[Thursday Arts & Culture]Winners of MoCA X site Landscape Installation Project Announced; Exhibition to Open in Late March

Written/Compiled & Reported by MOOK Travel Life Net’s Chen Guan-Xin

 

The “X site” landscape installation project, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, has announced the results of its first edition in 2014. The winning team, “Chen Xuan-Cheng + Jen Da-Hsien + SFO Architecture (C.J.S Architecture-Art Studio),” triumphed with their work “Marginal Landscape.” The team consists of architect Chen Xuan-Cheng, artist Jen Da-Hsien, and architect SFO. The “Marginal Landscape” architectural installation is scheduled to be exhibited from March 29 to June 29 this year at the plaza in front of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In alignment with the installation’s design, materials, and the artistic atmosphere it creates, it will form a public space unlike any other for community engagement — not just a new form of artistic expression, but also a catalyst for expanding the possibilities of urban life.

In their artist statement for the 2014 “X site” work “Marginal Landscape,” the artists explained how they interpreted the site through various coordinate systems, reflecting on three types of “marginality”: “spatial marginality,” referring to the shape and scale of the spatial edge created where the museum’s entrance plaza relates to the main building, urban roads, and surrounding environment; “marginality of the art field,” considering how, compared to the sequential exhibition spaces inside the museum hall, the entrance plaza highlights its role as an edge where art takes place; and “marginality of bodily sensation,” which explores how the routes to the museum involve complex bodily experiences — such as the speed of elevated highways or the continuity of natural landscapes. If the entrance plaza is meant to act as an intermediary space that transforms the surroundings, the body may still struggle to find a corresponding coordinate within the large-scale plaza, resulting in a sense of lost bodily orientation. Therefore, the proposed work “Marginal Landscape” is not merely a visual object, but an attempt to construct a stratified sensory experience within this “marginal” space at the museum’s entrance plaza — establishing a reoriented system of bodily coordinates. Within this system, human sensations such as sight, touch, and hearing will be rearranged to produce a creative bodily experience.

 

The form concept of “Marginal Landscape” utilizes a 1:1 scale equivalent to the size of the museum’s main hall, creating a connection between the landscape and the building. While both share a matrix-like aesthetic that is highly rational, the experience of moving through “Marginal Landscape” is entirely different from moving inside the museum. Winding through a space woven like a bamboo forest offers numerous opportunities for playful light projections, while also engaging with the flowing air, sounds, and tactile sensations — crafting an experience that visitors can joyfully share with others.

 

The main elements of the installation include bamboo scaffolding, canvas, and linear metal handrails. The primary structure uses moisture-rich green bamboo (Mengzong bamboo), continuing Taiwan’s traditional construction system of “bamboo scaffolding.” This approach not only employs locally rooted materials and techniques but is also environmentally friendly and structurally flexible. The top of the installation is covered with canvas, addressing drainage and shading needs, while the planar fabric and linear bamboo create diverse shadow patterns under sunlight. A red linear handrail runs from outside the installation, links through it, and serves as a safety feature for visitors — it is also an element that shapes spatial perception. “Marginal Landscape” appears as a grove of Mengzong bamboo visible from Zhongshan North Road overlooking the museum plaza. Over the next three months of the exhibition, the natural aging process of the bamboo — shifting from green to yellow — will document the landscape transformed by time, engaging in a temporal dialogue with the surrounding environment and scenery.

 

 

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