A Call of All Beings

The Taichung Art Museum opens with its inaugural exhibition A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place, grounded in the unique landscape of Central Park where the museum now stands. Once the site of a military base and Shuinan Airport, the area has been transformed into a metropolitan green space, layered with memories and entangled in histories of spatial, cultural, and ecological governance. Starting from this evolving terrain, the exhibition explores the intertwined—sometimes visible or invisible—relationships between humans, animals, plants and their shifting environments, reflecting on coexistence across natural and urban worlds.

Jointly curated by the Taichung Art Museum curatorial team, Taiwanese curator Ling-Chih Chow, American curator Alaina Claire Feldman, and Romanian/Korean curator Anca Mihuleţ-Kim, A  Call of All Beings is conceived as an invitation to gather and reflect collectively—a meeting ground where artists, audiences, and narratives of human and non-human beings across different times and places converge. Visitors are invited to explore the multilayered relationships between humans and the environment through themes such as the histories of flora and fauna, fables and mythologies, migration and movement, and language and storytelling. The exhibition also probes the tension between body and spatial perception, and persistence of the wildness and agency within systems of governance and domestication.

Five interlinked sections unfold these inquiries: In How to draw a coastline?, artists depict the shifting forms of nature and the world across time, tracing both visible landscapes and inner terrains. In Recalling Fables, archives, folklore, and myths are revisited as pathways for reimagining our relationship with the world. In The Troubling of Natural Histories, taxonomies and systems of knowledge that structure natural history and museology are unsettled and reimagined. In Folds and Flows,  artists consider how fundamental dimensions of contemporary existence—space, time, landscape, identity, and remembrance are layered and permeable. Finally, When the World Begins to Speak invites us to listen closely to wounded bodies, displaced memories, repressed emotions, as well as to rivers, animals, and other life forms that elude human language.

Beyond galleries, artworks extend into various public spaces throughout the Green Museumbrary, engaging in dialogue with their surroundings. They question the boundary of public or private, wild or domesticated, and architectural traces embedded in geological layers. These gestures weave the exhibition’s concerns into the very fabric of everyday life.

A Call of All Beings: See you tomorrow, same time, same place is not only a response to present predicaments but also a weaving of future horizons. Gathering here is more than a physical presence—it is a rethinking of how knowledge is produced, a challenge to established systems of classification and value, and an opening for multiple narratives to emerge. It seeks to observe and inquire across multiple scales, and to reconsider art as a means of reawakening perception and unlocking new understandings—ones that might hold room for deeper, broader narratives not yet named.

See you tomorrow, same time, same place—a soft promise of the museum as host and keeper of memory, a gesture toward a future we should practice with responsibility.