Performance doesn't only happen on a stage.

Since 2020, the Taitung Fringe Festival has turned streets, villages, mountains, and coastlines into living stages, where wind, light, sound, and passing strangers all become part of the show. Audiences don't simply watch; they walk into the work and without quite realizing it, become co-creators of the moment itself.

But these performances exist only once. When they end, they dissolve, leaving behind fragments of footage and text that can gesture at what happened but can never truly bring back the air, the heat, or the feeling of being there.

This retrospective exhibition takes sui-pian ("fringe fragments") as its guiding concept: shards of memory, images that remain unfinished. As you move through the space and hold these fragments up to the light, scattered pieces find each other again, and something new takes shape in the meeting.

The past cannot be fully recreated here, but every visitor reinterprets the exhibition anew.

In Taitung, performances often unfold in environments that resist full control. Wind, light, sound, and strangers passing by seep into the work, shifting its rhythm in ways no one can predict. When the stage is no longer a closed room but an ever-changing field, every occurrence becomes a moment that cannot be repeated.

This is where the Taitung Fringe Festival was born. It is an artistic movement rooted in site-specific and experimental performance, where mountains and ocean become the stage, and body and space create together. Since 2020, audiences have been invited outdoors to witness performances across streets, villages, and open landscapes. Without quite realizing it, they become part of what they are watching, completing the live experience alongside the performers.

Yet these works tend to exist only once, in a single moment of a single year, before dissolving. Footage and text leave traces, but they cannot recover the air, the heat, or the physical sensation of being there. The elements that make a live moment what it is have never been fully reproducible.

This exhibition does not attempt to reconstruct. Instead, it begins with sui-pian, fringe fragments: shards of memory, images that were never quite finished. As you move through the space and hold these fragments up, scattered pieces find each other again, and new experiences take shape in the encounter.

Here, you are not only a viewer. You are one of the conditions that makes everything possible.