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Tree Tree Tree Person
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Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part3: Family Matters in the Mountains
太魯閣藝駐計劃IV Part3:山上的家務事
Exhibition Discuss
In the summer 2021, COVID-19 impacted the operation of the society in Taiwan, the lives of the Datong Village and Dali Village in the mountains of Taroko, and the execution of “Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part 2.” After all the known elders in the tribe were verified as having received their second dose, Tree Tree Tree Person resumed the arrangements and residencies of the researchers in the mountains. During one revisit to the tribal community beneath the mountains in October while searching for inspirations for the art residency project, we found Auntie Bnu troubled by the replacement for the balcony extension supports behind her place, which collapsed due to aging. It was in part because of the construction cost as well as the terrible inconvenience and extreme danger with the surviving half of the balcony. Also, we learned that the balcony was in service for over twenty years since she had relocated beneath the mountains. This conversation has been lingering in our minds ever since. We are wondering if we could allocate a portion of the fund of the exhibition at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA) next year (2022) to the family matters of the women in the mountains, can we depict a different labor landscape?

With that, the project invited Bnu Pasang、Yuri Pasang、Simat Qurang、Yaya Huwat、Cumay Hrosi、Tumum Masaw、Yeyku Likaw、Qurug Tumiyu, totally eight tribal women, for collaboration. The production fund for art exhibition is entrusted at their disposal on a condition that they are required to share their thinking in the exhibition at KdMoFA in February as to how they use the fund. Meanwhile, extending the discourse and spirit of Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part 2, the Shakadang Church was invited to this funded exchange project as well.
Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project IV began with Family Tree: Preface produced collectively by nine females in 2020 as its Part 1. In 2022, themed with Family Matters in the Mountains, the Part 3 calls for residency research projects. The housework labor in the mountains during the pandemic shall be brought into focus, extending the imagination for the relationships between nature and art in the traditional arena.
Exhibition Discuss
In the summer 2021, COVID-19 impacted the operation of the society in Taiwan, the lives of the Datong Village and Dali Village in the mountains of Taroko, and the execution of “Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part 2.” After all the known elders in the tribe were verified as having received their second dose, Tree Tree Tree Person resumed the arrangements and residencies of the researchers in the mountains. During one revisit to the tribal community beneath the mountains in October while searching for inspirations for the art residency project, we found Auntie Bnu troubled by the replacement for the balcony extension supports behind her place, which collapsed due to aging. It was in part because of the construction cost as well as the terrible inconvenience and extreme danger with the surviving half of the balcony. Also, we learned that the balcony was in service for over twenty years since she had relocated beneath the mountains. This conversation has been lingering in our minds ever since. We are wondering if we could allocate a portion of the fund of the exhibition at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA) next year (2022) to the family matters of the women in the mountains, can we depict a different labor landscape?

With that, the project invited Bnu Pasang、Yuri Pasang、Simat Qurang、Yaya Huwat、Cumay Hrosi、Tumum Masaw、Yeyku Likaw、Qurug Tumiyu, totally eight tribal women, for collaboration. The production fund for art exhibition is entrusted at their disposal on a condition that they are required to share their thinking in the exhibition at KdMoFA in February as to how they use the fund. Meanwhile, extending the discourse and spirit of Taroko Arts Residency Project IV Part 2, the Shakadang Church was invited to this funded exchange project as well.
Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project IV began with Family Tree: Preface produced collectively by nine females in 2020 as its Part 1. In 2022, themed with Family Matters in the Mountains, the Part 3 calls for residency research projects. The housework labor in the mountains during the pandemic shall be brought into focus, extending the imagination for the relationships between nature and art in the traditional arena.
Team Introduction
Caring for “nature” in art and its derivative paradoxes, Nature Interaction via Residency with Art is the recent project attempted by the project guide CHEN Cheng-Tao, probing curiously into if a fictional curatorial framework can flip certain local identity and distill alternative natural knowledge within the boundary of art. Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project adopts art residency as the exhibition framework, inviting contemporary art workers to engage art residency at Taroko National Park in Hualien. In the real environment where no contemporary art institution exists, the residents of dark village live together with the artists. Amidst the encounters of the residents and the contemporary art community as well as their cross-practices, the project revisit, contemplate, and construct the imagination of human-nature relationships.
Team Introduction
Caring for “nature” in art and its derivative paradoxes, Nature Interaction via Residency with Art is the recent project attempted by the project guide CHEN Cheng-Tao, probing curiously into if a fictional curatorial framework can flip certain local identity and distill alternative natural knowledge within the boundary of art. Tree Tree Tree Person - Taroko Arts Residency Project adopts art residency as the exhibition framework, inviting contemporary art workers to engage art residency at Taroko National Park in Hualien. In the real environment where no contemporary art institution exists, the residents of dark village live together with the artists. Amidst the encounters of the residents and the contemporary art community as well as their cross-practices, the project revisit, contemplate, and construct the imagination of human-nature relationships.
Project co-author
Bnu Pasang
Yuri Pasang
Simat Qurang
Yaya Huwat
Cumey Hrosi
Tumum Masaw
Yeyku Likaw
Qurug Tumiyu
CHEN, Cheng-Tao
Shakadang Church
Project co-author
Bnu Pasang
Yuri Pasang
Simat Qurang
Yaya Huwat
Cumey Hrosi
Tumum Masaw
Yeyku Likaw
Qurug Tumiyu
CHEN, Cheng-Tao
Shakadang Church
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