Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko na BIAS Architects and Associates

ʻO Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko na BIAS Architects and Associates he mea lanakila hanohano loa o ka 2021 A' Design Award Kala ma ka Māhele Hoʻokūkū Hoʻolālā Hanana a me Mea E Hana ʻIa Nei.

KalaHanana· 2021

Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko

na BIAS Architects and Associates

Mea Kūʻai: Taoyuan City Government, Department of Cultural Affairs, & Daxi Ecomuseum

Mea Lanakila A' Design Award Kala ma ka Māhele Hanana

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Mea Lanakila i Hōʻoia ʻIa

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Kipa i ka Pūnaewele Nānā ma A' Design Award Hoʻolaha Nūhou Hōʻailona Makana

Nā Waihoʻoluʻu

Ka Hoʻolālā

E Pili Ana iā Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko

Mai ka makahiki 2018, ua hoʻomohala a hoʻokō ʻo BIAS i kahi ʻahaʻaina kūlanakauhale e kōkua i ke kaona ʻo Daxi e hoʻomākaukau ana no ka hana hoʻomana koʻikoʻi o ia wahi. ʻO ka mea maʻamau, mālama ʻia nā hana Taiwanese a hoʻokumu ʻia i nā kuʻuna kuaʻāina e kuhikuhi ana i nā lula koʻikoʻi. No ka kaʻana like ʻana i ka manaʻo o ka poʻe me ka lehulehu o ke kūlanakauhale, ua hoʻopili ʻo BIAS i nā kuʻuna ma o kahi hoʻonohonoho hoʻolālā o nā hana hoʻolālā a me nā hana e hāʻawi ai i ka pop-culture vibe i ka hanana. ʻO ka mea kūikawā, ua hana ʻo BIAS ma ke ʻano he curator a kono aku i nā mea hana kiʻi ʻōpio a me nā mea hoʻolālā e hui pū me ka poʻe e mālama i nā kuʻuna kahiko.

Ka Hoʻomaikai

E Pili Ana i ka A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Daxi Daxi Ka ʻahaʻaina Moʻomeheu Kūloko e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Ma Hope o ka Hoʻolālā

ʻEke Nūhou

Nā hōʻoia, nā lālā hui a me nā kikoʻī ʻenehana i hāʻawi ʻia e ka mea hoʻolālā.

Nā ʻAno Kūʻokoʻa: Lord Guan's birthday celebration is an important traditional event held in the rural outskirts of Taipei. The local people call it "the second Chinese New Year for Daxi," and everyone in the township of Daxi uses to put significant effort into the preparations. Tasked to preserve and promote the event, since 2018, BIAS has developed and implemented an urban festival to help the township preparing for the celebration. The festival has been named "Daxi Daxi," i.e., a play of words that means "Good Luck Daxi." In particular, in 2020, the third installment of "Daxi Daxi," the "Lord Guan Online" concept was implemented, i.e., a creative offline and online approach that 'allows the god's blessings to spread far away' through the new media. This festival strengthened the local community's identity, but the last installment attracted more than 100,000 people to the township. Besides this, an exhibition focused on the "backstage" of the religious event and a show mixing modern and traditional arts were implemented. By this, BIAS hopes that the traditional culture can intertwine with the urban one and, thanks to this, get enough momentum to be preserved for the future.
Nā Ana a me ka Hoʻopili: Total event area: 121,000 sqm
Nā Lepili: festival, traditional rural culture, urban pop culture, religion, parade, design as mediation, curating
ʻEnehana Hana: The main concept of Daxi Daxi is to combine traditions and pop culture so as to both rejuvenate the audience of Taiwanese religious festivals and deepen the understanding of these by the young generations. In order to achieve this, a curatorial approach was adopted, focused on selecting a series of young artists and designers that could cooperate with those holding the traditions. Most importantly, the artists, designers, and the holders of traditions were supported by BIAS that mediated their cooperation so as to ease their efforts and bring it to a good end. That is to say, BIAS initiated their encounter and acted as a facilitator and translator of their different point of view.
Pilikia Hoʻolālā: The key challenge of the project was at the curatorial level. In particular, it was the selection of third-party artists and designers that could dialogue with those today bringing forward the ancient traditions. Not only but also, it was to create proper occasions for the encounter of these seemingly opposite actors.
Noiʻi: The research was developed on various aspects, including the following. First of all, it was developed a deep understanding of ancient rituals and those people that carry on the traditions today. Then, it was developed curatorial research on a set of artists and designers that could develop a dialogue and thus intervene in the strategic renewal of traditions. Finally, mediatory research was implemented in order to help the community and the designers collaborate for the good end.
Hoʻoulu Manaʻo: Usually, Taiwanese religious ceremonies are conservative and based on rural traditions that strictly dictate parade rules. To share the charm of the folk beliefs with the urban public, BIAS tried to mediate the ancient traditions by a strategic set of design interventions and educational activities that could provide a contemporary pop culture vibe to the festival.
Ka Lōʻihi o ka Papahana: The event starts in mid-July and finishes in mid-August each year since 2018 in Daxi, Taiwan. The last installment was held in 2020.
Kaʻina Hana: The key aspects of the festival are to be found in the mixing of various aspects of the traditional parade rules and preparations with popo-culture and aesthetics. In particular, while the traditional aspects were not obliterated or negated in their functionality, touches of a new aesthetics were added and communicated to the large public as the product of a new pride of the local community.
Nā Lālā Hui: Main Curator: BIAS Architects & Associates
Nā Kuleana Kiʻi: Image #1: Photographer Yu Dong, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Yu Dong, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Yu Dong, 2018
Image #5: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2018