The last visitor has left. The work remembers.
Across three rooms at Taichung Art Museum, Daito Manabe lets visitors' behaviour become part of the work.
By Look Three Small editors · Xitun, Taichung
Relational Time: Life Beyond Simulation
Daito Manabe · 2026
Key visual, Daito Manabe: Relational Time; curator Joel Kwong. Image: Taichung Art Museum / Editorial use
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On view through January 3, 2027; reach it by MRT to Wenhua Senior High School, then the Green 4 bus.
In Daito Manabe's Relational Time, how visitors move, pause and approach each other can help shape what the next person encounters.
Manabe describes Room B as an ecology that accumulates visitor behaviour. Traces fade and mingle with other people's traces. When you arrive, the work has already spent time with strangers.
In Room A, AI agents read a simulation of cells and particles. Their judgments return to its parameters and choice of algorithms, changing what happens next. Room C distributes twenty-four points of sensing and sound through the space. Movement, distance and pauses alter sound's position, rhythm and density.
I'd want to return a few days later and see how much had changed.
Get there
Public transport
Take the MRT Green Line to Wenhua Senior High School, then the Green 4 or Green 4 extension bus to the 綠美圖(中科路) stop.
Sources
- Daito Manabe: Relational Time ↗ — The artist on Rooms A, B and C
- Taichung Art Museum: Relational Time ↗ — Dates, rooms and key visual
- Taichung Art Museum: announcement ↗ — Exhibition announcement
- Taichung: October 24 suspension ↗ — The actual full-day October 24 suspension
- Taichung Art Museum: visitor information ↗ — Hours, fees, transit and viewing advisories