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Main Lantern Area
The giant Pegasus lantern stands as the central symbol, channeling Taoyuan’s identity as the “Gateway City” – its speed, courage, and urban energy – into a declaration of light reaching the night sky. Pegasus is more than a mythical creature; it embodies the city’s spirit: soaring through clouds, its wings igniting the future, reflecting Taoyuan’s continuous rise in industry, transportation, and innovation. Through grand mechanical motion and synchronized light and sound, the performance turns light into an engine of momentum, allowing viewers to feel the “leap” in every rise, rotation, and upward glance.
Surrounding the main lantern, the “Shiny Peach Grove” light-art trees spread luminous branches and leaves as a field of urban blessings: each glowing tree represents the blooms and fruits of the New Year, translating Pegasus’s soaring energy into a welcoming scene. This area is both a festival landmark and a New Year ritual: wishing under the peach-light canopy and setting off under Pegasus’s wings, every ray of light embodies the city’s collective vision of rising, moving forward, and reaching the world.
Main Lantern - Pegasus Illuminates Taoyuan
The main lantern is a full-metal Pegasus, its body formed from over 300 metallic facets of polyhedral steel, laser-welded to reflect Taoyuan’s industrial strength and technical craftsmanship. It incorporates repurposed aerospace aluminum and structural materials, transforming metals once used for flight into symbolic wings of urban takeoff, telling the story of Taoyuan Aerotropolis and industrial transformation.
The dynamic performance features multi-axis mechanical wings and a 360-degree rotating platform, synchronized to music and lighting, that simulate wing expansion, flapping, and turning. Laser beams trace Pegasus’s flight across the night sky, marking a memorable moment of the city’s launch into the future.
Shiny Peach Grove
“Shiny Peach Grove” is a light art installation featuring metal structures and programmable light sources. Its clustered arrangement creates a forest-like lightscape, balancing natural imagery with human-made order.
The “peach grove” represents a spatial state rather than a literal landscape. Hexagonal light rings unfold at the top of the structure, with colors and rhythms operating independently yet responding to one another, creating a layered, decentralized glow.Light is not concentrated but continuously generated throughout the space.
The term “Shiny” comes from Hakka, conveying a sense of brightness and expansiveness rather than mere beauty. The name makes language part of the space itself, rather than a descriptive label, letting visitors from any cultural background enter through their own experience.
Future Light Realm
This area serves as the “Gateway Prelude” of the festival: entering the space is not just stepping into an exhibition, but embarking on a future route starting from Taoyuan. Curated around “Aviation × Technology × Hospitality × Diversity,” the area combines welcoming guests, performances, interactive exhibits, theater, stage shows, religious collaborations, cuisine, and community co-creation into a walkable urban theater.
Here, technology is not flashy but “understood interaction”; internationalism is not distant but “embraced diversity.” The goal is for every visitor to leave with a clear impression: Taoyuan’s light can connect the world and illuminate the future.
Full-color lighting illuminates the night sky, conveying the city’s vision through light and shadow. Interactive technology turns visitors’ movements into trails of light, while stages showcase youth creativity and foster international exchange. Collaborations with religious groups reinterpret local beliefs through a contemporary lens, allowing tradition to be experienced anew. Meanwhile, diverse cuisine engages all the senses, making hospitality not just a word, but a tangible, memorable experience.
Blooming Peach Blossoms
The first gateway into the lantern area uses “peach blossoms” as a symbol of blessing: layered petals signify good fortune and growth at the start of the New Year. Atop the gate, Taoyuan’s AI travel assistant “TaoTao” waves continuously like a tireless greeter, wishing every visitor a “Happy New Year.”The arch blends warm wood textures with veins of golden light, softly glowing at night and retaining its distinctive, photo-friendly form by day. Flower-shaped patterns on the ground guide visitors, creating an inviting space where they can pause and take pictures. The overall arched design turns entering the lantern area into a New Year ritual of “welcoming good fortune” for families, travelers, and local residents alike.
Peach Happiness at the Door
“Peach Happiness at the Door” uses a gate as a ceremonial threshold, conveying Taoyuan’s festive spirit and guiding visitors into the lantern area. The structure is laser-cut metal, translating traditional paper-cut and window patterns into precise openwork designs. Each cut retains the craftsmanship’s essence while modern manufacturing ensures structural stability, directing and layering the light. The circular gate symbolizes completeness and reunion, allowing visitors to walk through as if receiving New Year blessings.
Butterfly Wings of Light
Transforming Taoyuan’s rich butterfly ecology into a large swing-based interactive installation.
As visitors swing, butterfly wings open and close, with light and shadows shifting across the surface, creating the illusion of butterflies dancing.
Glowing cloud-shaped seats surround the swing, echoing the imagery of butterflies flying above clouds while providing rest and viewing space. Perched above the clouds, visitors can look up to see the wings’ rhythmic movement and shifting light, immersing themselves in an artistic space shaped by both light and mechanics.
Chain of Good Words
“Chain of Good Words” is a giant wooden megaphone inviting visitors to voice thoughts usually left unsaid.
Visitors can speak freely – whether New Year wishes, playful jokes, or quiet affections – and AI voice translation instantly converts their words into colorful greetings that ripple across the megaphone, turning language into visible energy that flows through the space.
Come Enjoy Taoyuan Together
“Come Enjoy Taoyuan Together” is more than a character installation – it’s a light and shadow experience that speaks through food and celebrates local rhythms.
At the center, the Taoyuan AI travel assistant “TaoTao” serves as the emotional core of the space, greeting visitors with a warm, rounded presence. Instead of waving flags, TaoTao hands out bamboo skewers, guiding people into Taoyuan in the most approachable, everyday way.
Daxi Tofu Skewer: small tofu, vegetarian chicken, and kelp are arranged in alternating patterns, evoking the savory scents of an old street afternoon. Subtle yet rich in character, they reflect the craftsmanship and everyday flavors of Taoyuan.
Lala Mountain Fruit Skewer: peaches, honey apples, and persimmons appear in a rhythmic sequence, translating the highland mists, seasonal cycles, and natural gifts into bites of glowing sweetness.
Hakka Bun Skewer: plump and round, symbolizing thrift, reunion, and sharing, expressing culture in its gentlest, most familiar form at the table.
Shimen Live Fish Skewer: inspired by the ‘three ways to enjoy live fish,’ they reinterpret the water memory of Shimen Reservoir, letting the dynamic flow between mountain and sea come alive again in light.
Playful Fun
The city begins at our feet. Each painted lantern is a brushstroke, and as people move past, the text comes alive.
Children’s work becomes “walkable images,”transforming light from illumination into visual language and corridors into reading spaces. The goal is low-tech, high-participation public art that is easily understood and embraced.
Starlit Canopy
Children’s painted lanterns are elevated overhead, forming a static starry sky to look up to. This is not a light show but a calming light dome, giving streets a reason to lift one’s gaze for an extended time.
Light Pattern Gallery
Using children’s painted lanterns, this corridor connects each stroke of innocence into a glowing timeline. Every lantern records growth: hometown colors, imagined skies, and small New Year wishes. When lit at night, they become more than decoration – a city passing memories to children, and children returning them as a gentle testimony.
Bountiful Peach Garden
Taoyuan’s multicultural identity is reflected in its diverse communities, including Hokkien, Hakka, Indigenous, military dependents, and newcomers from around the world, forming a unique “New Indigenous-Hakka” culture with an international outlook.
The “bountiful harvest” symbolizes abundant agricultural yield and, by extension, fruitful achievements in all aspects of life, representing prosperity, joy, and accomplishment.
Meow-Meow Brings Blessings
“Meow-Meow Brings Blessings” is not just a photo spot – it’s an interactive blessing installation for public participation.
Step into the red frame, mimic a cat’s wave, speak your wish, and use your phone to draw a fortune slip through augmented reality, launching a “year of blessings” and inviting good luck for the year ahead.
It also serves as a starting point for multicultural sharing: no matter your ethnicity or language, the gesture of waving carries the same meaning – welcome, blessing, and good fortune together.Children imitate, elders smile knowingly, travelers pause – three generations in one frame, creating opening-day photos uniquely belonging to Taoyuan.
AR Interactive Light Installations
Among the seven works in the BenQ Land Arts Festival, six feature AR interactive effects.
Through AR technology, art comes alive: with a simple scan on your phone, witness a treasure bowl scattering gold, colorful horses galloping, and sky lanterns ascending, delivering a dazzling, eye-opening New Year experience.
Resonance of Vision
AR Effect: Point your phone at the device’s eye contour symbol and tap to trigger the “eye-opening” AR effect.
Aperture ripple effect + pink heart burst effect
Artist: Yu-jen Kuan
Title: Resonance of Vision
In a future shaped by rapid technological growth, computers and smartphones no longer serve merely as tools – they act as intermediaries, facilitating communication and offering support between people, and between humans and nature. Artificial intelligence helps humans perceive the rhythms of the natural world and encourages sustainable action, creating a broad, harmonious resonance that weaves together a symphony of connection.“Resonance of Vision” uses flowing light and shifting sound to craft a vast, warm space of shared experience. Visitors not only witness the extension of their surroundings but also feel an echo within their own hearts – technology is no longer cold, but a gentle guide helping us understand nature, embrace sustainability, and live in harmony.In this interplay of light, shadow, and sound, individuals and communities, reality and imagination, nature and intelligence, all resonate together, giving rise to a world that is tender, powerful, and profoundly beautiful.
Forest Breathing
AR Effect: The sculpture rises in the shape of a sky lantern. Scanning the QR code instantly triggers AR effects, showing colorful sky lanterns drifting upward around the site, each inscribed with New Year blessings such as “Immediate Wealth,” “Charge Ahead,” and “Peace and Prosperity.”
Artist: XavierGonzalez
Title: Forest Breathing
From the core of raw granite, organic metal forms emerge like moving tentacles, suspended between retreat and return, or moving toward the breathing forest. The work explores the tension between minerals and life, stillness and motion.Silent granite, weighty and ancient, embodies memory, eternity, and depth. In contrast, the corten steel tentacles evoke motion, impulse, and transformation – a presence at once marine, vegetal, and sensory – resonating with the rhythms of nature. These emerging forms carry a force from within, a quiet yearning for light, and the invisible energy that shapes all living forms.
In Between
AR Effect: The sculpture resembles a massive “treasure bowl.”Viewing it through a mobile device reveals AR effects of red envelopes, ingots, and gold coins falling from the sky.
Artist: Kubo Takeshi
Title: In Between
Through creative expression and emotional resonance, the work reflects the artist’s navigation of personal integration and disconnection with the world. It makes an invisible divide visible, giving form to the silent tension between presence and absence. Though made of natural materials, the sculpture is deliberately crafted into an independent space, a visual metaphor for the artist’s internal, quiet unrest.In a state between “integration” and “detachment,” the gaps in the bamboo weave let light shine through and air circulate, mirroring the imperfect rhythm between humans and their environment. The work makes “separation” tangible, yet its flowing curves and organic forms hint at the potential for reconciliation and understanding.As visitors step inside, they enter the artist’s intermediary space – a place of quiet contemplation and reflection.
Bamboo Flow
AR Effect: Inspired by flowing blessings, beams of light rise toward the sky, ascending like bamboo shoots, symbolizing a successful year in work and study.
Artist: Kuei-chih Lee
Title: Bamboo Flow
A site-specific installation using bamboo as its language and fluidity as its structural principle. Multiple elongated bamboo sculptures extend from the ground in different directions, converging and intertwining in the air to form an organic, open, dynamically evolving space. It moves like a current, growing along no single axis, responding to the unseen yet ever-present energies of nature. The work reflects the historical fabric of the Hutoushan Innovation Hub, a former military grid now transforming into an open, shared platform for cultural and creative exchange.Its multidirectional convergence and aerial intersections symbolize the deconstruction of order and the reassembly of future narratives, bridging disciplined spatial logic with generative site dynamics, and sparking dialogue between technology and nature, past and future, human and non-human. “Bamboo Flow” summons invisible currents and perceptions, translating unseen forces into a poetic spatial experience and serving as a perceptual device within the site’s temporal flow.
Nature
AR Effect: Inspired by the sculpture’s spiral form. Activate the AR effect by aligning the on-screen guide with the center of the installation and tapping to trigger rotating stardust and meteor effects. This symbolizes, at the start of the New Year, turning the vortex of fortune to transform the dust of the past year into the starlight of the year ahead.
Artist: LiliyaPobomikova
Title: Nature
Soft curves move in harmony with natural rhythms, resembling life forms growing from deep within the earth. The form recalls newly unfurled fern fronds as well as spiral seashells, symbolizing nature’s continuous cycles of regeneration and creation. Through organic forms, the work awakens awareness of “natural order” and, through light, curved surfaces, and the movement of air, creates a poetic balance between motion and stillness.
Within nature’s embrace, art is no longer an external intervention but an extension of the land itself, a gesture of respect, tribute, and integration. Through keen observation and gentle emotion toward nature, the work becomes a place of inner refuge, allowing viewers to rediscover the simple beauty of existence itself.
Sun Gate - Flower
AR Effect: The surrounding space transforms into vibrant, multicolored “Five Horses” galloping in a circular motion. The five horses represent Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity, Joy, and Wealth.
Artist: TapiwulanKulele
Title: Sun Gate – Flower
The circular structure forms the core of the work, symbolizing a point of passage and blooming. It serves as a gateway toward light and hope, and as a rising sun. The circular form carries the flow of time, expressing cultural momentum that moves from within outward, and from the past toward the future.Built from square steel pipes and recycled metal components, the work continues the decorative language and handcrafted spirit of tribal festivals, while expressing a belief in sustainability and renewal.Every weld bears the mark of time, layered with memory, effort, and the enduring light of cultural continuity.As an artist who gazes toward the sun, Kulele transforms the work into a gate that faces the light, inviting people to feel the warmth of hope within it, blooming like flowers and enduring like the sun.
Life Tree
Artist: Muxiang Kang
Title: Life Tree
The artist has long believed that trees possess a spirit, carrying the energy of heaven and earth and the memory of all living things. In recent years, relentless human development and resource extraction have led to frequent forest fires around the world, turning countless trees to ashes.Using fire extinguishers, objects that symbolize the act of “putting out flames,” Kang reshapes the image of life in “Life Tree,” reminding us that trees are not only guardians of the Earth but also the source of human wisdom and life itself. This work is a prayer, a hope that humanity may regain reverence for nature, allowing forests consumed by fire to be reborn in consciousness and no longer be swallowed by the flames of desire.
Dreamland
Within the Amusement Park Lantern Zone, colorful lantern displays are combined with popular rides to create a dreamlike wonderland beloved by families.
Children can board “Lantern Sea Explorer,” sailing through a sea of lights on a brave and joyful adventure; transform into little knights on “Glowing Knight,” riding forward under shimmering lights and experiencing the thrill of speed and laughter; or enjoy fairy-tale moments aboard the gently spinning “Starlight Carousel,” surrounded by romantic lantern glow.
As night falls, the ever-popular “Happy Train” slowly departs, carrying families through the lantern festival grounds and leaving behind warm memories unique to the Taoyuan Lantern Festival.
Lantern Sea Explorer
Setting sail amid a dazzling sea of lights, “Lantern Sea Explorer” sways gently with the motion of the boat, unfolding an exciting and joyful nighttime adventure. Sparkling lights combined with rhythmic movement allow visitors of all ages to enjoy a safe yet surprise-filled experience, showcasing the adventurous charm of the Taoyuan Lantern Festival.
Glowing Knight
“Glowing Knight” combines adorable design with lantern festival lighting, allowing children to become brave little knights as they ride forward, accompanied by glowing light. The simple and easy-to-enjoy experience lets children delight in a sense of speed and achievement through laughter, making it a popular ride for family fun.
Starlight Carousel
The dreamy “Starlight Carousel” rotates slowly in the night, surrounded by colorful lanterns that create a fairy-tale lantern festival scene. Soft lighting and gentle melodies allow visitors of all ages to create their warmest lantern festival memories with every turn.
Happy Train
The “Happy Train” travels through the lantern festival grounds filled with laughter, making it the most soothing ride for families to enjoy together. Accompanied by lantern scenery along the route, visitors can leisurely admire the highlights of the Taoyuan Lantern Festival by day or night – creating an unforgettable journey for children.
