Stories Written
by the Sky

National Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan Oct - Dec 2025

If a seed could speak of its memories, which fragments would it carry into the future? In this immersive cinematic installation, the red quinoa becomes narrator: not merely a plant, but a witness, a traveler. It tells us that it has tasted the hot breeze of Taiwan and once laid still beneath the permafrost of the Arctic.

Stories Written by the Sky is a collaborative work by HSURAE Studio, Nancy Valladares, HWH, DYNOMAN, and Paul Yeh. Inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the surrounding Arctic terrain, the work constructs a narrative journey that spans geological time, evolutionary time, and human time. The story is non-linear and does not belong to a single subject. It is a spiraling, collective dream, reassembled again and again through audience interaction.

Installation Views 2025 : Images Courtesy of NTMOFA

STACKABLE IMMERSIVE OPEN WORLD

Stories Written By the Sky uses an innovative Narrative Recombination framework by combining M5 Stack IOT, Unity, Touch Designer and Reaper. Shot in 360 Video, this project began as an experiment in open-world storytelling in cinema. It evolved through extensive collaboration with Loftwork Taiwan ( Paul Yeh ), Haamid Rahim and HWH studio, and the support of National Taiwan Museum of Fine arts, turning into an immersive experience that tests the limits of interaction in 360 environments. SWBTS, is also fully spatialized in 16.5 audio.

The interface is a set of 80 Narrative "tiles" that correspond to a video ( a memory fragment ), shot between the landscapes of the Svalbard Archipelago and zones of environmental friction in the island of Taiwan. The audience is then invited to participate in the reassembling this memory archive set 300 years in the future. Participants choose tiles to create a new narrative, that recombine and reassemble into short films.