In this essay, a creative project that I have been working on since 2018 to this day (in 2022); it is centering on the legendary “pyramid” (Mt. Ketagalan) and then extends to other aspects. The pyramid is located at the suburban Taipei City that I thought I’ve been familiar with – on top of Qixing Mountain. Its legends, stories, and existence are like an alien to me, ripping off the existing reality and always residing “over there.”
In this discourse, the “local” study and mapping were conducted with memory and percept of archaeology that is sort of inaccurate from this ripped reality. It starts from my personal experience “over there” that is naturally accumulated in my memory as well as the guidance of a myriad of interconnected puncta. I also cited and took the six principles of Heterotopia in Michael Foucault’s Of Other Spaces as the method for analysis in this chapter. Then, based on the memories, archive, documents maps, object, and bodily senses and memories in the field investigations of those that had and had not become history (legends and stories), by I tried to map out some kind of possibility that is an exception to the reality by rewriting it, recreating it, and reinterpreting it. Finally, it tries to shape a concept work composed of many memories, narrations, events, and stories happening at the same time into an elusive and indescribable block in order to express a chaotic status as well as the multi-layered co-existence and presence. In addition, I want to give rooms for the imaginary and freedom to “over-there” that avoids identification and rejects definitions through some kind of vague code of “alternative.”