Liu Yu's Field is a participatory art project. Visitors are invited to take part. Guides will provide visitors with a one-on-one therapeutic experience. The inspiration for this work is the artist’s move to the east side of the Coastal Mountains this year, presenting various stages in her transformation as she experienced life there. While re-centering her life, Liu began to grow crops on a small piece of land that had long lain fallow. Farming was a way to quickly familiarize herself with the environment, the climate, and the ecology. For the artist, interaction with the land is like an exchange of bodily sensations – the cultivator labors, the soil changes its constitution, and the crops grow robust. Liu Yu brings the scope of the work back to an exploration of herself at a spiritual level, attempting to convert the bodily sensations and messages exchanged through “physical practice” into a formal vocabulary, while also responding to a vital force that people living today may be trying to find.

This work takes place by reservation. As a participant, please temporarily set aside your thoughts and consciousness, and experience the journey of bodily perception imagined by the artist.

1. Instructions for Participants

Welcome to Field. If you are willing to take part in this art event, please read the following rules before you register.

• This a journey that lasts 50 minutes.
• Please arrive 15 minutes before the session begins. Museum personnel will guide you into the area where the work takes place.
• The art event includes an interactive experience. During the event, guides and participants will have physical contact.
• Please wear a shirt and long pants that are comfortable and light, so that you can easily move around during the activity.
• To avoid lessening the quality of the experience, please turn off or mute your phone.
• The entire journey takes place to the accompaniment of music and cannot be paused. If you make a reservation but do not appear at the venue before the starting time, you will be regarded as having canceled your registration. Please arrive on time.
• At any one time, 5 members of the public will be allowed into the session to watch and experience the event together.
• The event is suggested for participants aged 18 to 50.
• Please consider the above instructions before registering. We warmly invite you to make a reservation.

* This is an interactive experience. If any parts of your body are sensitive, off-limits, or injured, and you feel the guide should make special note, please inform us in the “Special Note” field of the registration form.

2. Instructions for Online Reservation 

• Starting Nov. 28, 2022, online reservations will be available for the current week and the following week. Reservations will only be available for two weeks at any time.
• After your reservation has been made, the system will automatically send an acceptance notification to your email account, along with instructions for the event. Please make sure to provide the correct e-mail address!
• If you are unexpectedly unable to attend the event, please cancel online in advance, or telephone TFAM to inform us of your cancellation. This will free up your place for other people who are interested in taking part.
• To ensure the quality of the event, only online reservations are available. Waiting on standby at the gallery is not allowed.
• We recommend using a computer to make your reservations. We do not recommend using mobile phones, which require different application procedures depending on the system version.
• Participating in the event is free of charge. Please purchase an ordinary TFAM visitor’s ticket when entering the museum.

* If you have any questions, please write or call from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday to Friday.

Ms. Hung / field.at.tfam2022@gmail.com / 0911-701-133

Ms. Su, Exhibition Department / field.at.tfam2022@gmail.com / 02-2595-7656 #216

Script

Liu Yu

Bodily sensation interpretation consultant

Hue-Wen Lee

Bodily sensation guides

Chin-Ting Liao, Ning Wang

Music

Ziming Feng

Artwork production

Sih-Chin Wu

Special thanks to:

Chien-Ju Chia

Yu-Ting Tung

Hsien-Yu Cheng

Shi-Fan Tsai

Ming-Chen Lee

Notes: The event is held at 204 gallery of tfam.