DATE : 2009/11/21 ~2010/01/03
The International Container Arts Festival was first held in 2001, and has been held once every two years since that time. The container arts festival has now become a major cultural event in Kaohsiung City. Each work of container bears witness to the role of shipping in the advance of civilization in Kaohsiung over the most recent decade. Thanks to the artists' versatile talents, each empty container is transformed from nothing to something, and the rust-filled, warped waste containers are neatened up and reused as unimaginably creative art. Apart from promoting the real environmental benefit of recycling, the use of scrap cargo containers as an artistic medium also invokes an even more important idea: That people can pursue spiritual fulfillment even in real, everyday life. This is the theme of this year's container arts festival, and we encourage the artists to transform each container into the prototype of an "ideal city."
The theme of the 2009 Container Arts Festival is "Ideas for an Ideal City." Together with external surface finishes or internal interactive installations, containers can allow outstanding domestic and foreign contemporary artists to exercise their artistic talents, and give visitors an imaginable blueprint of the ideal city through the internal or external design of a container. The artists can paint their containers or install devices in order to create micro innovative architectural spaces or entertainment or living models.
Because containers are both mysterious and open, it is expected that this exhibition will enable visitors to appreciate the artists' subtlety, humor, and deeply meaningful ideas, and help them overcome their impressions of the containers' coldness and threatening bulk, giving them more room in which to exercise their imaginations. We also hope that the container arts festival will reveal the boundless maritime charm of Kaohsiung – this great port city of the island nation of Taiwan.
Source and Photo courtesy of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts(高雄市立美術館)
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