Arian Digwyddiad · 2021
Daxi Daxi Gŵyl Ddiwylliant Lleol
by BIAS Architects and Associates
- Gwobr Arian A' Design Award 2021 in Digwyddiad
- CLIENT: Taoyuan City Government, Department of Cultural Affairs, & Daxi Ecomuseum
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,374
- Verification code 1BFABDCACA · Verify this award
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About Daxi Daxi Gŵyl Ddiwylliant Lleol
Ers 2018, mae BIAS wedi datblygu a gweithredu gŵyl drefol i helpu trefgordd Daxi i baratoi ar gyfer seremoni grefyddol allweddol y lle. Fel arfer, mae seremonïau Taiwan yn geidwadol ac yn seiliedig ar draddodiadau gwledig sy'n pennu set gaeth o reolau. Er mwyn rhannu swyn credoau gwerin gyda'r cyhoedd trefol, cyfryngodd BIAS y traddodiadau trwy set strategol o ymyriadau dylunio a gweithgareddau sy'n darparu naws diwylliant pop i'r digwyddiad. Yn benodol, gweithredodd BIAS fel curadur a gwahodd amrywiol artistiaid a dylunwyr ifanc i gydweithio â'r rhai sy'n cadw hen draddodiadau.
About the Gwobr Arian A' Design Award
Mae Daxi Daxi Gŵyl Ddiwylliant Lleol yn enillydd Gwobr Arian A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau o'r radd uchaf, hardd a thrawiadol. Mae enillwyr Arian yn weithiau tra disglair a hynod greadigol sydd yn darlunio arbenigedd, dawn a chraffter rhagorol eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i Daxi Daxi Gŵyl Ddiwylliant Lleol fod yn waith gwych ac esiampl, yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac yn ddwfn arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Arian A' Design Award yn ddyfais hynod nodedig a edmygir sydd yn elwa ac yn symud ymlaen ffiniau celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg. Mae Daxi Daxi Gŵyl Ddiwylliant Lleol yn greadigaeth y cenfigennir wrthi yn eang, sydd yn deffro dyheadau, yn cyflwyno teimladau cadarnhaol ac yn cynnau rhyfeddod a syndod.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Lord Guan's birthday celebration is an important traditional event held in the rural outskirts of Taipei. The local people call it "the second Chinese New Year for Daxi," and everyone in the township of Daxi uses to put significant effort into the preparations. Tasked to preserve and promote the event, since 2018, BIAS has developed and implemented an urban festival to help the township preparing for the celebration. The festival has been named "Daxi Daxi," i.e., a play of words that means "Good Luck Daxi." In particular, in 2020, the third installment of "Daxi Daxi," the "Lord Guan Online" concept was implemented, i.e., a creative offline and online approach that 'allows the god's blessings to spread far away' through the new media. This festival strengthened the local community's identity, but the last installment attracted more than 100,000 people to the township. Besides this, an exhibition focused on the "backstage" of the religious event and a show mixing modern and traditional arts were implemented. By this, BIAS hopes that the traditional culture can intertwine with the urban one and, thanks to this, get enough momentum to be preserved for the future.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Total event area: 121,000 sqm
- Tags
- festival, traditional rural culture, urban pop culture, religion, parade, design as mediation, curating
- Production Technology
- The main concept of Daxi Daxi is to combine traditions and pop culture so as to both rejuvenate the audience of Taiwanese religious festivals and deepen the understanding of these by the young generations. In order to achieve this, a curatorial approach was adopted, focused on selecting a series of young artists and designers that could cooperate with those holding the traditions. Most importantly, the artists, designers, and the holders of traditions were supported by BIAS that mediated their cooperation so as to ease their efforts and bring it to a good end. That is to say, BIAS initiated their encounter and acted as a facilitator and translator of their different point of view.
- Design Challenge
- The key challenge of the project was at the curatorial level. In particular, it was the selection of third-party artists and designers that could dialogue with those today bringing forward the ancient traditions. Not only but also, it was to create proper occasions for the encounter of these seemingly opposite actors.
- Research
- The research was developed on various aspects, including the following. First of all, it was developed a deep understanding of ancient rituals and those people that carry on the traditions today. Then, it was developed curatorial research on a set of artists and designers that could develop a dialogue and thus intervene in the strategic renewal of traditions. Finally, mediatory research was implemented in order to help the community and the designers collaborate for the good end.
- Inspiration
- Usually, Taiwanese religious ceremonies are conservative and based on rural traditions that strictly dictate parade rules. To share the charm of the folk beliefs with the urban public, BIAS tried to mediate the ancient traditions by a strategic set of design interventions and educational activities that could provide a contemporary pop culture vibe to the festival.
- Project Duration
- The event starts in mid-July and finishes in mid-August each year since 2018 in Daxi, Taiwan. The last installment was held in 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The key aspects of the festival are to be found in the mixing of various aspects of the traditional parade rules and preparations with popo-culture and aesthetics. In particular, while the traditional aspects were not obliterated or negated in their functionality, touches of a new aesthetics were added and communicated to the large public as the product of a new pride of the local community.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Yu Dong, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Yu Dong, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Yu Dong, 2018
Image #5: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2018
