Episode I：PRELUDE & Planet GLOBALIZATION

PRELUDE 

You and I don’t share the same vision of the world. —Curators, Bruno LATOUR and Martin GUINARD

Welcome to the Lobby of Planetarium. After gathering knowledge from a range of disciplines and public projects, Taipei Fine Arts Museum has created five planets, each with its own distinctive qualities. Delving deep into the dialogues and conflicts between humanity and the non-human world, we hope to stimulate people's speculation and contemplation about the environment and to examine the current tense geopolitical situation and deteriorating ecological crisis. Ultimately, which planet would you choose to live on?

| PRELUDE of the Planetarium |Fernando Palma Rodríguez 

The Mexican artist Fernando Palma Rodríguez has launched an unanticipated visual attack. As a mechanical engineer and animist, Fernando has for many years combined natural materials, animal images, mechanical parts and computer technology to form motorized sculptures, choreographing dances filled with vitality.
His works present the indigenous culture and agriculturaltechniques of the Mexican countryside, employing Aztec mythology and linguistic symbols to convey the environmental crises and problems with sustainable development that tribal peoples face.

| Planet GLOBALIZATION |

It was a dream: let’s modernize the planet! We will all live together in one global world.

Crossing the lobby, please go to the 2nd floor. Welcome to Planet GLOBALIZATION. This is a planet of idealized modernity, ushering humankind into a land of development, comfort, cultural exchange and wealth. Through planetary trade, it attempts to bind different territories together. Even though globalization has produced inequality and a gap between rich and poor, people are still enamored with this planet that can no longer bear its limits yet persists in pursuing modernization. But suddenly it does not look so ideal. What could come after globalization? 

| Highlight Work of Planet GLOBALIZATION |MILLIØNS (Zeina KOREITEM & John MAY) and Kiel MOE with Peter OSBORNE

The Ghost Acres of Architecture, a newly commissioned work by US-based design practice MILLIØNS (Zeina Koreitem & John May), considers one of the great icons of 20th-century modernist architecture – the Seagram Building in Manhattan – exploring how humans and nature interact with the environment on the earth's crust through the medium of architecture. Using raw geological materials, data analysis images, and architectural elements, it explicates the planetary reach of architecture and makes the architecture design practice far less traditional and abstract. It becomes a new style which is closer to the economic and social conditions of this century.