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Overview
Jun 23, 2024
"Daxidaxi " is museology in action
Daxidaxi, a city festival that spans contemporary design and folk belief
Overview
Jun 23, 2024

From 2015 to 2017, the Museum first focused on the "June 24th Guan Sheng Dijun Birthday Procession" as the highlight of the "Daxi Cultural and Art Festival," planning performances, exhibitions and educational activities, and attempting to collaborate with professional performance troupes and Shetou groups. The experience garnered over the past three years from hosting "Daxi Cultural and Art Festival," made the Wood Art Ecomuseum raise a series of questions. Such as seeking to strike a balance between "exploring the new and digging up the old," and contemplating on how to preserve local festival culture while at the same time innovatively connecting with modernity. At that time, some cities in Taiwan started to introduce curatorial thinking, but there were no examples of cultural preservation in urban settings with the theme of festival and celebration culture.

The Museum wanted to form a professional curatorial team that could work with the Museum to develop a methodology that combined traditional festival culture with innovative methods of promotion, as well as embrace the cultural connotations of celebrations that have evolved over the years to reach people from different regions and generations. Furthermore, the Museum attempted to formulate effective expressions and language forms for international communication. Such a daunting challenge compelled the Museum, as the organizer, to propose a “master curatorial” project.

In 2018, the BIAS Architects and Associates team, which was involved in the master curatorial process, and proposed the concept and structure of “Daxidaxi," was faced with questions from both the Museum and the general public. The new "Daxidaxi," with its bold idea of translating tradition and reinventing it, and its goal of expanding the audience, was to be executed in a rolling process through consensus-building with the people of Daxi. It was not easy to cope with the large number of participants, the diverse expectations of different groups, the ambitious and often a pressing deadline, and lots of moving parts. However, since its inception, the "Daxidaxi" event has a clear goal of not interfering with the two-day traditional procession with a creation of a new "prelude" procession that unites the entire community through large-scale performances, cultural theater performed by residents, production of related artworks, video documentation, innovative exhibitions, community workshops, international exchanges, etc. Through each of these ideas, residents are able to participate in the culture of the festival in different ways, reconnecting and creating a sense of preservation and redevelopment.

  • Night Party in 2019

With Daxi having such an extraordinary new form of celebration event, museums, curatorial teams, and resident field workers share and interact with locals day after day and year after year, planning and putting into practice to induce changes in the people of Daxi. This converges into a force for change and action, contributing to the visibility of cultural festivals, and deepening the internalized awareness of cultural preservation. By designing and developing the festival's diverse experience, harnessing traditional culture as the rich nutrients for design creation, the complementarity of traditional culture and contemporary design is complemented.

Thus "Daxidaxi" has created content different from other local cultural festivals, where everyone can participate and share, and bear witness to Daxi’s unique culture, and together, they create and perpetuate this unique heritage. All of Daxi is a platform for cultural expression, breaking physical boundaries and becoming a complete ecomuseum. This difference is a testimony to "Daxidaxi" as a approach in museology and a successful and innovative way to market Daxi.