Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival door BIAS Architects and Associates

Het ontwerp Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival door BIAS Architects and Associates is een hoog aangeschreven winnaar van de zeer prestigieuze 2021 A' Design Award in Zilver in de competitiecategorie Evenement en Happening Ontwerp.

ZilverEvenement· 2021

Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival

door BIAS Architects and Associates

Opdrachtgever: Taoyuan City Government, Department of Cultural Affairs, & Daxi Ecomuseum

Winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver in de categorie Evenement

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Het Ontwerp

Over Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival

Sinds 2018 heeft BIAS een stadsfestival ontwikkeld en geïmplementeerd om de gemeente Daxi te helpen bij de voorbereiding op de belangrijkste religieuze ceremonie van de plaats. Meestal zijn Taiwanese ceremonies conservatief en gebaseerd op landelijke tradities die een strikte reeks regels voorschrijven. Om de charme van volksovertuigingen met het stedelijke publiek te delen, heeft BIAS de tradities bemiddeld door een strategische reeks ontwerpinterventies en activiteiten die het evenement een popcultuurgevoel geven. BIAS trad in het bijzonder op als curator en nodigde diverse jonge kunstenaars en ontwerpers uit om samen te werken met degenen die oude tradities in stand houden.

De Erkenning

Over de A' Design Award in Zilver

Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Zilver, een buitengewoon prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan topontwerpen die prachtig en indrukwekkend zijn. Winnaars in Zilver zijn enorm briljante en uiterst creatieve werken die de uitmuntende expertise, het talent en de scherpzinnigheid van hun ontwerpers illustreren. Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival wordt verwacht een prachtig paradepaardje te zijn dat opmerkelijk professioneel en diepgaand innovatief is. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Zilver heeft gewonnen, is een hoogst opmerkelijke, bewonderde uitvinding die baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. Daxi Daxi Lokaal Cultuurfestival is een zeer benijde creatie die verlangens oproept, positieve gevoelens brengt en verbazing en verwondering doet ontvlammen.

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Credits, teamleden en technische details verstrekt door de ontwerper.

Unieke Eigenschappen: 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.
Afmetingen & Verpakking: Total event area: 121,000 sqm
Tags: festival, traditional rural culture, urban pop culture, religion, parade, design as mediation, curating
Productietechnologie: 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.
Ontwerpuitdaging: 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.
Onderzoek: 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.
Inspiratie: 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.
Projectduur: 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.
Werkproces: 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.
Teamleden: Main Curator: BIAS Architects & Associates
Beeldcredits: 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