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Finding the Way Through the Forest: The "Echo Tree Hole" Installation Exhibition
Chinese original:
林中尋路：回聲樹洞裝置展
Eight tree-shaped installations stand at the entrance of the National Theater, each tied to one programme of the 2026 Artquake in Autumn festival. Step up to a trunk to hear a guest guide talk about that programme, then take a leaf card and rub out the sentence hidden in the wood. You can keep the card or write a reply and drop it into the tree hollow. Entry is free, and it can be visited before any performance begins.
1 / 4 Image: National Theater and Concert Hall
- Dates
- Sep 20 – Nov 29, 2026
- Venue
- National Theater and Concert Hall (國家兩廳院) · Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
- Address
- 臺北市中正區中山南路21-1號Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall MRT Station; the venue recommends Exit 5Open in Google Maps
- Hours
- 12:00–20:00
- Admission
- FreeOriginal: 免費
Visit planning
The calendar entry covers the whole run of the exhibition. Please check opening hours and closing days before your visit.
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Credits
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- National Theater and Concert Hall
Knowledge cards
Installation art裝置藝術Large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often made for a specific place or a limited time, that the viewer often walks into.Read moreClose
01About
An installation is not a set of separate artworks but one whole experience, centred on how the viewer perceives it. The artist Ilya Kabakov said that the main actor in the total installation, the centre toward which everything is addressed, is the viewer. Forerunners include Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau and the “environments” Allan Kaprow made from about 1957; from the 1960s installation became a major strand of modern art. In Taipei, Chen Chao-hua uses altered compressors and condensing techniques so that frost forms and melts again and again in the gallery, and in When Tomorrow is Forgotten at MOCA Taipei, one artist, drawing on their own care work, brings the spaces, objects, and traces of labour from care settings into the exhibition. A label reading “dimensions variable” means the size of the work changes with the space it is shown in.
02In the gallery
Pause at the entrance to take in the whole space before you step in; once inside, notice what changes as you move.
Wall label terms in Chinese
- 裝置
- Installation
- 複合媒材
- Mixed media
- 特定場域
- Site-specific
- 尺寸依場地而定
- Dimensions variable
03Notes
The parts of an installation add up to one experience, and what matters is how you perceive it.
This time, at Finding the Way Through the Forest: The "Echo Tree Hole" Installation Exhibition —
Having walked through it, where do you think the work begins, and where does it end?