Exhibition｜Tree Tree Tree Person in Beitou-Liu. sulfur. Keep

Special Art Exhibition: Participation in “Reestablish” – “Senren in Beitou – Liu. sulfur. Keep”
Exhibition period: 2024.10.16 (Wednesday) – 2025.02.09 (Sunday)

Location: Exhibition area on the 3rd floor of Ketagalan Cultural Center

“Tree Tree Tree Person in Beitou-Liu Suliu”

In the Taipei Basin, flowing water connects past and present life. When it comes to Beitou, hot springs and sulfur have become indispensable symbols. People’s departure and stay are not only closely related to the flow of nature and humanity, but also witness the changes of time. This organic flow reflects the changes in the Ketagalan’s residence in Beitou Society. This exhibition reproduces the mountains and hills that the “Senren-Beitou Art Residency Program” team has traveled in the past, as well as the stories, resident creations and artistic action results accumulated through workshops over the years, inviting everyone to review and understand them together This journey of dialogue with the land.

The “Senren-Beitou Art Residency Program” aims to explore the historical memory, contemporary challenges and interaction between the Beitou community of the Ketagalan ethnic group and the environment through artistic intervention. Trying to redefine “Beitou” on multiple levels of geography, history and community. We hope to find possibilities in art, transforming the intertwining of history, land and current life into perceptual experiences, awakening people’s emotions for the land, and stimulating the cultural identity and self-understanding of the community.

“Senren” began in 2015 as the “Senren-Taroko Art Residency Program”. Through curatorial practice, artists are stationed in national parks to communicate with Taroko tribesmen and reveal the different ways of people and nature. relation. Since 2018, members of the Senren team have successively participated in the exhibitions “Herbal City: Beitou, Pingpu Tribe” and “Searching for the Home of Erythrina – Where Are the Pingpu Tribes” co-produced by Fengjia Art Museum and independent curator Xu Wenrui? , began to pay attention to the different opinions of the Ketagalan people of the Pingpu ethnic group on the planning of the “Beitou Sanluiqi Park”, and began to cooperate with art and cultural historians in the Beitou area.

At the beginning of 2020, Senren will organize the working partners who have participated together along the way into the “Senren-Beitou Art Residency Program”, and establish a “Kipatauw, art” fan page and website to organize the people who have cared about Keda along the way. The artistic actions of the Beitou Society of the Glen Ethnic Group continue to connect with local communities through artistic research and public activities to explore the intersection of traditional fields and modern planning.

Note: In Spanish and Dutch archival documents, the aboriginal village later called Beitou Society is generally recorded as Kipatauw