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Manifesting large-scale transformation in a state-organized art system, the Taipei County Art Exhibition holds an extremely important role in the 1990s, as the forefront of outdoor exhibitions hosted by the local government in Taiwan art history. Changes in the Taipei County Art Exhibition emerge from cultural upheaval prompted by the 1989 student movement after the lifting of martial law, encompassing noise, little theater, junk art, underground publications, which were broadly classified under “avant-garde practices” or “installation art.”

The artistic practices mentioned above represent an explosion of social energy long-oppressed under martial law, while also signifying the loosening of the “art” system, extending to cultural centers and other governmental institutions and surrounding sites, including alternative spaces, abandoned or idle spaces, river and sandbanks between city and county junctions, while also promoting and mirroring work under “Taiwanization” bentuhua policies of Taipei County Cultural Center during the same period.

This project will focus on the “The 6th Taipei County Art Exhibition–Land Art,” and extend to a series of environmental, avant-garde, outdoor installations and local exhibitions and events in Taipei County during this time, with related themes of the Taipei County Art Exhibition: “Environment and Art” Series in 1992, “Ghost Festival Zhongyuan Pudu: Religious Arts Festival” from 1992 to 1996, and the “New Formosa Art Festival” in 1995, among others.