Forest of Temporal Rupture：Mt.Taiping

The Project With Artist,  LIN ,YAN-XIANG  ＿＿＿ Yan-Xiang Lin x Yu-Ting Tsai

與藝術家「林彥翔」之合作項目 ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿   林彥翔  x  蔡昱廷     

｜Single-wheel pulley, rotating hook, wood, hemp rope, artificial moss

｜Single-channel video, insect light trap, tripod

This work is co-produced by Lin Yan-Xiang and Tsai Yu-Ting. Taipingshan Forest Station was once a major forestry hub in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. More than a century ago, in order to extract valuable mountain resources, a fully functional settlement and transportation network was established deep in the mountains, complete with a police station, elementary school, and Shinto shrine.

As forest resources were depleted, the settlement was entirely relocated to what is now Mt.Taiping National Forest Recreation Area. The original site gradually disappeared into overgrown wilderness, and it was not until the recent rise of hiking culture that this forgotten history resurfaced in public awareness.

Alongside industrial development came systematic natural history surveys. Benefiting from the forest railway, Mt.Taiping became a gateway for naturalists to enter the mountains, where many species were first collected and named. The work is filmed at the remains of the former Mt.Taiping Shrine's approach path and platform. Insects are symbolically summoned through Insect collecting device, illuminated light placed across the mountain terrain, evoking the presence of various spirits that linger in this place.

｜單輪鐵滑車、旋轉釣鉤、木頭、麻繩、仿苔蘚

｜單頻道錄像、蟲燈、三角架

本作由林彥翔、蔡昱廷共同製作。太平山林場曾是日治時期台灣重要的林業據點。百年前為了開發珍稀的山林資源，深山中曾建立起功能完備的聚落與交通網路，警察局、國小與神社一應俱全。隨著林場資源枯竭，聚落全數遷移至現今的太平山森林遊樂區，舊址則隱沒入荒煙蔓草之中，直到近年登山健行興盛，這段被遺忘的歷史才重回世人眼中。 伴隨開發而來的還有系統性的博物學調查，得益於便利的林場鐵道，太平山成為博物學家深入山林的門戶，許多物種也是在此首次採集與命名。作品拍攝於現今舊太平山神社殘存的參拜道及台座，以採集昆蟲的集蟲裝置在山區間點燈，象徵性地將這裡的各種靈魂招喚於此。

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