●○ About 2026 CREATORS
Since launching the CREATORS Creation/Research Support Program (hereafter CREATORS) in 2018, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) has supported creation, research, and cultural experimentation driven by an innovative, cross-disciplinary spirit. Building on this foundation, C-LAB introduced the CREATORS Exhibition/Performance Support Program (CREATORS PLUS) in 2026, enabling previously selected projects to grow into more fully realized exhibitions and performances. Through an exhibition and its accompanying public programs, this year’s edition brings together eight newly selected CREATORS teams and two CREATORS PLUS teams to share their creative practices and progress to date.
●○ Curatorial Statement
We know where we are going—but the way there is not always a straight line.
Amid recurring natural and human-made disasters, the threat of war, and political change, we cannot always proceed straight along the path we set out on. The everyday order we take for granted has in fact taken shape over time through history and relations of power, and it continues to shift as technologies and institutions evolve. When existing rules constrain our actions, can we still exercise our own choices and rethink how space is used, how institutions operate, and how knowledge is passed down? Taking the long way does not mean losing our sense of direction. At times it calls for changing course, waiting, stepping back, or pausing for a while; it may also mean attempting to rewrite the rules through negotiation, rehearsal, and collective action.
The eight CREATORS teams and two CREATORS PLUS teams seek either to reveal how the existing order came into being or to build a provisional alternative of their own. Some return to landscapes on the verge of disappearing; some arrive at new understandings of history through memories of family, migration, and absence; some recalibrate perception through sound, the body, and technology; and others intervene in everyday life through games, collaboration, and temporary collectives, in search of the next path forward.
When going straight is no longer the only shortcut, taking the long way is not simply a search for an exit. Through each change of direction and each action, it becomes a way of reimagining how a path might once again be made by walking it, however complex the terrain.
(Text／LIN Yu-Hsuan)
●○ Info
Date｜2026.11.28 Sat.-12.20 Sun. Closed on Mondays.
Time｜12:00-19:00
Venue｜Kong Zong Cultural Base C7 Art Space III
●○ CREATORS and Their Projects
▍CREATORS Creation/Research Support Program
CAMP! ― Exercises in Collective Action
LIN Yu-Hsuan, JUAN Pin-Wei, LIAO Cong-Hao
Decolonial Tours Desk: Mirrored Routes
WU Chi-Yu, AU Sow Yee, Zian CHEN
The Everyday Development Agency: Field Research on Exhibition Scripts
TSAI Ming-Yueh, LIN Yu-Sheng
Wandering Daughter’s Warfarrying
LEE Tzu-Tung, LEE Mei-Chun, KENG Lu, CHING FuHsiang, PENG Cheng (Cyborg Resilience Co-lab, CRC)
Waiting ___ : An Art ／ Action Project on Idle Time
HO Mu-Yun, CHEN Yan-Liang
910 HIGHVIEW
HUANG Li-Hui
Landing ON-AIR
Ming Baï Lab
Mother Tree: A Theater of Absence
Budi Kang-Hua CHANG
▍CREATORS Exhibition/Performance Support Program (CREATORS PLUS)
Haikou, Without Kou
Delayed Takeoff From Taoyuan (WANG Cheng-Hsiang & LIN Yan-Xiang) x YU Yen-Fang
Noise Reincarnation Bureau
FluidNoise
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●○ Public Program (Registration details will be announced soon.)
▍ Talks
Beyond the Mechanism: Observation, Writing, and Inquiry
12/12 Sat．16:00-18:00
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space Coworking Space
Speaker｜CHEN Yi-Chun, CHAO Duo, HO Mu-Yun, LEE Li-Chun (Moderator)
2027 CREATORS Open Call Briefing
12/19 Sat. 14:00-16:00
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space Coworking Space
Speaker｜CREATORS Program Team, AU Sow Yee, Zian CHEN, TSAI Ming-Yueh, LIN Yu-Sheng, HUANG Li-Hui
▍Guided Tour
Expert Guided Tour
11/29 Sun. 14:00-15:00
Venue｜C1 i-Center 1F
Guide｜CHOW Ling-Chih
Curator’s Tour
12/20 Sun. 14:00-15:00
Venue｜C1 i-Center 1F
Guide｜LIN Yu-Hsuan
●○ CREATORS’ Initiatives (Registration details will be announced soon.)
▍Talks
What Exactly Keeps Art (ists) So Busy ?
12/05 Sat. 14:30–16:30
Venue｜D2 Multi-function Space
Speaker｜KAO Jun-Honn, CHENG Yi-Wen, HSU Yu-Ling, HO Mu-Yun (Moderator)
Documentary Image as Experiment and Action
12/13 Sun. 14:00–16:00
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space Coworking Space
Speaker｜MAO Ya-Feng, CHUNG Pei-Hua, HO Mu-Yun (Moderator)
▍Workshop
Extra Dark Tourism: A Centennial Tour (Playtest), Morning Session
12/05 Sat. 11:00-13:00
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space R202
Host｜WU Chi-Yu, AU Sow Yee, Zian CHEN
Book Launch: An Extra-Dark Tourism Reader
12/05 Sat. 14:30-15:30
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space R202
Host｜WU Chi-Yu, AU Sow Yee, Zian CHEN
Extra Dark Tourism: A Centennial Tour (Playtest), Afternoon Section
12/05 Sat. 16:00-18:00
Venue｜C3 CREATORS’ Space R202
Host｜WU Chi-Yu, AU Sow Yee, Zian CHEN
Seething Tech, Cold-Blooded Vengeance: Feminist Workshop in Resilience
12/12 Sat. 14:00-16:00
Venue｜D2 Multi-function Space
Host｜LEE Tzu-Tung
Co-motion Camp’s Final Showcase
12/13 Sun. 15:30-18:00
Venue｜C7 Art Space III + C3 CREATORS’ Space R201
Speaker｜Co-motion CAMP
▍Performance
“Landing ON-AIR” Live Performance
11/27 Fri. 18:30-19:30
Venue｜C7 Art Space III ｜Square
Concept and Direction｜Ming Baï Lab (LEE Ming-Chieh, Baï LEE)
Haikou, Without Kou: Site- and Time-Specific Performance
12/12 Sat. 09:00-15:00
Venue｜Haikou Village, Dayuan District, Taoyuan City
Performer｜Delayed Takeoff From Taoyuan (Wang Cheng-Hsiang & LIN Yan-Xiang) × YU Yen-Fang
Noise Reincarnation Bureau
12/19 Sat. 19:00-21:00
Venue｜C5 Art Space I｜Gray Box
Performer｜WANG Lien-Cheng, CHANG Che-Yu, CHEN Liang, CHEN Yen-Chi, LIN Yu-De, LEE Yu-Han, FENG Hsin-Yi
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