"Bat Night Market" Free Exhibition
Exhibition Dates
July 12 (Sat) – August 1 (Fri), closed on Mondays
Tuesday to Saturday: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PMNotice: The exhibition space has a maximum capacity of 50 people. Staff will manage entry based on attendance.
"Bat Night Market" Ticketed Performances
5.5 (一) 12:00 TPAC Member pre-sale
5.12 (一) 12:00 Tickets can be purchasedJuly 12 (Sat) 19:00 July 13 (Sun) 10:30
July 19 (Sat) 19:00 July 20 (Sun) 10:30
July 26 (Sat) 19:00 July 27 (Sun) 10:30Ticket Prices｜NT$700 Parent-Child Duo Ticket / NT$500 Single Ticket
Duration｜60 to 90 minutes, depending on individual experience pace.Notice｜
◎ 60–90 mins, varies by individual experience.
◎ In Mandarin without surtitles.
◎ $700 ticket for 1 adult (18+) and 1 child. Includes 1 shared meal. Please check details when booking.
◎ Includes food-tasting interaction. Check ingredients on Opentix before booking.
◎ Latecomers and re-entry subject to discretion.
★ Do you want to become a little bat guardian?
★ What would happen if bats disappeared from the world in the future?
Without bats to feed on pests, the crops that farmers work so hard to grow would be ravaged, leading to food shortages. Without bats to scatter seeds, forests would struggle to grow, leaving countless animals without homes. Without bats flying in the night sky, their sounds would disappear, and the world would fall into silence.
A world without bats would be completely different from what we know today!
🦇Future Food Adventure
The night market serves food, unlike anything you’ve ever seen! With bats gone, pests have taken over, and crops have dwindled. To survive, chefs have had to invent “future foods”—would you dare to taste them?
🦇The Secrets of Bat Scientists
Meet real-life bat scientists and uncover the incredible ways bats support the ecosystem. You’ll also encounter unique characters who will challenge you to think: What went wrong in this world without bats? Can we find a way to fix it?
🦇Dice Game: Bat Rescue Mission
Join an action-packed dice game where you become a poisoned bat struggling to survive! Use echolocation to navigate obstacles and make it to safety. Along the way, you’ll learn about bat habitats and how to protect them. Are you ready for the challenge?
🦇Light and Sound Journey
Step into a mysterious space illuminated by shimmering lights, resembling bats in flight. Listen carefully, and you’ll hear distant echoes—messages from bats, reminding us to cherish and protect these fascinating creatures.
This isn’t just an adventure—it’s a journey of discovery and reflection. Join us in “Bat Festival—Future Tense” to explore the vital role of bats in nature and learn how we can safeguard the future of our ecosystem.
※Commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center
Photo by 蔡耀徵
Taiwanese artist Ku Kuang-Yi and British designer Robert Johnson
Ku Kuang-Yi has long focused on the conflicts between wildlife conservation and Asian culinary culture, particularly examining how conventional medicine and cuisine impact endangered species. His notable projects, such as Tiger Penis Project, Millennium Ginseng Project, and New Ultimate Imperial Feast, seek sustainable dietary alternatives through design and biotechnology.
British designer Robert Johnson, on the other hand, specializes in visual storytelling and speculative design. His work, backed by the London Design Museum, looks at creative ways to recycle discarded fats.
Together, they lead an interdisciplinary team comprising food designers, dramaturgs, bat ecologists, and biologists, fostering a dialogue between science, sustainability, and artistic innovation.
Ku Kuang-Yi, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
Ku Kuang-Yi was born in Taipei, Taiwan, recently based in the Netherlands and Taiwan. He co-founded TW BioArt (a bioart community in Taiwan) to stimulate the fields of BioArt and Science+Art in Taiwan. He has graduated with triple master degrees with social design from Design Academy Eindhoven, dentistry from National Yang-Ming University and communication design from Shih Chien University. Formerly a dentist, Ku is a bio-artist and speculative designer. He attempts to expand the possibilities of combining arts, design and science. His works often focus on clinical medicine, human body, interspecies interaction and sexuality. He tries to explore ethical issues in the scientific field through artistic practice and design methods, aiming to investigate the relationships among technology, individual and the environment.
Ku Kuang-Yi’s Tiger Penis Project has been awarded Gijs Bakker Award 2018, the annual prize for the best project by a graduating master’s student in Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also won the 1st prize of Taipei Digital Art Awards in 2015 with The Fellatio Modification Project, where he involves body modification, gender studies, queer theories, and dentistry all together. His works were featured in international media such as New Scientist, The Huffington Post, Elephant Magazine, DAMN° Magazine, Dezeen, Designboom, VICE, Dazed Digital, Daily Mail, New York Post and so on.
Robert Johnson, England
Robert Johnson is a British designer with an MA in Social Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven and founder of Studio Ficta, a creative start-up that fuses film, interactive design, and design research across anthropological, ecological, and social contexts.
Working with film and interactive design, Johnson's projects create alternative narratives using fictional writing as a design research tool, creating characters and dialogues that highlight issues surrounding social attitudes towards labour, materials, and waste streams within the circular economy. Using this specific approach to researching holistic systems, developed during his Master degree, he explores cross-collaborative methods for human innovation from the most unexpected corners of society.
In 2020, Johnson completed his residency at the Design Museum, London, where his project titled Fatconomy presented fat as a valuable resource in urban society, illustrating the potential of discarded fats for the economy, material innovation and urban planning.
Cast & Creative
Lead Artist: Ku Kuang-Yi
Lead Artist: Robert Johnson
Dramaturg: Huang Ding-Yun
Food Artist: Rain Wu
Chef team & Chef: The Studio (Jessica Lin)
Taiwan Producer: Chan Hui-Chun (Holly)
UK Producer: Lin Hao-Wen
Scientists: Chou Cheng-Han, Gemma Bowsher, Martha Gallardo Galaviz, Scientists: Lucy Di-Silvio
Graphic Designer: Chou Po-Chun
Motion Graphics Director: Lee Chia-Hua
Motion Graphics Assistants: Huang Xuan-Jie, Deer Sheng
Stage Manager: Sun Wei-Zhen
Stage Technical Director: Yu Ray-Pei
Video Engineer: He Yu-Wei Live
Sound Engineer: Blackrice Creative Studio LTD.
Lighting Designer and Master electrician: Lien Ssu-Yun
Performers: Kao Nai-Sen, Yin Hsuan Fang, Sora Ling, Tsai Cheng-Han, Yang Qi-Yin (listed in alphabetical order of the last name)
Executive Producer: Chen Yu-Che
Production Facilitation: Holly Production Studio
Special Thanks to Chen Chun-Ting, Luke Keyte, Sun Wei-Lun (listed in alphabetical order of the last name)
Organizer: Taipei City Government and Taipei Performing Arts Center
Ticket Benefits
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2025.5.5 (Mon.) 12:00 ── 5.12 (Mon.) 11:59 Member pre-sale
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2024.5.12 (Mon.) 12:00 Official launch of sales
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May 5, 2025 (Mon) 12:00 PM – June 8, 2025 (Sun) 11:59 PM
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【 Cross-industry Benefits 】
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【 Group Ticket Discounts 】
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- 100 or more tickets in a single order: 30% off.
【 Other Discounts 】
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