TASTE BLIND TEST EXPERIENCE & VIROPHILIA LARGE EXHIBITION
Graphic Design / Activity Space / Installation Art / Advertising Campaign
Client. Smell & Drink Dadaocheng 走味大稻埕＞
City. TAINAN, TAIWAN
TASTE BLIND TEST EXPERIENCE & VIROPHILIA LARGE EXHIBITION
Smell & Drink Dadaocheng is a branded store explores the sense of taste by curating immersive in-store tasting experience. Dadaocheng historical district is a well-known hub where traders from the northern and southern part of Taiwan meet for trading. Our selection of beverages features four signature notes of Dadaocheng - Chinese herbs, herbs and flowers, fruits and nuts.
We curate our beverage selection according to 12 different tasting notes, and we would like to invite you to find out which note is your favorite through blind tasting.
Every drink will give you taste of Taiwanese earthy terroir, and every taste is an appreciation toward our top-notched baristas, tea makers and beer makers in Taiwan.
味覺盲測＆病毒滋味 體驗展
「走味大稻埕」是一個關於味覺體驗的實驗品牌，於2017年底開始，在迪化街開啟「100天」味覺盲測快閃之後，引領咖啡、茶、啤酒領域對於味覺的高度關注，從而帶動更多味覺相關的體驗與創意。希望藉由味覺體驗的設計，讓大家體會到飲品的本質。
經過兩年快閃，走味大稻埕首度移展台南，除了以擴香的形式，打造全新的味覺盲測體驗，此次更加入顛覆味覺體驗的全新特展「病毒之愛」，讓到訪的人，藉由設計師 林沛瑩的病毒食譜，能夠對病毒有全新的體驗與理解。
台南的展場空間位於台南市中西區StableNice BLDG.（靜好生活空間）三樓，一樓分別是「原印台南」與近期話題十足的「StableNice Cafe」，以及位於七股區致力於發展台灣在地紡織文化的HMTM和明織品文化館。
Blind Tasting Instructions
Step 1 Smell - Smell the diffuser bottle, every diffuser bottle holds a type of beverage.
Step 2 Select - Choose a flavour you like, and ask for the drink answer from the cashier.
Step 3 Taste - Order the beverage of your selection, enjoy it in-store or to go.
味覺盲測區：只聞味道而不知飲品名稱的「味覺盲測」點單
此次精選包含小草作、阿信巧克力農場、啤酒頭釀造、沃隼釀造、不二堂等12種富含特色的台灣茶、精釀啤酒、無咖啡因茶之外，並邀請前壹二茶堂合夥人陳貞霓進行杯測，再依據咖啡、茶、啤酒的風味輪交叉比對，每種飲品拆解出最重要的三個風味。
展覽現場除了可看到每種飲品完整風味輪的展示，還可用聞香紙沾取擴香瓶內精油，以嗅覺體驗拆解後的風味味道，最後，再根據試聞的喜好，選擇喜歡的風味組合號碼後，於櫃檯獲得盲測答案。
Virophilia
This project comes from a very simple question: Can we start to see the connotation of viruses differently, especially those that causes infectious diseases？ The reason why such question is being asked has a very strong historical and scientific background. In biological definition, viruses, unlike bacteria, are not consider as ‘living’. It is due to the fact that viruses themselves do not equip with essential components that can facilitate their replication. In other words, viruses cannot replicate themselves. They are doomed to be the ‘parasites’ on living creatures, and human is one of them. When viruses borrow our cells as their replication factories, our body system become unstable, our body immune system reacts, and at the macro scale we get sick. Though the interaction is much more sophisticated than how we commonly understand.
The biological world is vast and evolving. We as one of the biological habitants that share the same basic building blocks with other living and semi-living things, we are born to be included in the cycle of evolutions. We share the same genetic codes with viruses, and for their semi-living status, we have not yet develop a medicine to cure them but only merely stop them from further replicating. At the same time, not all viruses are pathogens. New discoveries of beneficial viruses are starting to reveal, some are even crucial for our survival. The amount of viruses surrounding us also vastly outnumber what we have known now. To make it short, human and viruses depends on the existence of each other. Evolution is a non-stoping competition and collaboration.
This project is to investigate the possibilities of human-virus encounter in the realm of culture through different facilitation of events, performances, and materiality to build up new discourse and sensible understandings.
病毒滋味區：17道「以毒入菜病毒料理」，打破你對病毒的想像
「想要理解病毒，還有什麼是比『吃』更親近人體的方式？」旅居荷蘭的思辨設計師林沛瑩把病毒化身料理，用最新研究成果－《病毒之愛》作品，由五個食譜章節、17道病毒料理，從2020年通往22世紀，引領人們思索病毒存在的意義與價值。
藝術家林沛瑩《與病毒的合作備忘錄 Proposals of Collaboration with the Viral Entities》系列作品：
《病毒馴獸師計畫 Tame is to Tame》與《病毒之愛 Virophilia》得到歐洲執行委員會（European Commission）2020年的STARTS Prize 科學、科技和藝術大獎榮譽獎。
STARTS Prize的評審團認為林沛瑩的作品「在COVID-19疫情時代讓我們更深刻的理解到人類作為一個在生態系中的一個物種的位置」、「如同琳、馬古利斯的《共生星球》所認為共生才是演化的驅動力，而與細菌的共生讓人類變成超生物體，病毒對人類來說也是另一種共生的對象而不是敵人」並且「透過討論人類與其他生物的共同生存開啟了創新的可能性」。
《與病毒的合作備忘錄 Proposals of Collaboration with the Viral Entities》系列於2020年下半年將在比利時、瑞士與英國展出。同時該作品也會參與今年的林茲電子藝術節線上展覽。
《病毒馴獸師計畫 Tame is to Tame》是與荷蘭鹿特丹的伊拉斯姆斯醫學中心（Erasmus Medical Center）的病毒實驗室科學家Miranda de Graaf合作的作品，曾獲荷蘭2016年生物藝術與設計大獎（BioArt and Design Award）。而《病毒之愛Virophilia》則曾獲阿姆斯特丹藝術基金會駐村計畫3 Package Deal補助，由荷蘭Waag Society、Mediamatic以及阿姆斯特丹自由大學共同輔導。
六月至八月底分別於台灣推出「病毒料理餐」，透過前菜、主餐、甜點與飲品的設計，以藥材模擬病毒身體反應的方式，邀您「將病毒吃下肚」，挑戰病毒的滋味。
飲品體驗區：
為了呼應展場氛圍，這次特別選展義大利GRANDSOLEIL出品的Sedia Gruvyer Trasparente單椅，透明與不規則的有機細胞紋路，讓視覺與坐著都有特別的感受。
吊燈，來自有「20世紀丹麥最具影響力設計師」之名的Verner Panton的FUN系列珍珠貝殼燈，貝殼燈除了在設計意涵上承載著豐厚的海洋生物感官連結，五環層層包覆的透明貝殼，光線從中心至外圍微微的滲透出，加上貝殼隨風搖擺的姿態，讓光是坐在飲品就是一種感官的享受。
並於病毒區選用來自法國Smart & Green LED燈具，散發各式眩目顏色用以呼應病毒的多變性及氛圍。
盲測後的飲品搭配studio lim、路力家器具、質木設計、物、俗器等不同台灣設計品牌的容器，又別有一番容器的滋味。
以味覺探索為核心的策展型體驗店舖品牌，期待藉由味覺盲測的體驗過程，除了讓大家喝下這片土地的風土，也瞭解專業的咖啡師、製茶師、釀酒師等味道工作者，如何透過對原料的認識與判斷，經由製程的加乘轉化，創造令⼈驚喜的滋味，重新理解自己喜歡的味道。
第一波展覽地點：台南市中西區南寧街83巷9號3樓
第二波展覽地點：和明織品文化館．台南市七股區大埕里大埕189號
走味大稻埕 Smell & Drink Dadaocheng ＞
