大台中紀事4─看不見的台中

Located in the suburb of Taichung city, Mao-Sheng Industrial Service is the so-called “Tapau” for aboriginal laborers. Every morning the music from the speaker wakes up those laborers to wash and dress up. No matter how bad the weather is in summer or winter, their laboring bodies are in different construction sites, exposing to the sun and rain all the time. They ask for nothing but the basic needs for family and the future for their kids.

Located in the center of Taichung City, Zhongxin Market is at an alley surrounded by aged townhouses. In the morning, greengrocers and shoppers gathered here, when the night comes, it is artists and cultural workers filled the space. People say that a trend of urban renewal is about to come. Zhongxin market carries the memories of the city and activates its cultural vitality. Will all these be erased so easily?

This is a story about leaving home and the taste memory of home in Taichung.

His job is to put up printed posters on the wall of buildings. Because of the environmental striction, he often does it during midnight. While he works in gasoline station at midnight, with the clear but empty lane along the gasoline station, the unexpectedly appeared cars are just like unique faunas emerging at the dazzling night. In the moment of re-breathing, they gaze at the same city.