The Aboriginal Cultural Foundation launched the 2026 Pulima Art Festival pilot project results exhibition, and Taoyuan Fuxing District and Qingpu were simultaneously unveiled

[Reporter Li Shaoling/Taipei Report] A pond, a mountain trail, or a Tetra Pak that is readily available are all the starting points for a careful study of a city. The Aboriginal Cultural Foundation has launched two "2026 Pulima Art Festival" pilot project achievement exhibitions, which will be simultaneously unveiled in Taoyuan Fuxing District and Qingpu from September 24 to November 1. The exhibition starts from the delicate perceptions of children and the daily lives of local residents, and extends to the resident practice of three young aboriginal artists, leading the audience to travel between the mountains, forests and cities, and re-explore the diverse aspects of Taoyuan from an artistic perspective.

"Who said tana can't be grown here?/Tana Makes a Place" was exhibited at the KIRI International Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Park, showing the diverse attitudes of Taoyuan and Qingpu. (Original text will be provided)

"Confession with the Land - Collection is the Beginning of Creation" exhibited at the Forestry Story Hall in Fuxing District shows the fruitful results of Pulima Kids' fourth children's aesthetic creation project. Curator You Gan. Youlao uses "collection" as a stepping stone to inspire children's creativity. The collection is not only concrete objects such as bamboo knots and fallen leaves, but also covers the smells, character stories captured by the 40 children when they walked into the forest and opened their five senses, as well as those temporarily indescribable soul palpitations.

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The "Children's Aesthetic Creation Project" guides children into the mountains and forests to collect every moment's feelings and experiences. (Original text will be provided)

Over the past three years, the project has gradually moved from "seeing places" and "perceiving places" to "how to respond to places." Creation sprouts quietly at the moment of each collection. It is deeply rooted in the bamboo and rattan, light, shadow and texture that children feel through physical work, and is also imprinted in the mud paths stepped on by their feet and the touch left on their hands. The curator pointed out, "Children just re-weave the collected fragments, allowing invisible memories and feelings to be seen again!" What the exhibition presents is not just a finished product, but also a profound dialogue and connection between people and the land.

Resident artists explore Qingpu with their different life experiences, and use their works to transform the Taoyuan style in their eyes. (Original text will be provided)

On the other end of the spectrum, "Who said tana can't be grown here?/Tana Makes a Place" was launched at the KIRI International Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Park. Three young artists, Hu Jiayu from the Bunun ethnic group, Ruan Yuanmin from the Seediq ethnic group, and Luo Yuan from the Saisiyat ethnic group, were invited to settle in Qingpu. During their two-month stay in the village, they gazed at Qingpu with their own life trajectories and creative perspectives, and also invited the public to join hands in creation through "participatory workshops".

The curatorial team also launched the "Urban Exploration Action｜Qingpu Sensory Database" to extensively collect the sounds, smells, sights and body memories captured by the public when they passed by this place. Curator Piling Citey revealed that "tana" in the exhibition title is the Amis language for onion, and was inspired by a daily question he asked when he was stationed in the village: "Can things that were not originally expected grow in a place that has been planned and named for a long time?" From the legend of the Yellow Dragon in Laojie Creek, to the handmade paper made by mixing incense ash from the temple, to the dynamic images that use the body to perceive the region, they are all subverting and reconstructing the way people view this emerging city.

In the exhibition "Who said tana can't be grown here?/Tana Makes a Place", creative elements from the general public are incorporated to continue to generate various possible appearances for the place. (Original text will be provided)

From the roots of children's beauty to the entry of young artists, two exhibitions outline a new path for Pulima's cross-generational artistic cultivation. Aboriginal art is no longer just looking back at tradition, but can also stride into mountains, forests, cities, and contemporary daily life; culture is not only passively preserved, but can bloom with new vitality at the moment when people and land reunite.

"Confessions to the Land - Collection is the Beginning of Creation" will be exhibited at the Forestry Story Museum in Fuxing District, Taoyuan City from now on; "Who said tana cannot be grown here?/Tana Makes a Place" will be simultaneously unveiled at the KIRI International Aboriginal Cultural and Creative Park, and the opening ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. on September 26. The public is invited to follow the footsteps of children and artists, from the secluded mountains and forests of Fuxing to the bustling streets of Qingpu, and carefully read the rich expressions of Taoyuan. In the intertwined chapters of the works, they can find their original intention of resonating with the land.