But Weiwuying isn’t a venue you need a ticket to enjoy. The Banyan Plaza, at street level, is open 24 hours a day. It hosts public yoga sessions, movie nights and busking events. Visitors can picnic in the park. It’s a centre for the arts, but it’s also intended as a centre for the people.

Blue skies accompanied me along the light rail tracks to the harbourside Pier-2 Art Centre, which is made up of graffiti-strewn buildings. For the most part, the 25 former warehouses of the Taiwan Sugar Company are now shops, cafes and exhibition spaces, with the addition of a cinema, a music venue and a railway museum.

They also house art studios, and during my visit two artists were at the tail end of their three-month residencies. One of them, Mina Nasr, is from Cairo and reinterprets the cultural identity of cities in his installations. With A Possible Environment, he reimagines the future of Kaohsiung, using blocks and cones to represent a cityscape.

‘It surprised me to see how Kaohsiung is super developed and that it accepts all differences,’ he says. It was important for Nasr to immerse himself in the local environment and culture. ‘We don’t need to be in the capital city; I’m here to discover something else. Smaller cities have the potential to grow.’