From the main visual of the river island in the lobby on the first floor, Rahic Talif’s paper mulberry bark installation, along with Hydrological Map of Tainan by illustrator LIN Chien-chih and Tainan 400 water city animation by Jimmy TUNG within the exhibition space, the theme of the “We Are Born By The River: Collaborative Notes of Millennium River Basin Culture” unfolds. HSU Yunghsu’s six large hand-built ceramic works, opening the initial space of water culture. With works that evoke a sense of mysticism and expansive space, starting from the ancient interaction between people and the myriad things of the land, guiding changes in waterways on the ground, the audience enters the exhibition ambiance. The animation and the map hint that beneath the contemporary city, Tainan is like an island of rivers, hiding the crisscrossing waterways of rivers and seas gradually forgotten after the City was built. In the process of drastic contemporary climate change, the rivers have triggered anomalies in the water bodies, thereby reminding all beings and people of the water veins, inland seas, and ponds that connected the City at its origin, from the Wu Tiao Gang (the Old Five Channels) running through the old district north to south, including Zhu River, Fu An Keng Creek, Deqing Creek, Chaitougang River, and Yanshui River, to the large alluvial Tainan, island of streaming, formed by the east-west flowing Bazhang River, Jishui River, Jiangjun River, Zengwen River, and Erren River. The symbolic paper mulberry bark and six earthen mounds interact with water, unveiling astonishing secrets. The audio-visual animation by Jimmy TUNG will reveal the mysterious water body spacetime of Tainan’s origins.
Hydrological Map of Tainan
Millennium River Basin Culture—River Deities and Allied Realms
ka’oripan Life Space
