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The work is consisted of two parts. The first part includes three previous sculptural sound works displayed on the installation and one sound project centered on “participation,” along with other related documentation (such as video and sound samples collected from workshops); the other part includes two new site-specific works, Landscape of Taishin and Sounds of Taishin. The materials for the two new works are collected from the daily environment of the tower of Taishin Financial Holding. They are, respectively, the view from the rooftop of the corporate building and all kinds of sounds happening in the office.
As unseen yet existing visual elements (space) and heard but unacknowledged sounds (time) are extracted, integrated, simulated and relocated, it is hoped that audience may be stimulated to reconsider the taken-for-granted, daily environment. In the meantime, through the pipe system of the installation, one could also interact with the sounds collected at different places at different times. Namely, the pipe installation is itself a site-specific work for the exhibition, initiating changes in the visual, auditory and physical perception of the exhibition site; meanwhile, the installation also shoulders the contents of past projects as well as memories of the other places and times, delivering to the audience new perceptual experience of the Taishin space.
