This work uses photography to document check dams along Guidan Creek, exposing the images directly onto man-made concrete slabs. When dry, the image appears blurred and faint; once wetted with water, the picture comes into sharp clarity. This interplay between clarity and blur subtly questions whether nature loses its innate vitality when artificial concrete intervenes in a river. Nature Disappearing uses the drying, fading image as a metaphor for the "disappearance of nature." As the image reappears with water, it asks: what has the check dam erased, and what remains forever untouched?
About the Artist
Working primarily in photography, Tsai's recent work focuses on human-environment relationships, largely presented through landscape forms. He continuously asks: how can an image serve as a medium of communication? His work emphasizes that photography is not a one-way gaze, but an expression of relational existence between people and things, exploring contemporary sociality through these connections. Beyond his artistic practice, he researches the history and theory of Taiwanese landscape photography.
TY-13總爺糖學埕
Small Things News
歷屆參與學校
“Plant a Bookstore” is a non-profit watershed-based experimental bookstore established in 2023. It serves as an educational base for the “Isonomia and Art Practice” course at Tainan University of the Arts, as well as a space for community dialogue. Continuing the advocacy for the “legal personhood of rivers” initiated by the 2022 Mattauw triennial, the bookstore aims to become a “watershed information center” through thematic book donations.Over four generations, its members have grown to 42 people. The team voluntarily takes turns on Saturday and Sunday afternoons to tend the bookstore and welcome visitors.
About the Artist
- 臺南｜土城國小、大內國小、文正國小、光復生態實驗國小、安業國小、官田國小、
- 海佃國小、麻豆國小、渡拔國小
- 嘉義｜中興國小、茶山國小、達邦國小
- 主編｜洪淑青、龔義昭
- 2023年報衝小組｜古珮蓁、伊將、安瑋、林鴻易、梁世平、許巧欣、陳芳嫻、黃玟臻、龔芹
- 2025年報衝小組｜吳翊禎、巫彥霆、李依蓁、林鴻易、許巧欣、陳芳嫻、曾聖翔、龔芮、龔芹
2026.9.5 – 12.6 | Tainan
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