2020 Taoyuan Land Art Festival-creative cityscaping

"Building" Benches at Temple Court

 Let's Dance, Floral Cloth Horse!

 Let's challenge the profession of "tree design artist" for one day! Lead by professional instructors and starting with case sharing, children will elaborate on their unlimited creativity and be their own masters in the carpentry experience in which they are encouraged to think the best way for solving problems. Let children play with block-building and enjoy the moving process of building a city from scratch. The three-folded event incorporates design art, space architecture and carpentry to create unlimited possibility! Participants will build an exhibition cart for pickles to enhance the city's culture, which will be left for sustainable use in the Pingzhen Community after the festival is over. In addition, a "Birds House" for the residents in the park will also be exhibited in the Fortress Park and become one of the art installations in the Taoyuan Land Art Festival.

Challenging Minnan and Hakka Riddles

Delicious Pickles and Sauces

One Pond, One Story

Jazz Swing Party
Vincent Hsu & Soy La Ley Afro-Cuban Jazz BandX Swing Taiwan 

Out of Artistic Expectation
STREET ACT LAB

Several local youth street artists established the Street Act Lab in 2017, where they can discuss their works, participate in workshops, rehearse with theater directors, and engage in trainings to improve their skills. The Lab has thus far held five sessions, focusing on three aspects: discussion, training and sharing. In this year's Land Art Festival, the street rising stars in the past session are invited to showcase and share the results of their creativity with audience in Taoyuan.

Creative Daily Life: Connecting People, Nature and the City

Host CHEN WEN-YIH (Director, National Central University Art Center)

Artist Kenshi MISHIRO (CHIKAKEN  )、Lua RIVERA、Tamás SZVET

This is the opening session of the symposiums in the 2020 Taoyuan Land Art Festival. The symposium, aiming to connect the imagination with the Nature, is hosted by CHEN Wen-Yih, Director of National Central University Art Center, and also invites artist Kenshi MISHIRO of CHIKAKEN, who participates in this year's festival, as well as Mexican artist Lua RIVERA and Hungarian artist Tamás SZVET, both of whom are long-term residents in Taiwan, to talk about the relations between their creations and the cities they are living. They will share their experiences in changing human beings and environment with their works as well as the opportunities thus brought forth.

Creative Material: Learning from Bamboo-Sustainable Building

Host KAN, MING-YUAN (President,Taiwan Bamboo Society)

Artist HSU, PEI-HSIEN 、EUROBA

Taoyuan City features the characteristics of the integration of both the old and new as well as the joint-prosperity of the urban and rural areas, where you can trace the changes from rural villages to urban communities. The second symposium, in line with the curatorial concept of "creative cities," is hosted by KAN MingYuan, Director-general of the Taiwan Bamboo Society, and invites Professor HSU Pei-Hsien of Graduate Institute of Architecture of National Chiao Tung University and Artist Nogdup (aka EUROBA) to explore, from the perspective of the urban future, natural landscapes and circular economy, the ways to build up the interactive relations of such natural materials as bamboo with urban-rural design, land, and architecture and to further demonstrate the heritage and innovation of bamboo art.

Creative Culture: Public Art that Changes Our Landscape

Host TSENG KUANG-TSUNG (Professor, Department of Architecture, CYCU )

Artist CHANG Hwei-Lan 、Ray S. C. CHU 、YEN Ming-Hung

Public art links up the art and the space, and then further connects people by using the space as a vehicle so that it becomes a part of people's life. Hosted by Professor TSENG Kuang Tsung of the Department of Architecture of Chung Yuan Christian University, this symposium invites experts and scholars, such as CHANG Hwei-Lan, Ray S. C. CHU and YEN Ming-hung to discuss the introduction of landscape public art in recent years in creating highlights by means of joint creation and creative forms as well as in creating atmosphere and talking subjects to attract people, who thus deem public art as the extension of creative culture.

Creative Cycle: Better future of Taoyuan Land Art Festival

Host SHIH JUI-JEN (Director, Chiayi Cultural and Creative Industries Park)

Artist YU Wen-Fu、LEE Kuei-Chih、HSU Min-Sheng 、Kaling DIWAY、LAU Tiat-An

Since its first launch in 2013, the Taoyuan Land Art Festival has been followed by high interest both in Taiwan and abroad. In comparison with ordinary outdoor installation art exhibitions, the Festival pays more attention to the inclusiveness between local cultural contexts and artistic creations, thus creating a series of contemporary land art works that integrate natural scenery and land. SHIH Jui-Jen, host of this symposium and a senior curator, will hold dialogues and discussions with artists participating in this year's festival, including YU Wen-Fu, LEE Kuei-Chih, HSU Min-Sheng, Kaling DIWAY and LAU Tiat-An, in which they will share different opinions and conduct in-depth exchanges in the hope to highlight the important value and function of the engagement of arts in the society as well as to leave important cultural memories and prospects for nurturing the land art cycle in the future.