Exposition ‘Exploring Tainan Crafts’ by Dutch designers Lilian van Stekelenburg and Gerard Jasperse - Public.
This May 10th, the expo 'Exploring Tainan Crafts' by Dutch designers Lilian van Stekelenburg and Gerard Jasperse opened at Tainan 321 Artist Village (台南321藝術聚落). Both Dutch designers collaborated with local traditional crafts, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Culture and Creativity Incubation and R&D Center (CCIRDC - 成大文創育成與研發中心).
Tainan deserves to be called 'Culture Capital of Taiwan' and the traditional crafts are a great contributor to this. However, how do the crafts compete in the modern world with low cost mass manufacturing? Many crafts are slowly disappearing, which is a cultural loss. This is why Dutch designers Lilian van Stekelenburg and Gerard Jasperse came to Tainan for two months to explore and boost the appreciation of the crafts.
Both had their own approach, style and outcome. Lilian van Stekelenburg (Lily66) fell in love with crafts working with temple religion and asked Taiwanese people what could be the value of this today. In her exposition she presents her conclusion: a new goddess who stands for one of the biggest future threats, she worked out the story of the Goddess of Sustainability (永續金娘).
Gerard Jasperse picked up the shared history between The Netherlands and Taiwan, in which the Dutch created the first city in Taiwan almost 400 years ago. Stories on this still run in folklore and traditional puppetry, but he noticed the traditional and modern impression on Dutch are quite different nowadays. He filled in this gap by recreating Chinese and Dutch puppetry with the cultural crafts.
The two Dutch designers stayed at the Dutch Design Post, which is an initiative from NCKU visiting expert Bart van Bueren. Here collaborations are set up between Dutch Designers and Tainan, NCKU and CCIRDC. One of the CCIRDC companies is Planett, who facilitated between the Dutch and crafts. The exposition will run from May 10th until June 12th and is made possible through the Dutch grand 'Creative Industries Fund NL' and various sources from Taiwan. Later this year the exposition will be displayed on the World Design Capital 2016 Taipei, and the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Tainan deserves to be called 'Culture Capital of Taiwan' and the traditional crafts are a great contributor to this. However, how do the crafts compete in the modern world with low cost mass manufacturing? Many crafts are slowly disappearing, which is a cultural loss. This is why Dutch designers Lilian van Stekelenburg and Gerard Jasperse came to Tainan for two months to explore and boost the appreciation of the crafts.
Both had their own approach, style and outcome. Lilian van Stekelenburg (Lily66) fell in love with crafts working with temple religion and asked Taiwanese people what could be the value of this today. In her exposition she presents her conclusion: a new goddess who stands for one of the biggest future threats, she worked out the story of the Goddess of Sustainability (永續金娘).
Gerard Jasperse picked up the shared history between The Netherlands and Taiwan, in which the Dutch created the first city in Taiwan almost 400 years ago. Stories on this still run in folklore and traditional puppetry, but he noticed the traditional and modern impression on Dutch are quite different nowadays. He filled in this gap by recreating Chinese and Dutch puppetry with the cultural crafts.
The two Dutch designers stayed at the Dutch Design Post, which is an initiative from NCKU visiting expert Bart van Bueren. Here collaborations are set up between Dutch Designers and Tainan, NCKU and CCIRDC. One of the CCIRDC companies is Planett, who facilitated between the Dutch and crafts. The exposition will run from May 10th until June 12th and is made possible through the Dutch grand 'Creative Industries Fund NL' and various sources from Taiwan. Later this year the exposition will be displayed on the World Design Capital 2016 Taipei, and the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
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