Red House Suiteáil Ealaíne

Press Kit

Unique Properties

Located in bustling tourist destinations, the city memory corridor features ancient architecture as the main theme to tell visitors about the city's history and culture through huge metal corridors and metal carved picture books. Following the development and changes of the times, many scenery in the city has disappeared. However, as we pass through this huge metal corridor, those pictures in the book that convey the memories of each era will awaken precious images left in the memories of former residents or visitors.

Dimensions & Packaging

5400 mm x 16000 mm x 4500 mm / Materials is Stainless Steel Pipe, High Performance Paints, Computer Controlled LED Lights, Illumination Transducer.

Tags

2024 Taipei Lantern Festival, Taipei Lantern Festival, Red House's Memories, Lighting Art, Performance Art, Installation Art, Exhibition, Event

Production Technology

The metal sheet is laser cut through the conversion of archives, and the overall corridor structure is designed using the structural mechanics method of architecture. By calculating the energy consumption and diffusion angle of LED lights. The interior and exterior are coated with highly protective paint using fluorocarbon baking paint, ultimately making it an art piece that can be displayed and easily maintained for a long time.

Design Challenge

This project is an attempt to understand and interpret the exact history and culture of the centuries through various local organizations and scholars. Due to the size of the work produced, the project had to give up the textual interpretation of these events and scenes and use images that the general public or domestic and foreign travelers can understand. At the same time, Its location was a street with a constant flow of tourists, and the biggest challenge was how to make the artwork and the street become one, and to exhibit the artwork in a harmonious way.

Research

The Red House, a historical building built during the Japanese rule era, is used as the main viewpoint for reading the development of Ximending, so the first metal installation of the Red House, which was built in 1908, is used as the starting point of the tunnel corridor. In total, there are eight sides of the tunnel gallery, each of which is chronologically placed with different images of the development of the Ximending area, telling the story of its own development.

Inspiration

The Lantern Festival is a highly anticipated and celebrated event in Taiwan. With the development of the times, this festival has slowly become one of the most important celebrations in the cities. In a modern city, providing a lively celebration that preserves the historical and cultural essence of the city has become a unique work of art. We use visual graphic installations to achieve this goal, At the same time, the installation can also decorate the streets with colors and increase the brightness of the lighting, and become a business card of the city.

Project Duration

The project started on October 17, 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan and was completed on February 10, 2024. It was exhibited at the 2024 Taipei Lantern Festival on February 17, 2024.

Operation Flow

The art installation visualizes historical and cultural images, constructing an independent three-dimensional space. Through the interaction with people, it enables people to read the relevant history of the city and pass it on to the next generation through storytelling, forming an intangible inheritance of historical and cultural heritage.

Patents

None.

Image Credits

Image #1 to Image #5: Photographer Rex Chu / Creator Chih Liang Liu (Design Director) and Sing Lee (Artist), Red House's Memories, 2024. Main image is Image #1, Optional Image #1 is Image #2, Optional Image #2 is Image #3, Optional Image #3 is Image #4, Optional Image #4 is Image #5.
Video Credits: MP4. For Images in JPG.