2026 Sonic Shaman Music Festival — Crowdfunding and Art Auction Campaign
Campaign runs until 2026.10.31
“Impossible to sum up in a single headline, and you can’t tell what’s going on from the line-up — but everyone who’s been says it’s great.” That’s how one local outlet once described the Sonic Shaman Music Festival. In 2026, Singapore Art Week invited the festival to travel abroad, and the international audience responded with unanimous praise. This time, we’re going one step further: through cutting-edge telematic performance technology, we’ll be running a 30-hour nonstop performance connecting Taipei and Lucerne, Switzerland, in real time. To make this happen, we need your support. Alongside the festival, artists including Lim Giong, Lee Kan Kyo, Su Yu-Hsien, Lee Kit, Lai Chih-Sheng, and the renowned Danish collective SUPERFLEX have generously contributed works for the campaign — an opportunity to collect contemporary art while supporting artists in their ongoing practice.
Starting the afternoon of November 14, from day to night, then into the small hours and on to the following evening — following the earth’s own rhythm — a thirty-hour, nonstop performance. Taiwan and Switzerland will connect live and stage a music festival unlike anything you’ve imagined, weaving together electronic music, experimental sound, dance, and performance art.
This festival is called Sonic Shaman, and it is programmed and produced by TheCube Project Space, a non-profit art organisation with over sixteen years of history. We’ve long committed ourselves to contemporary curatorship and sonic culture, and to building a platform for experimental, boundary-pushing research and presentation of contemporary art.
Everyone who’s been says it’s great
Founded in 2022, Sonic Shaman has, from the start, worked to break the frame of what a “music festival” can be — experimenting with programming, stage design, and combinations of performers no one had tried before. In January 2026, we were invited to Singapore Art Week, and audiences — local and international — responded warmly. The Straits Times named it one of the top three highlights of the week: “Thanks to Sonic Shaman, Tanjong Pagar Distripark became one of the coolest places in town, with many of its performances sold out.”
For the fourth edition, taking place in Taipei on November 14–15, we’re going even further: partnering with the Out in the Loop festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, with technical support from the Immersive Arts Space at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), for an unprecedented transcontinental live telematic performance.
Their endorsement
Hom Yu (Mong Tong): What makes Sonic Shaman genuinely rare is that it doesn’t lean on the size of its line-up to convince you. It leans on the judgment of its programming. It’s willing to place different languages, different scales, even incompatible practices side by side, and let them rub against each other without rushing to reconcile them. This kind of festival is rare anywhere. That it can keep happening in Taiwan, and gradually build outward connections, deserves to be seen and understood by more people.
Summer Lei: Independent art spaces are creating increasingly rare opportunities for people to gather and feel together. At TheCube and at Sonic Shaman, I’ve experienced that kind of exhilarating sonic moment.
Lim Giong: 2022, at the first Sonic Shaman, I was invited to perform in a warehouse. The energy and commitment of the audience and the other young performers really moved me. Experimental music is a narrow road; not many people walk it. That someone is holding open a stage for young artists — that is worth supporting.
Jutoupi: You call it “Sonic Shaman” — with a name that cool, of course I had to play something completely different.
Why “everyone who’s been says it’s great”
Because you can’t see performances like these anywhere else. Not only does the line-up bridge Taiwan and Europe, but artists and musicians here often develop new work specifically for the festival. The venue itself has always been part of the story. Continuing our preference for industrial spaces — from the AUSPIC Paper warehouse, to Tanjong Pagar Distripark in Singapore, to JUT RS289 in Taipei — we go to considerable lengths to bring in professional artist teams to design the multimedia staging, transforming raw industrial environments into fields of sensory immersion.
Why we need your support
A festival with this kind of forward-looking artistic vision naturally costs more than a standard commercial event. Ticket revenue, grants, and corporate sponsorship together keep us only at the break-even edge. This edition brings a new challenge on top of that: a transcontinental, live telematic performance. To make it possible, we’re deploying the Telemersive Gateway system developed at Zurich University of the Arts — a system that enables life-size, ultra-low-latency two-way audiovisual transmission between the two sites. That’s a whole new layer of hardware and technical cost. On top of our own strong technical and design team, we’re also bringing in DuckUnit, currently one of Thailand’s most acclaimed audiovisual design and art collectives, to design the space, lighting, and stage.
In 2024, thanks to our “TheCube 15th Anniversary” campaign, we managed — narrowly — to realise a festival unlike anything we’d done before. This year’s edition is even more ambitious, and needs your material support even more.
How to help Sonic Shaman
You can grab our early-bird full-access passes, or collect Lim Giong’s autographed vinyl, or invest in works by Lee Kan Kyo, Su Yu-Hsien, Lee Kit, Lai Chih-Sheng, and SUPERFLEX. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to start collecting contemporary art while supporting an independent art team, the threshold here is lower than you might think. Every artwork reward comes with an artist-signed Certificate of Authenticity and two Full-Access Passes to the festival.
Rewards & Support Tiers
Support the Cause
Any amount (suggested NT$1,000)
No cap
30-Hour Full-Access Pass ×2
NT$2,550
Limited to 40
30-Hour Full-Access Pass ×4
NT$5,000
Limited to 30
Lim Giong Signed Vinyl + Commemorative Tote
NT$8,000
Limited to 20
Lim Giong’s autographed vinyl Live at Sonic Shaman 2022, plus a commemorative tote bag designed by Lin Guan-Ming. Includes 2 Full-Access Passes to Sonic Shaman.
Lee Kan Kyo, The Last CD (Custom Edition)
NT$25,000
Limited to 10
Lee Kit 8 Drawings
NT$35,000
Limited to 8
Su Yu-Hsien 7 Clay Sculptures with Stereo Photographs
NT$36,000
Limited to 7
SUPERFLEX, Euphoria Now
€1,500
Limited to 6
Lai Chih-Sheng, Soap
NT$150,000
Limited to 5
Featured in Invisible: Art of the Unseen 1957–2012 (Hayward Gallery, London), Lyon Biennale (2015), Aichi Triennale (2016), and Taipei Biennial (2023); works held in the collection of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
SUPERFLEX, Every End is A New Beginning
€16,000
Limited to 5
Thank you for your generous support — we invite you to become a co-creator of this sonic ritual.
FAQ
When will the line-up for this edition be announced?
The line-up will be announced in stages once the curatorial design is finalised, previewed through TheCube’s Instagram and newsletter. In the rare event that individual artists must be replaced, we’ll announce it through our official channels and ensure that the overall scale and quality of the programme are not compromised.
Can the number of artwork editions change?
The edition sizes listed on this page are the ones we commit to. If we need to adjust due to artist production circumstances, we’ll contact supporters directly to offer either a switch to another tier or a full refund.
SUPERFLEX prices are set in euros. Will currency fluctuations affect the NT$ amount?
NT$ amounts on this page are converted at the launch-day exchange rate and locked for the duration of the campaign — they don’t fluctuate.
What if I just want to buy a single ticket?
The pass allocation for this campaign is reserved separately from public sales and doesn’t affect general ticket availability. If you only need one ticket, buying it through our regular ticketing channel is simpler.
How do I choose which piece to collect?
Every piece is unique, so you’ll need to make a choice when ordering. For Lee Kit’s eight drawings and Su Yu-Hsien’s seven clay sculptures, please indicate your first and second preferences at checkout. We’ll pair supporters on a first-come-first-served basis and email you to confirm which piece you’ve collected. Pieces already claimed will be marked in real time on this page and on the artist’s work page. Lai Chih-Sheng’s five soap works only begin production after the campaign closes; the same first-come-first-served allocation applies, and we’ll be in touch once each piece is complete.