The speakers have been in place for around 60 years, and this year on August 26th, a group of artists are to power up one of the towers for a different kind of transmission.
Called “Sonic Territories,” the site-specific performance will feature work by four Taiwanese artists and the French-born, Berlin-based artist Augustin Maurs, who came up with the concept. Maurs admits that he did not know much about Taiwan before he was invited to visit the islands by the artist and curator Ada Kai-Ting Yang, who is participating in the project.
The group of five artists will re-activate and re-invent the Beishan broadcast wall in the course of an artist-run research residency, on 26 August will coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, when the People's Republic of China shelled Kinmen Island to 'liberate' the territory and test America's resolve to support Taiwan.
During this investigation, the loudspeaker construction will become a twofold instrument where outer and inner voices cross, and where artist voices merge with the voices of local participants. The artistic results of the initiative will be shown on-site at the Beishan loudspeaker wall in Kinmen during a “concert-exhibition” event.
Called “Sonic Territories,” the site-specific performance will feature work by four Taiwanese artists and the French-born, Berlin-based artist Augustin Maurs, who came up with the concept. Maurs admits that he did not know much about Taiwan before he was invited to visit the islands by the artist and curator Ada Kai-Ting Yang, who is participating in the project.
The group of five artists will re-activate and re-invent the Beishan broadcast wall in the course of an artist-run research residency, on 26 August will coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, when the People's Republic of China shelled Kinmen Island to 'liberate' the territory and test America's resolve to support Taiwan.
During this investigation, the loudspeaker construction will become a twofold instrument where outer and inner voices cross, and where artist voices merge with the voices of local participants. The artistic results of the initiative will be shown on-site at the Beishan loudspeaker wall in Kinmen during a “concert-exhibition” event.
