In 2016, the cultural affairs bureaus or culture and tourism bureaus from Yunlin County, Chiayi County, and Tainan City formed the “Yun-Chia-Chia-Ying Theatre Link” and jointly launched the “Summer Theatre Festival” for the first time. Since then, the festival has become a major art event co-organised by four local governments – a scale of collaboration never-before-seen in Taiwan. In 2021, the four local governments decided to take a further step and formed the “Yun-Chia-Chia-Ying Visual Art Link” to facilitate artistic dialogues via the exchange exhibitions taking place at different venues in these four cities/counties. Such an artistic alliance allows people to cross administrative [borders] and re-examine the locality of the Chiayi-Tainan Plain area via different perspectives and thinkings. Surrounded by the Beigang River, the Jishui River, the Zengwen River, and the Yanshui River, the vast “village” with Chianan Plain as its core has developed a certain “collective fantasy” through the movement of body, the changing of scenery, and the flow of culture. Such fantasy refers directly to a form of imagination which is absent in urban artistic or cultural venues, marked by the trace of different paths during the action of repeated traversing and lingering. The creative imagination also encompasses various cultural interpretations and helps build a local cultural hub.

 

In such fashion, and with the support of the cultural affairs bureaus, and the joint local governments, Wu Tech Imaginary Industries department has implanted our provisional headquarters directly in Tainan Xingying Cultural Centre to be part of the phenomenon, and to pilot our numerous participating industries, such as ceramic firearms, pop up organisations and armed groups, and the manufacturing business of gods and faiths.  

 

In the end, is mobility a force to boost or hinder, to create or destroy when people enter and settle in a local space? This question will be answered by the events which mobility brings about, i.e. the events of attraction, as well as the encounters, gatherings, departures, partings, etc., particularly, the stories before, during, or after people’s settlement into the local space as a result of mobility.