The area of Yuanshan abounds with different heights in sight. KO try to travel between these different heights and to understand the height and perspective experienced by people in the ancient times. He contemplates what the primitive paradise is about, in which he realizes the meaning of the children’s amusement park is a reminder of heights. Rides and attractions can easily bring people back to the height which we experienced during the era of Taipei Lake’s Yuanshan island, but it fails to bring him back to that time.
As for KO, he is a child without paradise, trying to retrieve the heights that once belonged to paradise, and to understand how people in the ancient times entertained themselves in paradise. In the end, KO comes to realize from the view at the Grand Hotel that paradise is not confined to heights or a purposeful investigation.
Born in Taipei in 1994, Ta-Sheng KO was graduated from the Department of New Media Art at the National Taipei University of the Arts. His works and research focus more on the history behind the living environment and the landscape.He is also deeply interested in the misreading and hyperlinks between various texts. He often uses his own physical contact to try to experience the history he had not been involved in.
