04/11/2023
Kaohsiung, as an international harbor city that started out as an industrial city, has been organizing the Kaohsiung International Steel Sculpture Festival with steel as the material and sculpture as the technique once every two years since 2002, and it has been spanning two decades, not only the festival itself, but also the city of Kaohsiung has changed considerably.
"Made in Kaohsiung" refers to the distribution, import, export, and production of materials, and it also links up the rise and fall of industries, stories of people, and changes in the landscape that arise from materials.
The 10th Kaohsiung International Steel Sculpture Festival is a rite of passage for the public to not only experience the firepower and shock of large-scale steel sculptures created on-site, but also use contemporary sculptures to break the mindset of "steel sculpture" as a means of creation. And for the first time, to introduce them into indoor thematic exhibitions, providing the public with a more diversified understanding of steel and metal, as well as a way of contemplating on their own daily lives.
Design and art have joined forces in the festival to respond to Kaohsiung, a city of manufacturing and creation, through a short history of the industrial memory, intertwining the process and imagination of steel.
22 groups of works that span the spectrum of art and design liberate the international cultural exchanges that have been imprisoned by the pandemic and present an all-compassing view of Kaohsiung’s metal fabrication, factory soundscapes, laborer stories, and industrial cityscapes.
Manufacturing, the all-encompassing industrial landscape of the steel industry; creation, the new vision of steel art that is both strong and soft.
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everything is connected
高雄製造中
2023年第十屆高雄國際鋼雕藝術節,以「everything is connected — 高雄製造中」為題,邀集台灣及國際共22組創作者共襄盛舉,展區分成六區,分別為:
Ⓐ 提煉•真實|事物的本質、就地取材
Ⓑ 塑形•生活|生活觀察、探索,從土地生長而出
Ⓒ 年表•傳承|高雄製造中的工業記憶
Ⓓ 敘述•轉移|將材質化為影像,將製造以聲響呈現
Ⓔ 推測•未來|多元、自由、製造實驗室
Ⓕ 再生•重組|戶外現地創作營
六個展區,環顧鋼鐵諸如材質、產業、地景、人文與高雄之間的關係;
六個展區,如同煉鋼的過程,採礦、選礦、燒結、鑄型、成品、再生。
#採集 #提煉 #塑形 #創造 #未來 #發現 #探索 #創新
策展團隊:東海醫院設計工作室 徐景亭、走路草農/藝團
影像提供:駁二藝術特區、沿岸製作