Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art by Chun Ming Wang, Hou ching Lee and Han Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Ferro in Disseny d'Esdeveniments i Actes Competition Category.
FerroEsdeveniment· 2024
Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art
by Chun Ming Wang, Hou ching Lee and Han Wu
Client: Lienchiang County Government and The General Association of Chinese Culture
A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Esdeveniment Category
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The Design
About Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art
La Biennal de Matsu és un pla aspiracional de 10 anys en 5 parts per proporcionar fonaments duradors per al disseny social. Les seves 70 obres d'art de tècniques mixtes i creació interdisciplinària a través de 9 projectes curatorals afronten els reptes del desenvolupament regional sostenible. Els túnels de l'era de la Guerra Freda de Matsu, els arxius de zones de guerra, la tradició Min Oriental, l'arquitectura i la llengua, amb 200 llars que practiquen la tradició vinícola, inspiren el tema Vermell Rubí Després de l'Estiu. La Biennal transforma l'art en el llevat que fa sorgir les veus suprimides i converteix Matsu en una base per a l'art i el disseny.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Ferro
Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro, un reconeixement prestigiós concedit a bons dissenys que compleixen els requisits professionals i industrials esperats de creacions ben dissenyades. Els guanyadors de Ferro demostren una gran habilitat, una alta especialització, una comprensió experta i la capacitat creativa dels seus creadors. Es preveu que Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art sigui una creació molt apreciada, admirada i estimada que és pràctica i innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro integra les millors pràctiques del sector i té característiques tècniques competents lligades al coneixement i al talent. Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival d'Art és respectat per la seva minuciositat i està pensat per oferir millores en la qualitat de vida que ajuden a fer del món un lloc millor.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Matsu Biennial restores the suppressed voices and self-evident culture of Matsu's unique Cold-War heritage and war zone administration period. Unlike typical art festivals, the Biennial is a 10-year project across 5 planned biennials to involve experts and provide integrated design solutions.
Cultural governance and design thinking are made part of policymaking to advance art and education. The Biennial is a long-term cultural movement through site translation, cultural tours, and co-creation. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Exhibition grounds spanning the 4 townships and 5 islands of Matsu under a framework of 9 curatorial projects, comprised of 70 works spanning 4 areas of art design, landscape architecture, culinary art, and performance. Exhibition venues across a range of public spaces such as beaches, strategic intersections, plazas, military sites, private houses, cafes, and museums. 12 co-curators and 80 artist groups, including 13 local artists and 7 visiting artists from 5 countries.
- Tags
- Matsu Biennial, art festival, cultural heritage, Cold War, public branding, community design, social design, design education
- Production Technology
- Based on past studies of Matsu's military and cultural heritage, the Biennial invites locals and experts to co-create 70 works across 9 curation projects of architecture, art, food, and performance. Crossing contemporary mediums with traditional arts, it connects and revitalizes local traditions. Highlights include Underwater Lab and The Island Scene, featuring technology art, video, sculpture, traditional papercutting art, and military site installations, creating key landscapes on the island.
- Design Challenge
- The goal of the Biennial is to revive tangible/intangible heritage. Winemaking became the theme to resonate culturally and military sites have been revitalized. The challenge is to instill cultural identification locally, preserving and innovating with experts to increase local participation and communications by social design. As a cultural movement, the Biennial engages with residents, delivering posters to 3800 households and embedding its processes in art curriculums and development workshops.
- Research
- The Matsu Biennial 2023 is based on past surveys of local heritage. Its theme Ruby Red After Summer honors the tradition of winemaking in Matsu to "ferment art". In 2007, a comprehensive survey of the islands recorded 146 military installations. In 2019, 13 military sites were selected for revitalization studies. Surveys on local contexts, archives, and interviews collected local issues and cultural highlights of Matsu’s sites including crafts, and food, forming the basis for the Biennial.
- Inspiration
- UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity considers cultural diversity as legacy, promoting peace through dialog. Villages and towns nowadays host large-scale art festivals to revitalize local industries and culture, driving local participation and bolstering the regional brand. Accordingly, Matsu Biennial adopts the core concept of "social design", creating public branding for sustainable governance and using art curation to highlight the significance of Matsu's Cold-War heritage.
- Project Duration
- The 2nd Matsu Biennial "Ruby Red After Summer" opens from Sept. 23 to Nov. 12,2023 at the 4 townships and 5 islands of Matsu. In 2007, a comprehensive survey of Matsu's local heritage and cultural landscape was initiated. In 2019, planning for the 1st Matsu Biennial started, and in 2020, a stronghold redesign campaign movement was launched, leading up to the opening of 2 military sites for the 2nd Matsu Biennial.
- Operation Flow
- Addressing issues through social design, the Biennial adopts 5 principal designs of engagement—creating dialogue with the community and developing local characteristics; sustainability—design with a 10-year vision; planning—continued concern for society through art practice; spatial governance—design on the scale of architectural contexts; and culture—design to transform organizational cultures and create an environment conducive to art and design.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Matsu Biennial
- Team Members
- Co-organizers: Chung-Ming Wang, Hou-ching Lee, Jing-hui Huang, Xiao-Yun Wu
Marketing Coordinator: Ayu Cheng
Chief of Operations: Hui-Ting Liu
Curatorial team: Lee Ro-Mei, Chao Kai-Chih, Eric Chen, Eva Lin, Chang Cheng-Yu, Chang Kuang-Yi, Nakaw Putun, Han Wu, Hung Yu-Cheng, Ella Jheng, Liu Mei-Yu, Tammy Yu-Ting Hsieh, Pilar Tsai, Li-Wei Hou, Liting Liu, Hsieh Shu-Ching, Wang Shih-Yu, Wilma Ku, Yu-Zheng Ye - Image Credits
- Matsu Biennial
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