Swaying Borders 2022
The exhibition "Swaying Borders" is based on the Hualien City Office project "Art Fun 762 mm – Hualien Port and Streets in the Past and Present". Through sorting the historical contents of the Hualien port area, bird stepping stone fishing village and the old port line, the space today is reflected the overlapping layers of different times; it expands the creative connection of art. The exhibition is trying to allow the audience to touch and imagine many different changing environments and lives.
The exhibition name "Swaying Borders" reflects the busy and disappearing of the port line, the period before and after the construction of Hualien Port, the coastlines change over the years. With a wavering, vague and obvious posture, it lets the visible and hidden lines be densely overlaid to form an unstable and rich appearance.
The document exhibit in Room A, No. 25, are collections of old photographs, recorded interviews and other documents from the fieldwork. They are along three axes: the first is the period before and after the construction of Hualien Port; the second is the old port line, the drivers and station attendants who have worked for decades on the various trains on this line; the third axis is the residents who were born, grew up, and moved out in the bird stepping stone fishing village, and still live in nearby Meilun.
The changes in the natural environment and the traces of human life exist in different time and space; imagination shuttles between the artistic creation and many clues of cultural-historical fieldwork. Therefore, this exhibition invites three artists' artwork, which directly or indirectly reveal a number of connections to echo the content of this place.
WANG Yu-Ting's work "IF it is an island" explores the relationship between islands, migration and survival. Some of the contents were taken from the interview images of bird stepping stone fishermen. Through 3D image modeling, a thought-provoking multi-channel video work was created meticulously between image variation and narrative expression.
"Message from the Bottle"¬¬¬ is an art project by LEE Jo-Mei that began in 2010. Facing the ocean between Taiwan and Yonaguni, it opens a romantic fictional story comes from a letter in a bottle drifting across the sea. It is the 40th year since Hualien City and Yonaguni became sister cities, and one can't help but imagine the other side of the sea, which is close but not easily accessible.
Visitors are welcome to sit or lie down in the comfortable Japanese-style space. The work "Listening Pores: stone" by Iris Chun-Tzu Chang transmits the tiny sounds from the objects. The sounds come from the sea of Hualien, the wind between the cracks of the rocks..., it constructs a rich imaginative listening space and opens an immersive sound experience.
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Date: 2022.09.08(Thu)-10.10(Mon), Every Tuesday - Sunday 12:00-18:00, (10 Oct. Open)
Venue: No. 23, No. 25, Ln. 8, Jieshou 2nd St., Hualien City, Hualien County, 970019, Taiwan.
Artists:
WANG Yu-Ting / IF it is an island
LEE Jo-Mei / Message from the Bottle
Iris Chun-Tzu Chang / listening pores: ()
Planning Executive: HSIN Pei-Chin, CHIU Chin-Chung
Visual Design: HONG Zi-Xuan
Translator: HSIN Pei-Chin
Exhibition Coordinator: YUN Zih-Chi, TSAI Cheng-Hsiu, KUO Lu-Ling
Participating Cultural and Historical Worker: YEH, Po-Chiang
Provide: Documentary and historical materials, Old photos, Oral Stories
Interviewees of Recorded and Interviews:
Residents of Bird Stepping Stone Fishing Village: Bauki Angaw, PAN Chaochin, PAN Jinlong
Old Port Line: TIAN Yusheng, CHEN Lin, LAI CHIN-YUAN, XIAO Guofeng and XIE Shengming
Provide Audiobook of Bird Stepping Stone and Related Materials:
Teachers and Students of Gifted Class, Yi-Chang Primary School Hualien County
Book Loan Display: CHIU Chin-Chung
Directing Unit: Ministry of Culture
Organizer: Hualien City Office
Curatorial Unit: Nordkapp Studio
Cooperative units: Minsheng Community Development Association, 762 Bookstore, Hualien Living Room, Hualien County Railway Retirees Association