Fish Trap house IV Houli
FISH TRAP HOUSE IV HOULI
Cheng Tsung Feng
ORGANIZER
Taichung City Government
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Tony Chang
PROJECT DESIGNER
YU Cheng Shen, David Hsu, Si Ray Chen
ADVISER
Ministry of Transportation and Communications
EXECUTIVE UNIT
Agriculture Bureau of Taichung City Government
COORDINATOR
Yu-Xuan LAI (Ding Yong Culture Creativity Co., Ltd)
PROJECT MANAGER
Wan-ting Chang, Jia Jhen Huang
CURATOR
Min SU (Netizen Productions)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Chia Chi Chien (Love2fruit)
DESIGN ASSISTANT
Ming Yu Hsieh, Hsuan Hsuan Wu
PROJECT ADVISOR
Wei-Zhen Zhang
VISUAL DESIGN
Yu-Hsuan Liao
MARKETING PR
Yu Yu Chou
STRUCTURE ADVISOR
Yumu Manufacture & Research (Chien Tung CHEN)
LIGHTING DESIGN
Oude Light: OuDe light (Yi Zhang CHEN, Jian Guo HE)
CO WORKING PARTNER
Farmers' association of Taichung, Farmers' association of Waipu, Farmers' association of Taiping, Farmers' association of Qinshui
Text description provided by architect.
Artist Cheng Tsung FENG applies Taiwanese traditional fish traps as the theme of artwork.
Invited hundreds of local in Taichung to workshops to learn weaving the art craft of the fish trap. With them hundreds of fish trap was made and hang bamboo sign with their wishes on it.
People surround hand by hand unite together. Rewrite the precious art craft which is going to vanish into our memory and body.
Recently, Cheng Tsung FENG was invited to create a lantern in the most fabulous event - Taiwan Lantern Festival. He began a huge collective work plan for this two-week celebration.
During the processing, FENG and his partners drove a truck and went to four farmers' associations in the festival’s location, Taichung
He found out hundreds of inhabitants who didn’t have any experience for basket weaving. FENG taught them how to weave basket with bamboo and shared the story behind the traditional fish traps.
They finished over two-hundred basket units and bring these units together in the location. Finally, it became a grand installation art in public.
After the end of the festival, this grand installation art work carefully unpicked and took back to their maker by truck. Each basket unit has their own tag which is written down the wish of maker.
These basket weaving item and invisible craft skills will keep Integrate into their lives. This exposure sparks new ideas and possibilities.
Those traditional craft lesson became into their own personal experience. It inspired those inhabitants in farmers' associations to make something new. A number of people said they would make a lampshade, others would make duck cages, and the others would pile up like a Christmas tree with this bamboo basket units.
Cheng Tsung FENG led and teach people making fish trap hand by hand. People reunite together as each unit gathering in site. Expect body experience, there’s no text record to preserve those precious handmade culture. By this collective work plan, FENG write down these craft originate from Taiwan into our memory. Keep those ancient treasure live in our body for eternity.
