Fish Trap House VII East Hampton
2022
Fish Trap House VII East Hampton
Taiwanese artist Cheng Tsung FENG was invited by the renowned LongHouse Reserve, a celebrated sculpture garden in East Hampton, New York, to lead his team in July this year to construct a large-scale permanent outdoor installation titled Fish Trap House VII East Hampton. This marks the very first Taiwanese artwork to be collected by LongHouse Reserve.
The fish trap is an ancient fishing device traditionally handcrafted from bamboo and rattan. It has appeared across different regions and cultures, with its form and scale shaped by the available materials, targeted prey, natural environment, and the aesthetic values of each community. Although no longer commonly used, fish traps embody both the accumulation of human civilization and the memory of a time when people lived in harmony with nature.
FENG’s artistic practice revolves around the memory of handcraft and the bodily experience of unique spatial sensations. Responding to the characteristics of each site and the behaviors of its visitors, he reinterprets the cultural symbolism of the fish trap. In his vision, the environment becomes a river and the people moving within it are like fish. Each Fish Trap House is therefore designed as a one-of-a-kind architectural structure specific to its location. Unlike the traditional tool, these houses are not meant to catch fish, but rather to capture human attention—drawing people, like fish, to swim into the woven structure and inhabit its space.
2022 | LongHouse Reserve | 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton NY 11937, USA
artist｜Cheng Tsung FENG
project designer｜Chan Wei HSU, Sheng WANG, Hong Lin LIU
project manager｜Yi Lin CHEN
project executor｜Miaw Mann CHEN, Su Ling SHI, Zhe Wei CHANG, Wei Zhe HUANG, Hsin Chien Jian, Rui Yi JIAN
structural analysis｜Chien Chuan Engineering Consulting Co.
This project was made possible through the generous support of The Taiwanese American Arts Council, The Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the Ministry of Culture, Shining Sung, Ming Chiang, Thomas Chen, Patrick Huang, Wang Cheng Ching, Tom Su, Kun Shan Huang.
2022
筌屋VII 東漢普敦
藝術家范承宗受到位於紐約東漢普敦的著名雕塑花園LongHouse Reserve邀請，於今年七月帶領工作團隊前往搭建戶外大型常設作品「筌屋VII東漢普敦」，成為LongHouse Reserve首次收藏的台灣作品。
魚筌是以竹藤手工製作而成的古老漁獵工具，出現在各地與各族群傳統文化之中，各地的魚筌造形和尺寸主要受材料、獵物、設置環境與該族群的審美所影響，不再被使用的魚筌不但承載著人類文明的累積，也存放著過去人與自然和諧共處的關係。藝術家范承宗關注著手工的記憶、用身體感受特殊的空間感，依照創作基地的環境特徵與人們的行為屬性，他將環境視為河流，將往來的人群視為獵物，在每個基地創造獨一無二的筌屋，他所創造的筌屋並不用來抓魚，而是企圖捕捉人們的關注，引人如魚般游入其中。
LongHouse Reserve創辦人傑克拉森(Jack Lenor Larsen，1927-2020)是美國著名織品設計師，也是世界重要的傳統和當代工藝倡導者。作品獲羅浮宮、紐約當代藝術博物館等收藏，LongHouse Reserve自1975年開始打造，佔地16英畝，是當地知名藝術花園。主要展出拉森先生來自世界各地的收藏、戶外雕塑及大型裝置作品，包括美國藝術家Buckminster Fuller、Dale Chihuly、Daniel Arsham、Will Ryman、小野洋子、野口勇、法國藝術家Bernar Venet、中國藝術家艾未未等。
2022 | LongHouse Reserve | 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton NY 11937, USA
藝術家｜范承宗
專案設計｜許展維、王笙、劉鋐霖
專案管理｜陳亦琳
專案執行｜陳妙曼、石素玲、張哲維、黃煒哲、簡行謙、簡睿逸
結構分析｜建全工程顧問
This project was made possible through the generous support of The Taiwanese American Arts Council, The Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the Ministry of Culture, Shining Sung, Ming Chiang, Thomas Chen, Patrick Huang, Wang Cheng Ching, Tom Su, Kun Shan Huang