Tea Nest
2019
Tea Nest
size | 4*4*2.63 m, 1.7*1.7*1 m
material | Rice straw, cotton yarn, Japanese cedar
Cha Shou(茶壽), a heat preservation tea set for teapot, made with rice straws and stuffed with cotton fabric inside and originated from WenShui area in Miaoli. These containers were much important to the Hakka people in past. Hakka farmers can take a rest and have pots of warm tea after they finished the farm work in the afternoon.
Artist Cheng Tsung FENG turned this traditional craft into installation artwork, Tea Nest. Weaving with more rice straws, make it as big as a house size for welcoming people go interior. Based on the Teapot Nest meaning,Lasting Warming, this artwork invite people to come inside and sit around like bathing in a cup of hot tea. With the smelling of rice, bring you back to the nature life in agrarian Taiwan society in 1970s.
2019 | Miaoli
organizer | Hakka Affairs Council, Taoyuan City Government, Hsinchu County Government, Miaoli County Government, Taichung City Government
implementer | International Culture and Tourism Bureau, Miaoli County
co-organizer | Miaoli County Dahu Township Office, Dawo Cultural Ecological Association
curator | Wata Art
marketing manager | Jolin LIN
artist | Cheng Tsung FENG
project designer | Xin Jun LIU
wooden structure | Yumu Manufacture & Research
installation support | Yu Cheng SHEN, Shi Jiun WANG
photographer | Yu-Cheng SHEN
2019
茶窩
尺寸 | 4*4*2.63 m, 1.7*1.7*1 m
材質 | 稻草、棉繩、台灣國產柳杉
茶壽是苗栗當地一個以稻草製成的茶壺保溫器具，過去當地農民會在清晨提著一壺茶上山工作，仰賴茶壽的保溫效果，即使到了午後也能喝到溫暖的熱茶。
台灣藝術家范承宗學習茶壽的製作工藝，以數倍大的空間裝置詮釋，在大窩山林的崖邊造起小小的茶窩，取茶壽延長溫暖的意義，邀請人們入內圍圈而坐，像在一壺熱茶中溫暖相聚，伴隨其中濃厚的稻香，憶起農業時代勤奮知足親自然的樸實生活。
2019 | 苗栗大窩
主辦單位 | 客家委員會、桃園市政府、新竹縣政府、苗栗縣政府、台中市政府
承辦單位 | 苗栗縣政府文化觀光局
協辦單位 | 大湖鄉公所、大窩文史生態協會
策展單位 | 哇大創意
行銷經理 | 林苡秀
藝術家 | 范承宗
專案設計 | 劉信君
實木構築 | 與木製研
安裝協助 | 沈祐誠、王璽鈞
攝影 | 沈祐誠