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Nanyang Radio Station: An Audio Guide for 228 Peace Memorial Park (EN)
南洋放送局:為新公園所做的聲音導覽 (英文)
December 16th, 2020Type: Taiwan
Author: Syafiatudina, Rikey Tenn Editor: Open-Contemporary Art Center

This radio program is stemmed from the “Nanyang Radio Station: An Audio Guide for 228 Peace Memorial Park” during Petamu Project, co-organized by Nusantara Archive and Open-Contemporary Art Center in 2018. The 228 Peace Memorial Park was formerly known as Taipei New Park, the second exhibition venue of Taiwan Expo in 1935. The original project was presented in two ways – a radio-based installation and an audio-guided tour. As the tour reached its end, all of the participants followed the voice guidance, heading towards Taiwan Radiobroadcasting Booth (註1) situated in the center of the park. Despite the fact that the booth is no longer in use, still it is imaginable that the civilians had gathered here and been stunned by the broadcast of Gyokuon-hōsō (“The Imperial Rescript on Surrender”) (註2) – announcing the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan to the Allies in Taiwan, which was served as the industrial base modernized along with Japan’s Southern expansion, while immersing in the sense of “being united” created by the radio wave. All of a sudden, the Taiwanese general public had no choice but to change their identification since the broadcast was an official announcement of the unclaimed future existing way before the change which people might wish to happen. (Voiceover: Wu Ting-kuan, Linda Linarta, Au Sow Yee)


Footnote
[1] See: Taiwan Radiobroadcasting Booth (Wikipedia).
[2] See: Jewel Voice Broadcast (Wikipedia).