To welcome the 518 International Museum Day, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Taichung City Government held a symposium "Fiber Creation Lecture: Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Traditional Crafts" at the Taichung Fiber Craft Museum today (18th), inviting curator Wu Shanglin and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Mayor Chen Kuanyi, artists Mi Lei Mafaliu, Wu Yuling and Deng Wenzhen participated in the dialogue, and conducted a special tour in conjunction with the newly launched "Loom Trilogy (2) - High-Weaving Fabrics Exploration Exhibition" to accompany the public A museum day filled with knowledge.

Cultural Director Chen Jiajun attended the symposium and said that the Fiber Craft Museum is currently exhibiting the "Thousands of Thousand Thousand Threads of Crossing the Intersection Zone" international exchange exhibition, which brings together 17 groups of outstanding works from Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia. Today's symposium not only gave the public a deep understanding We can see the personal stories and ethnic histories contained in the artworks, as well as the creativity that ignites traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art.

"Knitting is not just women's needlework," said Chen, Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Although fiber art creation is not a mainstream in Western art history and even carries gender stereotypes, it often expresses a female cosmology and demonstrates the power of activism. Therefore, it can exert its subversive and avant-garde power in contemporary society, and then become a prominent teaching of contemporary art.

In today's forum, artist Deng Wenzhen shared that she was originally engaged in painting. After graduating, she worked in a cheongsam shop. She began to experiment with fabrics, dyeing, weaving, embroidery and other techniques to present childhood memories and Taiwanese food culture in soft sculptures. She also likes mountain climbing and hiking. He also worked in villages at home and abroad to create, and later used fiber techniques to create a series of maps, continuing his exploration of the history, culture, myths and legends of Taiwan's aboriginal people.

The artist Wu Yuling is a princess of the Paiwan tribe. After her hometown experienced the disaster of the August 8 Typhoon, she accompanied the tribal women to rediscover the value of their own existence through rubbing creation. While inheriting the traditional crafts of the ethnic group, she created contemporary artistic expressions. work. Rice from the Beinan people in Taitung. Mafaliu shared the opportunity to switch from the design field to artistic creation, and turned this excitement into the motivation to express his family’s life memory.

The Fiber Museum explains that the international exchange exhibition "Crossing the Intersection - Ten Thousand Thousand Threads" will be open until June 9. In response to the United Nations sustainable development indicators SDGs, the "Open Museum" of the Digital Culture Center of Academia Sinica and the official website of the Fiber Museum can also be viewed through Appreciate the works on display in "Crossing the Intersection - Thousands of Thousand Thousand Threads" and the collection of the Textile Museum via the Internet remotely. In addition, the 518 International Museum Day "Create "My Mini Museum"" series of activities will run until June 18. As long as the public collects limited stamps from 5 Taichung City Museums or local cultural centers with their study passport, they can redeem multi-museum co-branded gifts. . For relevant information, please visit the official website of the Taichung City Museum and Local Culture Center (https://gov.tw/Kay), the official website of the Fiber Museum (https://mofia.taichung.gov.tw/) or the Facebook fan page (https ://www.facebook.com/mofiataichung/) for inquiries.