Through the Zeelandia Fort VR project of Professor HUANG En-yu of the National Cheng Kung University, the VR of the Dutch Zeelandia Fort Anping settlement guided by a Dutch interpreter character, this exhibition room starts with the history of Tainan 400’s participation in the world trade history through the Dutch East India Company (VOC) fort-building history, unfolding the history of Tainan as a river and port city constructed together with the ocean and inland sea. The Indonesian art collective Taring Padi brings a giant print from River Basin Multispecies Printmaking Workshop, presenting the voices of all beings between the tension of agricultural, industrial, and domestic water use, along with CHAO Ba-hui and WANG Chih-chen’s power mechanical sculpture boat, carrying the sound of sea breeze and waves, echoing the migrating and roaming tale in the East Asian seas during CHANG Chih-chung’s research on the history of Dutch East India Company’s governance in Taiwan. At the same time, this exhibition room will also follow the river downstream along the ground, extending to the walls of the external corridor, presenting the pollution and restoration stories along the estuaries and coastlines by artist CHAO Jui-kuang, who collects marine debris along Tainan’s coast. Through the arrangement and assembly of images and marine debris installations, plus the layering of soil formed from collected marine debris, the environmental events of the maritime river region are presented from a multispecies perspective in the triangular space between the exhibition room corridor.
Voice the Terroir
River life, hand and hope
Before the Storm
The Tide Sounds by Seaport
