2014.09.04-2014.09.14

When art is out of the context of museums and galleries, more possibilities will be added to its relations with the space and general public! This year, with the unique landscape of the Taoyuan Naval Base as the background, Taoyuan once again presents different urban features with land arts and invites the general public to explore the space and feel its charms with sunshine, adventures, explorations and experiences. To this end, we introduce internationally-renowned installation art in the vast space of the naval base to re-establish the depth of local cultures, re-create rural memories, strengthen Taoyuan's local characteristics, and disseminate Taoyuan's vitality and passion. The concepts of this year's festival can be divided into four aspects: "integrating with local unique time and space with art as the medium," "establishing the ambience for the public participation with multi-faceted art and cultural events," "demonstrating Taoyuan's aviation culture by opening up the Taoyuan Naval Base," and "improving art and cultural life to actively connect with the world." Further details are as follows: (1) Integrating with local unique time and space with art as the medium: The festival aims to facilitate the interactions and dialogues among natural environment, historical context and art to arouse the awareness of ecological and geographical environments and meanwhile to activate existing resources by artistic engagement in the venues and create the possibility of local practice in cultural events in order to transform the energy of the dialogues between art and environment into the resources for sustainable development. (2) Establishing the ambience for the public participation with multi-faceted art and cultural events: The festival showcases installation artworks created by internationally-renowned artists, collective creative activities, art workshops, and a variety of performances, which invite the general public to visit the art and cultural venues, build up creative experiences, feel the aesthetic inspiration, form common impression of beauty, and further review the relations between mankind and land. (3) Demonstrating Taoyuan's aviation culture by opening up the Taoyuan Naval Base: This festival transforms the Taoyuan Naval Base for military use to a venue for performing arts, which is open to the general public, and combines outdoor art installations and static displays with unique landscapes, such as the 3.6-kilometer-long airstrip and bunkers, to showcase the specific manmade landscape of aviation and to highlight the uniqueness and charms of local cultures by means of the public participation in the Taoyuan Land Art Festival. (4) Improving art and cultural life to actively connect with the world: At the time when Taoyuan is to be upgraded to a municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the central Government and become a metropolitan featuring not only economic but also art and cultural development, the Taoyuan Land Art Festival aims to introduce international artistic energy into local unique military and historical landscapes, give full play to the original creativity and public participation, and integrate local environmental, historical, and cultural resources to transform the space with arts and improve the pattern of cultural construction.