Southern Taiwan Science Park Archaeological Artifacts Permanent Exhibition - Installation Art "Summoning the Ocean"

The design and production concept of this bamboo raft originates from the contents of "Records of Drifting to Choplan Island, Taiwan in the Third Year of Kyowa (1803)." The book records that a Japanese man named Bunsuke drifted to Choplan (approximately the estuary of the Hsiukuluan River in eastern Taiwan today) in the third year of Kyowa (around 1803 AD) due to a shipwreck. He settled in an Amis tribe village, witnessed their bamboo boats, and later returned to Japan, where he described the bamboo boat's appearance to an artist who drew it. The content describes a bamboo boat about four fathoms long and seven feet wide, with the left, right, rear, and sides all woven from split bamboo, the sail also made of woven bamboo, and a bed plank set up at the stern for cooking meals; it could carry two or three people for fishing. To create a display effect that combines education and art, the installation artworks "Moonlight Migration" and "Drift. Wave" are used. Natural materials create a cross-temporal atmosphere, highlighting the bamboo raft's volume. Through the interplay of light and the artworks and their projections, a sense of fluidity between the bamboo raft and the space is created, summoning the ocean that flowed and surged within the ancestors of the Southern Taiwan Science Park.
Integrated Planning and Design: Hsiao Ch'un-yung Studio / Lin Ch'un-yung
Moonlight Migration
Creators: Chen Shu-yen, Du-wa-ke. Tu-yao
Creation Period: 2015~2016
Introduction:
Life on the east coast often flows and surges between beauty and cruelty, between mountains and the ocean, currents and winds. Nurtured by the salt particles of the vast Pacific, a resilient and fluid vitality gathers and flourishes. It is flight, it is swimming; they each grow uniquely and freely in their own postures, yet together follow an internal rhythm from the earth's body and the ancient tempo of nature, migrating forward towards the direction where the eastern moonlight emerges~ The creative prototype is based on the Sanku fish trap used by the Kavalan people of the east coast to catch fish and shrimp in river valleys, developing into a bamboo and rattan woven container form. It integrates composite materials that are both ancient and modern, such as paper mulberry bark cloth and plant dyes, creating luminous flying boats or migrating fish that glow from within; as well as the free interweaving lines of bamboo strips in dialogue with the lightness of bark membrane, and the flight imagination shaped by bamboo tips and handmade paper.
Drift. Wave
Creator: Huang Wen-yuan
Material: Driftwood
Creation Time: 2020
Introduction:
Whenever typhoons and heavy rain hit Taiwan's mountains, deadwood is always washed down rivers by the water's flow and waves, carried out to sea or stranded on the shore, thus becoming driftwood. The Amis bamboo raft once disappeared into history. Today, based on the流传的口述 accounts of the Japanese, it has been replicated at the Southern Taiwan Science Park Archaeology Museum, reappearing in the world like driftwood washed back ashore from the sea. However, a boat cannot sail without waves. For this reason, we used driftwood, also baptized by waves, to create the surging waves for it to set sail, hoping that the history of Taiwanese archaeology can break through any wave.