NUIT BLANCHE
TAIPEI 2017
白晝之夜
2017
(2017)
Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night arts festival originated in Paris and takes place the first Saturday night of October. The city of Paris invites the public to explore new aspects and depths of the city by making contemporary art accessible to the mass audience. The original concept of the Nuit Blanche is deeply connected with the urban innovation and public space design.
In 2016, Taipei joined the worldwide celebration of creativity and hosted the very first Nuit Blanche of Taiwan, which was passionately received by the public and attracted over 200,000 people participating on the streets. In 2017, the Nuit Blanche is moving further to the southern end of Taipei city, Gongguan, where independent culture and avant-garde movements have thrived during the last few decades. Responding to the rich cultural complexity of the area, cross-genre, cross-culture and cross-generation artworks and performances are interwoven with the narrow alleys and independent spaces into a glowing web of arts.
As the cultural activities of Gongguan area has centered around the National Taiwan University, a great amount of artworks and activities will light up the Royal Palm Boulevard all night long. Walking through the University Plaza at the front gate of NTU, which has witnessed the youth of many generations striving for freedom and justice, one enters the streets of Wen-Luo-Ting. The rebellious spirits and sophistic aesthetic merge into a unique cultural atmosphere here. Activities crossing the boundaries of performing art, performance art and digital art invite the public to participate and party together on the plazas around Taiwan Power Company. At the other end, various local cultures meet on the dazzling stage truck in the Hakka Cultural Park. The park was originally designed by the Japanese as sports leisure park one hundred years ago, and has become the back yard of all citizens living in southern Taipei. This night, people could bring a stool from home and sit to watch the play or look over the river bank, to regard the water of Xindian river that carries the urban memories of politics, culture, history and industries.
In 2016, Taipei joined the worldwide celebration of creativity and hosted the very first Nuit Blanche of Taiwan, which was passionately received by the public and attracted over 200,000 people participating on the streets. In 2017, the Nuit Blanche is moving further to the southern end of Taipei city, Gongguan, where independent culture and avant-garde movements have thrived during the last few decades. Responding to the rich cultural complexity of the area, cross-genre, cross-culture and cross-generation artworks and performances are interwoven with the narrow alleys and independent spaces into a glowing web of arts.
As the cultural activities of Gongguan area has centered around the National Taiwan University, a great amount of artworks and activities will light up the Royal Palm Boulevard all night long. Walking through the University Plaza at the front gate of NTU, which has witnessed the youth of many generations striving for freedom and justice, one enters the streets of Wen-Luo-Ting. The rebellious spirits and sophistic aesthetic merge into a unique cultural atmosphere here. Activities crossing the boundaries of performing art, performance art and digital art invite the public to participate and party together on the plazas around Taiwan Power Company. At the other end, various local cultures meet on the dazzling stage truck in the Hakka Cultural Park. The park was originally designed by the Japanese as sports leisure park one hundred years ago, and has become the back yard of all citizens living in southern Taipei. This night, people could bring a stool from home and sit to watch the play or look over the river bank, to regard the water of Xindian river that carries the urban memories of politics, culture, history and industries.
Nuit Blanche 白晝之夜，2002年創始於法國巴黎，在10月第一個週六夜晚舉行。活動初始構想為提供一般市民親近當代藝術的場域，根基於「都市創新」及「公共空間設計」兩大核心概念，讓市民在同歡中以嶄新視野深入認識自身生活的城市空間。
2016 年臺北市與國際接軌，於北門舊城區首度舉辦，引發巨大迴響，創紀錄成為台灣史上最多人上街參與的藝術文化活動。2017 年，白晝之夜將移師公館地區，串聯臺灣大學、溫羅汀街區及客家文化主題公園三大場域，建構屬於臺北城南的「時代精神軸線」，以公館城區所承載的多元文化底蘊及自由獨立精神為軸心，深入刻劃城南街巷獨有的文化與城市景觀。同時以當代藝術中的文化混種精神操作城市策展，大量引入跨文化、跨領域、跨世代的多樣展演作品，在蘊含豐富人文肌理的城南街區上交錯呈現，激盪白夜火花。
公館地區過去百年間的人文精神脈絡深受臺灣大學及師範大學等校影響。為此，白晝之夜當晚人群將於臺大總圖書館前的大舞臺集結，沿椰林大道走過臺大系所及博物館建築群，穿越承載民主時代記憶的臺大正門廣場進入溫羅汀街區，在多元獨立的書店、咖啡館及表演空間中感受臺北城南揉合自由叛逆性格與精緻人文底蘊的複雜文化樣態。再走過羅斯福路上集結數位藝術及跨域行為表演的臺電大樓，沿汀洲路來到客家文化主題公園，日治時期規劃的休閒運動公園現今已成為城南的大院子，這一夜，各路文化在此跨夜交匯，人們搬個板凳看戲聽曲，或從跨堤平台遠眺新店溪，凝望跨越政治、文化、歷史、產業的新店溪水與城市記憶。
2016 年臺北市與國際接軌，於北門舊城區首度舉辦，引發巨大迴響，創紀錄成為台灣史上最多人上街參與的藝術文化活動。2017 年，白晝之夜將移師公館地區，串聯臺灣大學、溫羅汀街區及客家文化主題公園三大場域，建構屬於臺北城南的「時代精神軸線」，以公館城區所承載的多元文化底蘊及自由獨立精神為軸心，深入刻劃城南街巷獨有的文化與城市景觀。同時以當代藝術中的文化混種精神操作城市策展，大量引入跨文化、跨領域、跨世代的多樣展演作品，在蘊含豐富人文肌理的城南街區上交錯呈現，激盪白夜火花。
公館地區過去百年間的人文精神脈絡深受臺灣大學及師範大學等校影響。為此，白晝之夜當晚人群將於臺大總圖書館前的大舞臺集結，沿椰林大道走過臺大系所及博物館建築群，穿越承載民主時代記憶的臺大正門廣場進入溫羅汀街區，在多元獨立的書店、咖啡館及表演空間中感受臺北城南揉合自由叛逆性格與精緻人文底蘊的複雜文化樣態。再走過羅斯福路上集結數位藝術及跨域行為表演的臺電大樓，沿汀洲路來到客家文化主題公園，日治時期規劃的休閒運動公園現今已成為城南的大院子，這一夜，各路文化在此跨夜交匯，人們搬個板凳看戲聽曲，或從跨堤平台遠眺新店溪，凝望跨越政治、文化、歷史、產業的新店溪水與城市記憶。
