Special Programme| Yangmingshan Art Festival—A Forum on Artistic Co-Creation

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In 2023, the Yangmingshan Art Festival was launched for the first time, integrating Chinese Culture University with surrounding communities and the historical sites of former American military dependents’ housing. Through artistic interventions, it offered diverse perspectives on Yangmingshan’s cultural history and ecological environment. In 2024, the festival aims to deepen reflections on human-environment relationships. It will integrate the Tianmu Aqueduct Festival—with over two decades of accumulated heritage—alongside the Tsao-Shan Ecological, Cultural and Historical Union’s water resource education and cultural preservation initiatives for elementary and middle school students, extending the festival’s ethos to universities and broader society to intensify discussions on sustainable human-environment coexistence. It will foster dialogue across educational levels—from elementary to university—within local communities, regional groups, and among external visitors. This layered dialogue, which involves social communication embedded in artistic creation, societal consensus embodied in artworks, diverse perspectives sparked by viewing art, and reflections arising from interacting with installations, will build a trajectory of community participation in shaping Yangmingshan’s landscape, gradually weaving a shared vision of prosperity for the region.

In 2024, the festival features three large-scale landscape installations located at the Sanjiapu Power Plant, along the Huang River, and in front of Taipei Municipal University of Education’s gymnasium. Following initial design conceptualization and iterative coordination among the festival curators, artists, and public management agencies, students joined the co-creation and implementation phases to finalize the landscape installations. The lecture features artists Jie-Teng Lee and teachers Ming-Cheng Chiu and Chien-Ya Weng from Taipei Municipal Lanya Junior High School, with Assistant Professor Hui-Fang Liu from the Department of Urban Development at University of Taipei serving as moderator. The discussion explores the festival as a platform for “social communication,” examining how diverse perspectives intertwine during the curatorial and creative processes to identify shared design vocabularies and integrate environmental themes into artistic creation.