If, a Family Trip is an ongoing collaborative series consists of field survey, writing-sound experiment, and phased development. Treating an imaginary “investigation report of endangered ballads” as the point of departure, this project attempts to represent the interdependent lyrics and melodies as well as the “phantoms” behind them through the exiting written records. This is a journey of exploration and experimentation, on which we will re-examine the existing yet blurred boundaries within the archives. If photo albums are archives of private history, how can we interpret the memories and false memories they hold? The project’s problématique or subject revolves around two key words: “family trip” and “ballads.” The history of “travel” is tantamount to the expression history of human mobility, and the historical significance of “family trip,” seemingly belonging to the realm of private history, has evolved continuously. The term “ballad” here refers to the multi-dimensional possessions of voice or sound, which seems to be linked with auditory sense only. Treating ballads as a part of radical geography, the project regards sound as the crystal composed of action, interaction and event. Centering on Taiwan and stretching our imagination south- and north-bound, this project creates a dialogue of an “imaginary trip” by collecting locals’ memories of ballads and giving new aura and connotation to the lyrics or melodies of ballads. Then, it complies and assembles several ballads and transforms them into a theatrical “coda.” By virtue of the exchange records of history and geography that are continuously recombined, reorganized and re-assembled, this project tries to transform the endless loop of memories along the plural timelines betwixt and between the past future, contemporary, and upcoming future, thereby allowing the “coda” to be interpreted in various forms and venues.

If, a Family Trip series includes: 
If, a Final Chapter for a Family Trip: Dreams of a Cave Wolf, Exile of a Wild Boar (2020)
If, a Final Chapter for a Family Trip: Family Trip No. 1 (2020/2021)
If, a Family Trip: IAFT Gather Garden (online performance/exhibition,2021)
If, a Family Trip: A World (2021)
If, a Family Trip: A World (2022)
Aerofuture  (2023 NTCAM On the Move: Interweaving Travelers)