Secretive power plant in Taiwan opens to public for the first time — as an art space

The atmospheric art installation shines a light on the history of Beigan, a small Taiwanese island on the frontline of tensions with mainland China.

In a sleepy Taiwanese island village just eight miles off the coast of mainland China, scooters whiz past an unassuming building that has stood here, largely overlooked, for decades. As far as residents of Beigan — part of the outlying archipelago of Matsu — are concerned, the structure houses the entrance to a decommissioned Cold War-era thermal power plant dug deep into a mountain.

Orange lights projected onto the power generators themselves accentuate the rusty metal of the machinery. The lighting designers behind the art installation, Annie Chu and Liu Ping-yi, told CNN in a joint interview that the lamps’ arrangement and low-temperature colors were designed to evoke the feeling that the power plant is still in operation.

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