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Resonate with Earth

“Call into the hole and listen to the memories echoing from the center of the earth.”
The land inside the nature park holds many memories, memories of nature, and mankind. The land never forgets.
Resonate with Earth is an attempt to call out to the land using human voices. As we listen to the sound of nature resonating from the hole, humans, like a playful child, may conduct a dialogue with the mother earth through primordial instincts.

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Touched by the wind

Wind carries the seasonal changes onto a little adventure, delivering the concerto of nature. Bringing with it seeds, nutrients and hope to its destinations. The wind also symbolizes the continuation of life. Materials collected from nature are made into musical instruments. As we listen to the sounds they produce, we are listening to the wind’s journey. The wavy bamboo structure resembles rivers and other water bodies touched by the wind. It also symbolizes the past and present of Guandu.

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Give Birth

Be it the moment seeds germinate, the moment petals fall, or the moment of birth and death, sounds follow. The wetland species have been faithfully fulfilling their roles as orchestral members of the cycle of life. Erythrina variegata, from the family Fabaceae, is featured in this artwork. Arranged in a coiling manner, the space created symbolizes the cycle of the legume’s life.

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Chen Yu-Te

Has a wide range of experiences, including operating art villages, creating ecological and visual art, performing stilt walking and theatrical work, teaching art in community schools and filming documentaries. He was the manager of Bamboo Curtain Studio, ecological artist at Jane Goodall Institute, spatial manager at K2 Nature Center, participating artist at New Taipei City International Environmental Arts Festival and curator of multiple exhibitions. In recent years, his focus is on promoting community art.

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Hui-Ying Tsai

A cross-disciplinary artist who bases in Taipei and New York. She obtained her BFA from National Kaohsiung Normal University College of Fine Arts and her MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute. The narrating quality found in her work is a reflection of her interests in drama and literature. The objects and symbols, which are represented in symbolic gestures, embody the historical and cultural connotations. Tsai’s art is inspired by her own experience in life and conveys both personal and collective narratives. Tsai’s recent interactive works reflect her observations of the primitive and contemporary liturgies.

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Iván Morán

Graduated from Escuela Superior de Musica in Mexico with a major in percussion music. Between 2004 and 2012, he received multiple scholarships to travel to Indonesia to study gamelan, the traditional Balinese percussion ensemble music. To further study this traditional form of music, he stayed in Bali for 6 years, and learned to speak Indonesian and Balinese. His musical performance has won the recognitions of musicians from local shadow puppet troupes. He participated in festivities and educational programs with the local troupes.

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Chi-chen Lee

Born in 1987 and is well versed in vocal and a broad range of instruments, including the plucked stringed Taiwanese yueqin, Tuvan doshpuluur, Kazakh dombra, Okinawan sanshin; bowed string instruments such as Tuvan horsehead fiddle and Indian string instruments; wind instruments such as Mongolian tsuur; lamellophone instruments from around the world. He often repairs and makes his own instruments by hand. He develops his own vocal by collecting the sounds from different locations, and he resonates profoundly with the echoes between human voices and natural space. His aspiration is to play musical instruments as he sings.

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ABOUT

"Gifts" play a special role in the lives of mankind. Unlike general functional needs, gifts always contain a nature of connection between the giver and the receiver, even if these objects called "gifts" are no different from general objects. This mutual relationship played a social function in early human life, meaning that it was not limited to individuals, but more often a responsibility and obligation between groups, or a kind of unspoken contractual relationship, also implying a certain moral and ethical value (the receiver has the duty and responsibility to give back). This is deeply expounded in the famous work of Marcel Mauss, the anthropologist: "The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies", which traces the role gifts played in primitive societies. This kind of exchange activity, detached from the functional aspect of bartering in early human society, gave objects more of a human psychological color. We always have countless reasons to give gifts to others (whether it's out of gratitude, admiration, or other motives). These objects always carry the intention (motivation) of the giver. In short, gifts contain the awareness and feelings of both the giver and the receiver, which create a connection between both sides. As a special object, gifts carry a certain spiritual significance due to this relationship they embody. Viewing nature as a gift means perceiving nature as something that is given to us. This perspective reflects how we think about our relationship with nature and how we can establish a connection through this relationship. With the advancement of civilization and technology, the idea of viewing nature as a resource to be controlled and managed is a commonly held ideology, with an attitude that is often utilitarian and instrumental. However, this attitude has gradually become controversial, with the emergence of various environmental issues such as global warming, climate change, and biodiversity, being wrapped up in the concept of Anthropocene. We are gradually realizing that nature is an organic system that operates as a whole (such as the Gaia hypothesis), which reminds us to rethink our relationship with nature. However, is there a more proactive attitude we can adopt towards our relationship with nature? If the theme of the previous exhibition, " Healing, A Methodology," helped us discover the spiritual connections and functions of nature, this year's curation, "Nature, A Gift," represents an opener attitude towards exploring these relationships. By placing artistic creation within the framework of gift-giving, we aim to foster a kind and profound connection with nature, just as what we do with the act of giving gifts.

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