泡茶照相馆TreasureHillTeaPhotoProject.pptVIP

Traditional urban planning cannot provide solutions for modern urbanity’s density growth Taipei no exception (transformation of agrarian sector and dependent capital accumulation) The urban edge (Treasure Hill) as deviances from power core’s attempt to control urban sprawl/strycture Treasure hill as having muli-layer meaning and complexity product out of informal city but has own spirit of place Pre-modern organic village but also an understated resistance to the rationality and cosmopolitan modes of Taipei Adaptive reuse: process of adapting old structures to new uses (artists move in, youth hostel idea) Architectural reconstruction: returning a building to a known earlier state Citizens uses before GAPP GAPP as spatial experiment and social practice Concept of artivism Time concern, some artists not develop close ties with the village and their artist-in-residency programs ended rapidly Some others developed new possibilities of dialogue with the community life of the village 2003 GAPP theme for all activities held Wanted to create a dialogue between the social and cultural others and their transitional shelters into the alternative homeland Reflection of collective identity of many immigrants from different eras and native lands Finnish architect-landscape artist Marco Gasagrande Based on keen observation, sensitive intuition, personal socio-ecological concern created “the attic” concept project Attic as a special space taking in lesser used objects from family but not yet discarded Organic city/community: city without history or layers? illegal shacks Not government planned or legitimized (compared with skyscrapers, libraries, master-planned blocks) GAPP as strategic tool for cultural landscape conservation at Treasure Hill Artivism of GAPP not dominated by “artsy” creative concepts, rather they extend definitions of art in the community Should have been activism that was counter-institutional, ended up quasi “art-curatorial’ project under gray area of reg