#Seeds
The Memory Bank: A Harvest of Taitung’s Collective Life
  • Dates|
    2026.7.3(Fri) ~ 2026.8.20(Thu)
  • Time|
    09:00 ~ 18:00(Extended hours until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.)
  • Type|
    #Exhibition #Performance
▌Project Overview

This project is positioned as a “seed” within the 2026 Taitung Expo, grounded in the core concept of “humanistic and cultural preservation.” It aims to safeguard significant cross-generational memories of local life by collecting and organizing 100 life stories of Taitung residents and 40 archival photographs of everyday life. Through this process, the project traces the lived experiences, vernacular imagery, and local events of Taitung from the 1940s and 1950s to the present, extracting shared cultural essences from a wide spectrum of memories. These serve as a foundational framework for both exhibition narrative development and the preservation of collective urban memory.

Centered on the concept of the “Memory Extraction Lab,” the project envisions the city as a cultural field that can be accessed, interpreted, and rearticulated. By integrating historical imagery, personal narratives, multimedia interaction, sensory experiences, and immersive storytelling, the exhibition reconnects fragmented memories across generations and lived experiences. The overall exhibition strategy combines thematic content transformation, spatial design, and digital interactive systems to create a participatory, dialogic, and continuously evolving public cultural platform.

Through the curatorial framework of the “Taitung Memory Bank,” local memories of Taitung are not only preserved but also continually shared, reinterpreted, and disseminated. In doing so, these memories function as cultural seeds—taking root and sprouting across generations and within the urban fabric—ultimately shaping Taitung’s future cultural imagination and sense of identity.

▌Program Description

The Memory Bank: A Harvest of Taitung’s Collective Life” transforms a century of everyday life in Taitung into eight immersive thematic spaces through experiential storytelling and multi-sensory spatial design. Visitors move through the exhibition as if entering a living archive of the city—journeying from mobility and daily life to entertainment, belief, and future imagination—rediscovering the temporal textures of Taitung.

At the entrance, visitors’ silhouettes are seamlessly integrated in real time into historical landscapes of Taitung, symbolizing the individual as part of the city’s living memory. The journey begins in the “Zone of Flowing,” where a time corridor of shifting landscapes uses fast-moving projections to recreate the evolution of transportation and movement. In the “Zone of Living,” recreated corner shops, street scenes, and retro signage evoke the textures of everyday life. The “Zone of Echoing” brings together digitally animated archival photographs—such as those of Pulu and the Datong Theater—with the soundscape of the Bat Cave Folk Music Restaurant, capturing the vibrant spirit of local entertainment. The “Zone of Cultivating ” presents a model of a pineapple factory alongside olfactory experiences, reflecting the relationship between land, labor, and sustenance. The “Zone of Waving” immerses visitors in the atmosphere of the Pacific Ocean through scenic backdrops and soundscapes, telling stories of coexistence between people and the sea. In the “Zone of Praying,” slide projections of Maryknoll missionaries, Lantern Festival processions, and the Five-Year Ceremony reconstruct local belief systems and ritual culture. The “Zone of Renewing” revisits the impact of typhoons and the processes of recovery, revealing the enduring strength of the community. Finally, in the “Zone of the Imagining and Futuring,” the life stories and images of twenty children from Taitung offer a glimpse into the city’s emerging future. Through layered experiences of image, sound, scent, and touch, the exhibition guides visitors to gradually extract memories as they move through the space. In moments of resonance and reinterpretation, visitors are invited to rediscover their connection with the land and to re-experience the rich, lived textures of life in Taitung.

Organized by
  • Taitung County Government
Executed by
  • 20/20 Creative.
Supported by
  • Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency Taitung Branch