Taipei Fine Arts Museum Presents "Attunement: Contemporary Politics between Mindscape and Soundscape"

Key facts

• "Attunement: Contemporary Politics between Mindscape and Soundscape" is on view at Taipei Fine Arts Museum from July 4 to September 27, 2026.
• The exhibition is guest-curated by Hsu Fang-Tze.
• Yuan Jai's Shifting Hills (2000) was made a year after Taiwan's 921 earthquake.
• Tarek Atoui's Pulses in 11 (2020) produces resonant thuds in an 11-beat cycle.
• Nguyen Trinh Thi's 47 Days, Sound-less (2024) combines footage of Jrai communities with sounds from American and Vietnamese films.
• Kei Imazu and Bagus Pandega's Artificial Green by Nature Green 4.3 (2025/26) connects a royal palm to a mechanical drawing arm that creates and erases green images weekly.
• The work references a 1905 lithograph of an Indonesian rainforest and National Taiwan University's Royal Palm Boulevard, founded in 1928 during Japanese colonial rule.
• Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Zifzafa: A Livestream Audio Essay (2025) addresses noise from planned wind turbines in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
• Susan Schuppli's Listening to Ice (2021) uses hydrophones to record meltwater and ancient air bubbles in the Drang Drung Glacier.
• Lin Chi-Wei's paintings Mountain of Nāgas, Mother Raw Earth, and Magic Mountain (2020–22) are shown alongside works by Yu Cheng-Yao (1898–1993).