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Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni by Chun Ming Wang, Hou ching Lee and Han Wu

Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni by Chun Ming Wang, Hou ching Lee and Han Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award Basi in Acara Competition Category.


BasiAcara· 2024

Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni

by Chun Ming Wang, Hou ching Lee and Han Wu

Client: Lienchiang County Government and The General Association of Chinese Culture

A' Design Award Basi Winner in Acara Category

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The Design

About Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni

Matsu Biennial adolah rancangan cito-cito 10 taun jo 5 bagian untuak mambangun pondasi nan tahan lamo untuak desain sosial. 70 karya seni media campuran dan ciptoan lintas disiplin malului 9 proyek kuratorial manghadopi tantangan pambangungan wilayah nan bakalanjuikan. Terowongan zaman Perang Dingin Matsu, arsip daerah perang, tradisi Eastern Min, arsitektur, dan bahasonyo malibatkan 200 rumah tangga nan majalankan tradisi pambuekan wain, mangilhami tema Ruby Red After Summer. Biennial ko mambubuah seni manjadi ragi untuak mambangkikan suaro-suaro nan tatakan dan manjadikan Matsu sabagai basis seni dan desain.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Basi

Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni adolah pamenang A' Design Award Basi, sabuah pangakuan nan bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan nan elok nan mamanuhi kaparluan profesional jo industri nan dipaokan dari ciptaan nan dirancang jo elok. Pamenang Basi mamparlihatkan kamahiran nan gadang, spesialisasi nan tinggi, pamahaman pakar jo kapasitas kreatif panciptanyo. Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni dipaokan manjadi ciptaan nan sangaik dihormati, dikagumi jo disayangi, nan praktis jo inovatif. Rancangan nan manang Basi iko mamasukkan praktik tabaik industri jo punyo ciri teknis nan cakap nan bapautan jo ilimu jo bakaik. Matsu Biennial 2023 Festival Seni dihormati karano katalitiannyo jo dirancang untuak maningkekkan kualitas hiduik jo mambantu manjadikan dunia tampek nan labiah elok.

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
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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
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Matsu Biennial

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