Episode III：Planet TERRESTRIAL & Planet with ALTERNATIVE GRAVITY

Planet TERRESTRIAL
If you knew that the modernization plan of Planet GLOBALIZATION was fated to be completely fruitless, where would you go? Keeping the world both habitable and prosperous at the same time may call for a Planet TERRESTRIAL. Entering the ground floor exhibition space, we learn to view the earth through a variety of methods. Every element changes due to the function of life forms. By exploring the materials of the earth, we gain reconciliation with the environment. And because the appearance of this planet is still hard to fathom, we propose two ways to “approach the terrestrial”: Critical Zone and Gaia.

Highlight Work of Planet TERRESTRIAL / CHANG Yung-Ta
Taiwanese artist Chang Yung-Ta has long paid attention to the imperceptible material changes ever-present in our surrounding environment. In cooperation with German scientists from Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, he organized a field survey of the Liwu river basin in Taroko Gorge, using microsensor technology to detect, collect and analyze data and explore the time and space relationships between erosion and carbon cycles in the river basin. The choice of Taroko Gorge was due to its extreme variation in earth dynamics, with earthquakes, landslides, erosion and heavy weather. So that Taiwan’s carbon emissions and absorption are both 100 times the global average, which make it a critical zone among all the critical zones that maintain equilibrium on earth. This work spans exhibition spaces on the ground floor and basement level, as a penetrative metaphor that “critical zones” are located between the planet’s upper reaches and lower depths.

Planet with ALTERNATIVE GRAVITY 
Continuing on our journey, we come to the underground Planet with ALTERNATIVE GRAVITY. If we all lived on several different planets at the same time, we would feel their attraction and repulsion in our bones. However, unlike ancient astrology, these forces reveal a peculiar geopolitics. We must adapt to this kind of geopolitics to sense the interplay, both vertical and horizontal, among the planets.

Highlight Work of Planet with ALTERNATIVE GRAVITY / June BALTHAZARD and Pierre PAUZE
The new video installation Mass by French artists June Balthazard and Pierre Pauze oscillates between a lunar landscape and a film studio, that straddles documentary and fiction. In the film two protagonists Michel Mayor (2019 Nobel Prize in Physics) and Chiara Mariotti (Director of Research at CERN) engage in a discussion based on solid scientific theories, exploring the imperceptible, wavelike nature of the material world, it is exposed as one of the great debates of current physics. The two researchers are filmed as if it were a fable, while a fictional world of images commences.