Welcome to the Summer Playground.

National Taichung Theater 2024 Summer Fun Time presents a series of playful mapping projections themed #PLAYGROUND through the 2023-24 Open Call for the Audiovisual Arts Young Creators. The four selected artistic projects unleashed unlimited imagination and created a visual wonderland.

Commenced in 2020,‘T.A.P. Project’ transformed NTT's 19 meter-height curved wall of Grand Theater foyer into a magical visual arts canvas . The Project has encouraged a number of domestic and international creators to explore multidisciplinary visual , challenge the unique architectural space and to push technological boundaries. Each work of T.A.P. Project is a fusion of art and technology, a poetic symphony of light and shadow, and has captivated the gaze of 800,000 visitors.

《Homoform》

AI algorithms carve out the inner life within architecture, showcasing geometric shapes, organic growth, and humanoid-nonhumanoid relief spectacles on curved surfaces. Visual sensations spread amidst polyphonic musical sounds, creating an extraordinary sense of beauty where forms flow between order and disorder. Akin to gazing upon the world from a child's perspective. Static sculptures gradually expand through imagination, entering into a wondrous space of a sensory playground.

《Ayama》

Inspired by legendary Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fabric-wrapped sculptures, we blend this idea with the #PLAYGROUND theme, turning the National Taichung Theater into an imagined playground. This sensory experience breaks daily perception boundaries.

The imagery acts as a shifting curtain over the concave walls, transforming the theater's materials and sounds like a magician's prop. Ayama invites the audience to adjust with each breath, reviving with the "T.A.P. Project."

《SUMMER x MICRO PLAYGROUND》

Summer is a bustling season for microscopic organisms, flourishing in soil, water, and air, creating a vibrant playground for life. The work explores life cycles from growth to demise through a microscopic lens. Journeying through forests and cell walls, it unveils a mysterious and colorful microcosm. Let's immerse ourselves in this microscopic revelry, appreciating the beauty of tiny life in nature.

《Dancing in the Rabbit Hole》

Starting from the magical realm of summer, with the fluidity of light and shadow as the protagonist of visual and auditory narrative, this piece utilizes sources of light such as the sun and artificial lights to construct forms, time, temperature, and dynamics within the space, depicting various facets of the visual world. It attempts to guide the audience into the cavern of summer dreams, initiating a fantastical journey and igniting the potential for more sensory experiences.

▎T.A.P. Project

The 19-meter-high curved wall structure creates an immersive visual experience space.

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