New Taipei City Museum of Art's 360-degree light show offers immersive experience with weekend performances

The New Taipei City Museum of Art is currently hosting "Haishan Night Walk," an immersive architectural light and sound spectacle that runs until July 12. This unique exhibition transforms the museum's outdoor area into a nearly 10-minute nighttime experience, blending light art, soundscapes, dance, and a landscape theater.

Unlike traditional light shows focused on a single facade, "Haishan Night Walk" utilizes the museum's architecture and its surrounding environment as a stage. The 360-degree sound and light design invites visitors to explore the grounds, engaging with the interplay of light and shadow, and the interwoven narratives of the city's history.

The exhibition, timed with the museum's first anniversary and the upcoming opening of the Sanying Line MRT, connects the cultural memories and industrial heritage of the Sanxia, Yingge, and Shulin districts. It reinterprets the history of early settlers, the craftsmanship of the Zushih Temple, the textures of the river valley landscape, and modern transportation imagery through light and sound.

Created by the Chen Yijie Art Studio in collaboration with the Crazy Performance Lab and featuring international contemporary dancer Liu Yi-ling, the show projects dancers' movements onto the building. These movements translate the historical and cultural memories of Haishan into physical language, embodying the region's "four golds and one pottery" industrial culture, referencing blue dye, coal, tea, and ceramics, through the interplay of dance and light.

Recommended viewing spots for the 360-degree experience include the southern high ground and northern lawn of the outdoor park, areas around the "Heart of Sanying" public art, and the corridor leading from the "MRT Sanying Line - Yingge Station" towards the museum. On weekends, additional performing arts programs are featured, including a large-scale puppet show and a contemporary circus performance exploring the relationship between body, space, and technology.