Living Metaphor﹒Living Museum Series II A Collection of Wen-Shu Lai’s Art Installations: Encountering/ Foreseeing the Sixth Fuel Factory

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Publication Date｜2022-06-01

Authors｜Wen-Shu LAI

Press｜National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press

ISBN｜9789865470319

Synopsis

Book title: Living Metaphor﹒Living Museum Series II

A Collection of Wen-Shu Lai’s Art Installations: Encountering/ Foreseeing the Sixth Fuel Factory

Author: Wen-Shu LAI

Translator: Sheng-chih WANG

ISBN: 9789865470319

 

Introduction

A trilogy unfolded by memories, plants and maps adds layers of artistic practices on the texture of the Sixth Fuel Hsinchu

Wen-Shu LAI, the Associate Professor of Applied Arts at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, has executed the project of "Big Chimney Base," the Good Neighborliness Residency Project of the Sixth Fuel Hsinchu, for more than three years since 2018. She points out that Hsinchu is a city with WWII experience and needs a group of citizens with reflecting, critical and practicing abilities to preserve, revitalize and nurture the city. Encountering/Foreseeing the Sixth Fuel Factory: Solo Art Installations by Wen-Shu Lai exhibited under the big chimney was the concrete practice of the action.

　　

　　Encountering/Foreseeing the Sixth Fuel Factory is a journey for lives to coverage again. The path to the chimney like the umbilical cord connecting the mother and child is a construction intending to open up the living metaphors and history of the Sixth Fuel Factory through artistic action. By gradually unfolding the path at a trilogy-like pace with memories, plants, and maps, art practices are endowed to the texture of the Sixth Fuel Factory. The multiple deployment intertwining and penetrating one another intertextually extends the plates of the Sixth Fuel Factory in personal life. Seven exhibited works are the creases of life when individuals encounter history and memories. However, these life creases are not so much personal as collective. They are the crystal of historical memories when people assemble and are our dedication to the big chimney.

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