Strolling in the Park—Forest mountains, Peacocks and Re-nature
The theme “Re-connecting and re-directing” of Chiayi Art Museum “+1 Art Base Program” calls for projects of contemporary art, experimental works, performances or presentations, in creating site-specific art while in residency in Chiayi. The program hopes to transform its urban texture, life and characteristics into works or presentations, organizing, activating and overturning the art and humanistic spirit of Chiayi, allowing cross-disciplinary artistic thinking to converge and collide, and enable abundance and diversity to Chiayi’s art ecology and cultural resources.
Chiu Yong - Jin
Landscape outlined at an altitude of 2,216 m
In residence at the Chiayi Art Museum “+1 Art Base” with the “Mapping project,” Chiu Yong-Jin explores the geographical context and natural landscape of Chiayi over the course of a century, contemplating the stimulation provided by the local landscape while organizing the convergence and loss of such an urban townscape.
Is the landscape natural? The Alisan Forest Railway departs from the center of Chiayi City, its railway carriage climbing in altitude from station to station, passing through suburban forests, tea fields, and betel trees. An endless vista of mountain ridges becomes an economic industry for local livelihood over time and space. Like a beautiful landscape, it is also a “real landscape” that cannot be ignored. Such a real texture manifests relations between humanity and nature, intertwined with evolutions of business cycles, and its effects on the development of a city.
Tsai Pou-Ching
Exotic Bird Garden Project
The “Exotic Bird Garden Project” is inspired by Tsai Pou-Ching’s childhood memories of the numerous exotic bird gardens and strange animal parks throughout Taiwan. With changing times, almost all these enclosures have been dismantled, the disappearance of these formerly beloved animals rarely documented.
This residency project starts off with the most widely kept peacock at the time. Through workshops, memory paths are formed, outlining and reimagining the exotic bird garden, and exploring the relationship between mankind and captive animals.