2019關渡國際自然藝術節

2019 　 GUANDU INTERNATIONAL NATURE ART FESTIVAL

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Special Thanks Festival Volunteers

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Special Thanks Forewords

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About the Festival

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Theme of the year: It's About Time

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Curatorial Statement

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Event Overview

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Venue

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Artist-in-Residency

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Bo-Sen Liao /

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Tsuneo Sekiguchi /

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Translation Support

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Event Support

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Photography Support

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Frog Survey 122 Taipei National University of the Arts, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education /

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Creating Period

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Opening Highlights

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Foreword from the Commissioner

Foreword from the Commissioner

Guandu is located at the confluence of the Tamsui River and Keelung River,

The relation between city, life, and nature is a topic that the whole world is paying

where the abundant organics brought by the tide and the fluvial outwash from

attention to. The annual “Guandu International Nature Art Festival” held at the

the midstream and upstream formed a flourishing wetland ecosystem. The

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Guandu Nature Park has entered into its 14th year. In 2019, the theme of the “Guandu

establishment of the "Guandu Nature Park” hopes to provide a natural classroom

International Nature Art Festival” is

It's About Time

, which aims to tell people that

integrating education, preservation, leisure, and multiple ecologies while

it is time to react, consider how to protect our surrounding natural ecology, and take

combining the precious local humanism and cultural custom resources, offering

actual actions for environmental protection.

a public space for citizens to use and share. The “Guandu International Nature Art Festival" started in 2006 further construed the environmental aesthetics for

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For the work <Guandu Archeology> in 2019, the artist learned the process from

citizens in Taipei.

calling for creation to the establishment of the Guandu Nature Park through field investigation; it is hard to imagine that there are still various construction waste and

In recent years, the Nature Park tried to combine the sensing experiences of Guandu to re-rationalize “nature” being originally recognized and observed,

trash under the beautiful nature scenery seen by people today. The artist wishes to <

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reproduce historical retrospect of the Guandu Nature Park by way of archeology. For

reflecting the connectivity between oneself and the external world. The Guandu International Nature Art Festival for the year adopts the theme of Time

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the <Elapsed Monument>, the artist learned the current living condition and crisis for <

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birds through research data, and the work reflected the effects of the environment on

to call upon the awareness of the people, trigger conversation and

the existence of birds. For the <Live long and prosper>, the artists led local students

reflection, at the same time further hoping to facilitate actual actions that

in Guandu to learn the relations between river and life. Through actual street and

confront and solve various environmental issues through cooperation. Regarding

river cleaning action as well as rice farm planting project, students may realize

the media materials used by the artists for their works this year, non-natural

the connections between life and river, and execute actions to protect the natural

materials have been used for the creation as an exception for the first time for the

environment. The meaning behind the investigation showed the care for the land, and

purpose of leading the reflection of citizens regarding the current environmental

the works embody the stories about the local, nature, and humanism.

issues through the wastes being used, and in turn consider the possible actions, rendering a more valued and treasured environment.

Different from the form of artist-in-residency, the Art Festival this year invited artists to create works based on the accumulated investigation performed over the

It is expected that the combination of the natural field and the interpretation

years regarding the Guandu Nature Park. Artists were invited to join the process of

of artists’ works will enable more people to understand the value of ecology

investigation, understand the particular investigation results, and blend in the daily

preservation through participation in person, and create more emotions and

life of the Guandu Nature Park. Also, it brought in more participants from different

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backgrounds, such as ecology researchers, volunteers, local residents, to further cooperate, hoping the artists would exhibit the beauty of nature and creativity with their unique talents for creation in the natural environment of Guandu. Furthermore, it is hoped that the integration of art and natural environment would encourage citizens to become closer to nature, improve their feelings for beauty-appreciation in life, and

Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government

experience the harmony between culture, nature, art, and life.

Commissioner, Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government

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Foreword from the President of WBST Guandu Nature Park located at the confluence of the Tamsui River and Keelung 57

River is established to protect the habitat of wild birds. Covering merely 57 hectares, the Guandu Nature Park possesses nearly a thousand species of animals and plants, as well as a diversity of ecological environment, which is

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also an important habitat for the migration of migratory birds at the rim of the East Asia continent. The Guandu International Nature Art Festival was launched in 2006, and it was the first large-scale nature art event held in a nature park focusing on preservation in Taiwan. The Art Festival primarily uses natural elements as the media materials for art creation and connects the relations between humans, nature, and art to improving the recognition of people toward

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nature and environment, allowing people to further experience the joy of involving 2019

in nature.

From 2016 to 2018, the Nature Art Festival focused on the theme of “Listening, Connection and Symbiosis.” After three years of experiments, the Art Festival took up the theme "It’s about time" to tell people it is the time to take action. This year, apart from inviting seven groups of foreign and domestic artists to create their artworks based on the data accumulated from the continual investigations of the Guandu Nature Park over the years, the International Nature Art Festival rolled (

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out an international forum that combined the cross-field cooperation and local integration.

We appreciate the long-term support from our partners, including the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government, Taipei City Animal Protection Office, Asia Pacific Hotel, Soundscape Association of Taiwan, Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei National University of the Arts, GuanDu Junior High School, and HSBC Bank (Taiwan) Company Limited, to join integrate the forces of nature, art, and environmental education and enlightening more people to get close to nature, and further taking actions to protect the environment. Let's co-exist with nature.

President, Wild Bird Society of Taipei

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About the Festival

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Guandu Natural Park has hosted the Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival since 2006. It was the first time for Taiwan to have such a large-scale nature art event held in a nature park with a conservation mission. This artistic action is rooted in the Guandu wetland, which is deeply ecological and rich in estuary culture, creating a space for dialogue between people, art and nature. It also paints a blueprint for the symbiosis of estuary culture, wetland conservation and environmental art. In 2016, it was renamed Guandu International Nature Art Festival. With 10 years of accumulated experience and memory, the festival has further implemented and deepened our understanding and care for the locality.

This artistic action has been expanded into a plan with multiple aspects. In order to deepen the participatory experience to acknowledge the core value of this project, both the artist-in-residence and volunteer programs are changed to involve more explorations of local stories. We actively explore the relationship between human and nature. The art festival also began to establish partnerships such as Soundscape Association of Taiwan and Bamboo Curtain Studio, developing nature art education programs that combines environmental education and art creation elements. We hope that everyone who participate in the art festival can be more proactive in rebuilding their relationship with the environment, inspired by nature, and jointly find a direction for the sustainability in the future.

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Theme of the Year

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“We stand now where two roads diverge, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road

the one less traveled by

offers our last, our

only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

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Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

Today, in the era of great acceleration, human beings have completely

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impacted nature and even consumed the earth's resources to an unprecedented level. Should we be amazed that how people can still be living so comfortably by already knowing the truth?

The United Nations General Assembly has set the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development 2030 for Sustainable Development Sustainable Development Goals

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Goals, calling "a better and healthier world blueprint" for the global.

Whether is uncovering facts or the setting of goals, it is telling us that change and action couldn't be delayed. Action speaks louder than words. There is no way to produce any useful result, if we do not start to take an action. Only by working together, we can achieve the target in these stirring times.

We comb through history to find clues, cross the field, jump out the frame and together, we create a turning point.

It’s time to take action.

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Guandu Natural Park has experienced severe damage of wetland creature habitat due to the industrial development. In order to retain the last

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piece of pure wetland in Taipei City, the Wild Bird Society of Taipei initiated a social movement, and after a long period of efforts, the Guandu Plain has been preserved as a wetland, and the management office was established in 2001 to operate Guandu Natural Park. The management aims to provide a good habitat for the protists and migratory birds. In 2005, due to the avian influenza outbreak, the park was severely affected, and the number of visitors decreased significantly. To get rid of the influence of avian flu, Guandu Natural Park Management Office initiated the activity of combining nature and installation art in 2006. We held the Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival for the first time, opening up an artistic

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approach to experience nature.

After ten years, the art festival was transformed in the 11th year, and the name was changed to Guandu International Nature Art Festival. After the experimental phase of 2016 to 2018 with "listening, connection, symbiosis" as the curatorial main axis, this year the Guandu International Nature Art

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Festival takes the theme of “It’s About Time” and regards the Park as a stage. The performance here consists of not only Guandu's ecosystem, but

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also the various environmental realities linked to the world. We hope that through the artistic perspective, we can evoke people's attention, dialogue and reflection, and we will work together to change and act, so that we can sustain, and find a stable pace in the turbulent times.

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A total of seven (groups of) artists have been invited to create this year. This year's art festival includes seven major research topics to connect artists with local participants from various backgrounds, such as eco-researchers, volunteers, and local residents, finding out how a group of people behind the studies show concern for the land, and simultaneously showcases a lifestyle. The "Rice Planting and River Cleanup Project" is a part of the art education activity “Live long and prosper” of Guandu Junior High School students led by two Taiwanese artists, Fang-Yi Yang and Yu-Hong Peng. With such a project, students are led to understand the relationship between rivers and life. Through actual street and river cleaning operations and rice planting, students could find out how to contribute to the land in daily life.

The research topic "The Relationship between human and soil: Discussion on the Farmers in Guandu Plain" is based on the work of a local cultural and historical organization - Beitou Storyteller, in conjunction with Taiwanese artist Chiung-Ju Chang. Researchers conducted interviews with farmers on the Guandu Plain to understand the current farming status and how they withstand the development pressure in various places. "Frog Survey" is a collaboration between the "Digital storytelling course" of the Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education at Taipei National University of the Arts and the Guandu Nature Park Volunteer Team - Frog Survey Team. Taking environmental sustainability and art participation as the development themes, they used the frog survey as a filed to describe the colorful frog life with infographics and animated images. "History of Guandu Natural Park" is a process in which the Taiwanese artist Bo-Sen Liao deeply understood the history of Guandu Plains and Guandu Natural

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Park through field study and represented this process through archaeology and excavation.

The "Transect Bird Survey" is the study of a Taiwanese artist Kuan-Ling Huang, who actually participated in the bird survey work, interacted directly with the researchers, and used the research materials that reflect the bird composition and the habitat environmental conditions with the assistance

Tsuneo Sekiguchi Anusorn Tunyapalit

of the researchers to tell the story of bird survival crisis. "Sound Monitoring" is an extension from the soundscape project in the past three years.

This year, it collaborated with Japanese artist Tsuneo Sekiguchi to provide the public with another interface to understand the characteristics of Guandu soundscape, and to let people listen to the sound of nature with heart. In "Brackish Water Reintroduction Project" participated by Thai artist Anusorn Tunyapalit, the artist followed the researchers to do benthic ecology study, including sampling and specimen processing, and turned this experience into creation.

This year's Guandu International Nature Art Festival adopts a ribbon-like participation mechanism. We integrate artists into the daily life of Guandu Natural Park, and use the qualities of art creation to propose different perception and perspectives for people facing the environment. Through the artists’ creation, the story of Guandu will be shared, conveying the value of habitat and biodiversity, and at the same time triggering the reader ’s awareness of ecological conservation, leading all living beings to keep close to nature with heart.

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Event Overview

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Venue

Guandu Nature Park 55

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No. 55, Guandu Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City 112, Taiwan

Artist Field Study

Artist-in-Residency

Opening Events

Extended Events

Art Volunteer Program

Introduce Guandu Nature Park

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Field Study Artwork Discussion

Introduce and Training

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On-Site Production On-site Support

Octorber Artist Sharing

3 NOV Opening Carnival (Interactive Sessions with Artists, Artist Talk, Experience Activities, Market, Performances etc.)

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Artwork Exhibition

Opening Ceremony

Opening Event Support The Crossing Conference

Located at the junction of Tamshui River and Keelung River, Guandu Nature Park is a nature park of wetland preservation with landscape consisting of an integrated wetland environment of swamp and pond. It is a great inhabitation for a rich variety of organisms, as well as an important pass-by stop for migratory birds in their annual migration route. Hence, it has been recognized

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Artwork Exhibition

by BirdLife International as an “Important Bird Area” (IBA). The park, authorized by Taipei City Government, is currently administrated under the Wild Bird Society of Taipei (WBST) and devotes care to wetland and wild birds’ conservation.

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Artist-in-Residency

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Artwork Exhibition 17 AUG - 20 AUG |

Field Study

08 OCT - 31 OCT |

On-Site Production

26 OCT - 27 OCT |

Artist Sharing

01 NOV - 31 DEC |

Artwork Exhibition

Thanks for Assistance Yong Sheng Rope Bamboo-Lai Culture & Creative Honta Blackboard Co., LTD Du Lin Building Materials Company Jung Rung Hardware Jian Mei Hardware

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Brackish Water Reintroduction Project G Anusorn Tunyapalit /

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In 2019, we extended our focus from Shezidao to Guandu and collaborated with the local schools in Guandu regarding major issues of "water" and

By Szu-Ting Hsu

"paddy field wetland." Guandu Water School started from reconnaissance of the Tamsui River near school to actually clean the area near the river.

From understanding urban runoff to removing urban garbage, we lead students to experience the possibilities of different lifestyles. Guandu Paddy Field Planting Project started from transplanting rice seedlings in spring. Students worked hard in the rice field in Guandu Natural Park, experienced

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the farmers’ work, and learned to appreciate the changes among the four seasons. From the project, student got to understand the relationship between rivers and life, and through the actual street and river cleaning jobs and paddy field planting, the project aimed to maintain the "living"

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habitat; at the end of the course, we thought about how to create another space for another “life” style.

Live long and prosper aims to find out how to contribute to the nature in daily life via rivers and paddy wetlands. With such a plan, we collaborated with the organizations around the Tamsui River basin to experience and understand that that water resources are not endless. If we do not cherish them, we will eventually suffer from water shortage. There were a total of 5 lessons in our course series. Each lesson leads 40 Guandu Junior High School students to participate in a 4-hour practical experience. In the 5th lesson, we arranged a final presentation to embody the results of 5 4

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the students’ deep thinking. The content of the course was focused on the water, explaining the characteristics of water and rivers, as well as the relationship between cities and river basins. We also arranged actual cleaning activities to solve the current garbage problem around Tamsui River.

Through the creation of artists, we intend to convey the flow and interaction with the waters, and to educate students to initiate reducing garbage and extend the good deeds to schools, families and communities. Through the collaboration with this educational project, the artists collected students' feelings about life and the wastes of daily life, combined these thoughts with the wastes and created artworks to be displayed in a public space. Through the concept of "mass," the artists intended to inspire feelings and actions.

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Change Bowl

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Nature Material, Waste Material

We fill the plastic bowls made by recycled plastic bags with harvested rice, a large bowl woven by rice straws with rubbish from the cleanup river project show the importance of transpositional thinking on the issue of sustainable. Moreover, we need to know the relationship between river and life, protect our earth land from waste.

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Guandu Junior High School& Fang-Yi Yang Taiwan

Yang, Fang-Yi is an artist from Miaoli, Taiwan, and has graduated from the Department of Commercial Design, Ming Chuan University and gained master degree in Arts Management from Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She is of Hoklo and Hakka descent, with which she has developed a long-term research enthusiasm in the "cross" role and behaviour. Through research transposition of heterogeneous weaving, re-creation and cross-disciplinary cooperation, she tries to practice the possibility of personal self-discipline and group creation under the influence of contemporary society and the change of natural environment.

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Rubbish Rainchains

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Live long and prosper

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Nature Material, Waste Material

Installation art made of the rubbish from the cleanup river project will be displayed for a one-month experiment. We combined the collected rubbishes into a "Rubbish Rainchains", and make rainwater flow through the "Rubbish Rainchains" to see if the rubbish will cause any change in its quality. The experiment can show the river is affected by rubbish and urges us to meditate how humans can balance between producing rubbish and protecting nature.

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Guandu Junior High School& Yu-Hong Peng Taiwan

Peng, Yu-Hong has graduated and gained master degree from the Department of Visual Arts, National Chiayi University. He loves the theme of natural creation and he believes his own definition often influenced by his natural experience and persona; cultural norms.

However, by observing nature, he found out different understanding and definition of nature. Besides, by cooperating with the team to promote the concept of mutual nourishment and self-healing in "Ecosystem", he has learned to live harmonic with nature and space.

So as to achieve the ultimate goal of "Live long and prosper".

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By Szu-Ting Hsu Aldo Leopold writes in the chapter about Land Ethics in his work â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Sand County Almanac,â&#x20AC;? stating: "The norms of land ethics expand the scope of groups to included soil, water, animals and plants, which can be collectively called land. The ecological interpretation of history has shown that humans are merely a member of the biota." Human participation in land succession tells countless development stories through history. The history

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makes us understand that no matter how much humans ask of the land, the land will eventually find a balance, whether it is through a severe disaster or slow landscape change. The present decision of humans will influence their future state of existence on the land.

Aldo Leopold Taking farmers as an example to discuss the relationship between people and land, in the past, Chinese society generally believed that farmers needed to "look at the sky, measure the land, and understand everything" in order to grow rich crops. Does this mindset still exist? What has changed in the relationship between people and land? Judging from the Guandu Plain, the rice field here has been cultivated for more than two hundred years, and it used to be an experimental farmland for the cultivation of japonica during the Japanese colonial period. Back in the day, the Plain was a very important rice cultivation area in Taiwan, as well as a good habitat for a large number of living creatures, such as migratory birds, aquatic insects, and suburban hill mammals. Over time, the environmental condition and economic structure changed. The Guandu Plain experienced pressures such as seawater intrusion, waste farmland, and waste irrigation ditch. Its agricultural value has been not as good as before. Farmers are gradually reluctant to use a land as pure farmland. Such large areas of farmland and wasteland have been under development pressure everywhere. How should humans reach harmony with other members in the biota?

To include more diverse types of water habitats, Guandu Natural Park has been continuously building a paddy field wetland environment in the "sustainable area" in the park, and has taken the fallow period in the second stage of rice cultivation to introduce water to the field for continuous storage, carrying out wet soil regulation to increase wetland yield and provide for water birds. The next step in the prospect of Guandu Nature Park is to invite neighboring farmlands to a partnership. Through continuous communication, thinking, and learning, we intend to find the best sustainable state of the Guandu Plain and let people coexist with the land. During the reconnaissance of the farmland on the Guandu Plain and interviews with local farmers, the Beitou Storyteller presented the report with various appearances of the Guandu Plain, reflecting the ambition carried by these rice fields. Artists also used ceramics to tell these collected stories, and will try to collect different clays from Guandu and create pottery.

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Spread Flowers

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Wetland has such functions, conserving water, providing space for the living things, Guandu Plain as wetland has one more function of preparing large area for planting rice. The soil I use for my artworks is taken from Guandu Plain. I hope the image of integration of soil will enable people to work hand-in-hand, to bring the land vitality, prosperity and symbiosis.

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Chiung-Ju Chang Taiwan

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Chang, Chiung-Ju was born in 1967, Taipei. She started her ceramic art creation earlier due to the ceramic teaching by Low Hwee Min 2013

in Malaysia. After working many years on graphic designing, which relies heavily on computer technology, she returned to do ceramics in 2013. Since then, with the help of teacher Margaret Shiu, she has been making pottery in the Bamboo Curtain Studio. Returning to the natural she has even calmer and full of energy, thus making artworks closer to the environment.

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SimGuandu

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"Guandu Plain" is Taipei's last undeveloped agricultural virgin land.

In the past 100 years, it has been portrayed in the minded of people in different looks. If all of schemes had been come true, what kind of Game over

Guandu Plain are we going to have? How many people have wished that Guandu Plain do could help their dream came true? Come and join us to discover what the wishes rely on these rice fields in Guandu Plain!

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Beitou Storyteller Taiwan

Storytelling is an old but common way in communication. Through the active interaction, a storyteller finds out the most relaxing conversations with the participants. Not only does he tell the stories, but also spreads various knowledge and social the values.

Beitou Storytellers endeavors to awaken a sense of identity and mission in its residents towards the land. Utilizing various fun activities, Beitou Storytellers is attracting people and changing the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impression of Beitou, sharing the impressive multicultural history and culture of the area.

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As we all know, Guandu Natural Park and Guandu Plain are important habitats for migratory birds in East Asia. It is hard to imagine that in such an urbanized city of Taipei, there is still a vast agricultural land

History of Guandu Natural Park /

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and wetland reserved for natural ecology. However, it was not until I participated in a creation last year that I heard about the situation from the employees of the park: “The trees here are not naturally grown. They were all planted nearly 20 years ago,” “At the time of site preparation, a

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lot of waste was dug,” which surprised me a lot. As a newcomer, I was full of imagination and curiosity. If we carefully look for some information about that time, an important reason for the establishment of the park was actually the dumping of waste soil on the Guandu Plain 20 years ago, which destroyed bird habitats and triggered the environmental protection movement initiated by bird lovers.

Now, thanks to the hard work of everyone, in such a green and lush environment, the destruction back in the day is no longer seen. To a certain extent, we seem to think that the establishment of a nature reserve is equivalent to protecting the most important habitat of Northern Taipei.

However, this is not the case. Over the past 20 years, land has become the most competitive commodity. The Guandu Plain is no exception, and an unprecedented combination with the natural environment has appeared in the agriculture on the plain. In fact, the habitat of birds and creatures has gradually decreased, although terrifying waste soil and garbage can no longer be seen now.

In addition to archaeological trial excavation, this creation also involves collection. Before the creation began, there happened to be a sewer project at the large lawn of Guandu Nature Park, so artists were informed to go, record and collect. The artists referred to the area collection as the collection area A, and the archaeological trial excavation as the area B. The digging depth of the collection area A was nearly two meters deep, and from the section excavated at that time, it could be seen that there were many construction wastes and many household wastes, but because the earthwork excavated from above was collected directly, the depth of the collection could not be identified. Many large wastes were collected at the time, such as tires, sleepers, and household waste. The depth of the archaeological trial in Area B was about 40 cm, surrounded by excavated rocks and bricks.

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Collected excavations from Area A

Collected excavations from Area B

From this project, it can be observed that Guandu Natural Park does have problems of construction waste and garbage. Therefore, this project can be regarded as an reflection of history. From another perspective, the archaeological site is a field that calls for time, letting us feel the reappearance of history. From an aesthetic point of view, when our body enters another field, our feelings are naturally different. The process from the field to underground and from the visible to the invisible, is perhaps the aesthetic contribution of this work.

The primary focus of both environmental art and landscape art is the natural environment. How to respond to the natural environment is undoubtedly one important attribute of such works. Such matter should be approached no matter in terms of material, shape or form. But, after all, art is artificial. With this perspective, perhaps architecture can be seen as a part of environmental art, and buildings by indigenous peoples or ancestors using traditional construction methods can be regarded as the precursors of landscape art or environmental art. The scaffolding created in this project is inspired by the Tao tribe’s underground house, and the windward side is deliberately lowered to respond to the blow of the northeast monsoon.

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Guandu Archaeology

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Bamboo, rope, Common Reed, Waste Material, Document

This artwork is meant to “represents” the process of archaeology and excavation. We know that archaeology is basically to examine the material culture and environment for analysis and to use to the data to reconstruct a life appearance. In addition, representation has always been a very important way to transmission aesthetics and meaning. Michel Foucault in his <Words and Things> also mentioned the concept that each historical stage has a set of rules of knowledge structure. From an aesthetic point, it's (

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Bo-Sen Liao Taiwan

Liao, Bo-Sen's present works emphasize more on various media and images in capitalist societies; he begins to focus on the living condition of nonmainstream groups in Taiwan. He creates new types of public art through 2016

community involvement and tries to transform all kinds of rigidity via art. He has been participating in different landscape and art festivals to reflect the relationships within space, landscape, natural environment, and the local context since 2016.

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australis ) and Para Grass (Brachiaria mutica ) in the mudflats. The density and height of Common Reeds and Para Grass were affected, resulting The wetlands in the Core Reserve area of Guandu Natural Park face continuous sedimentation and increasing the speed of succession. Since 2002,

in a sparse and relatively low vegetation cover, forming a suitable environment that is favorable for waterbirds and observations. When the sluice

the Park has carried out restoration projects each year, but the obstruction of the Guandu Baxian dike restricts sediment carrying capacity and the

gate is opened, a temporary biological corridor is formed, allowing benthic organisms, fish and shrimp to enter the wetland, increasing the overall

rapid accumulation of earthwork from the restoration projects has resulted in an deteriorated environment. The slow moving water results in low

biodiversity and supplementing the food availability to waterbirds (Figure 3). Under the comprehensive management of the Park, the wetland of the

nutrient exchange and the brackish water outside of the dike cannot enter or exit the Park, which blocks the biological pathways. To improve the

Core Reserve area is slowly becoming the favored environment that waterbirds need.

viability of the wetland, a project was proposed to solve the long-term problem of insufficient inflow water in the Core Reserve area and to increase the salinity in the water. In 2015, the Wild Bird Society of Taipei Guandu Natural Park Management Office and the Hydraulic Engineering Office, Public Works Department, Taipei City Government collaborated to build a new vertical rising sluice gate equipment at the Baxian No. 4 valve, which could then be opened periodically to allow brackish water outside the dike to enter at high tide to allow. This opening of the dike would allow for exchange of water and nutrients, and the creation of a biological corridor which would enrich the species diversity of benthic organisms and provide food sources to attract more birds to the Park.

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Ecology Dimension of Guandu nature Park Material

Mixed media

This artwork is an ecology survey in "Guandu Nature Park" which has diverse and interesting ecology. Anusorn invites everyone to observe the in a multidimensional perspective, and the same time he also encourages viewers recreate and transform the original work. All of which is an attempt to demonstrate the interdependence between nature, humans and the environment. That is fused to create a dimension that cannot be separated, every part has meaning and value to each other.

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Anusorn Tunyapalit Thailand

Anusorn Tunyapalit 2016

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Anusorn Tunyapalit (b. 1992, Phrae, Thailand) lives and works in Chiang Mai. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University in 2016. As an interdisciplinary artist, Anusorn creates with various media primarily sculpture, sound, and moving images. His practice centers on creating an a new sensory experience through interpretation, transition, and transformation of mediums information.

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The way to improve the world’s soundscape is very simple - learn to listen. Nowadays, listening seems to be a forgotten habit. We must open our ears and be more sensitive to the wonderful world of sound around us. When we develop a sense of observation, we can further develop largescale socially meaningful projects and influence others with our own experience.

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In the soundscape project in the past three years, we have used recordings to monitor the changes in the wetland’s soundscape, and have guided the public to use their senses to reconnect humans and the natural environment. We hope that through the use soundscapes, we can promote the aesthetics of natural listening and find tranquility in the environment. We look forward to making natural soundscape the main theme and inspiring

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The three-year workshop allowed everyone to learn how to collect sounds, listen to various elements in the soundscape, and make an online sound map out of each collector's sound file (Figure 1). The soundscape map is a platform to evoke everyone's awareness of preserving soundscapes and of listening to various sounds. The association currently uses Google Maps to publicly display the sound clips collected in various places. We hope that we took the initiative and encouraged more people to work together to preserve soundscapes. In the future, we also hope that everyone can

Promotion Strategy for Guandu Natural Park Soundscape Project

use the soundscapes of various places to create more results in humanities, arts, and ecology.

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Figure 2 : Artists' creative painting of soundscape

Sound artist Wu Can-Zheng once said, "Sound has a hidden flow power, which inspires and constitutes space and events, and sound is also a basic part of personal mentality and emotion, as well as the world's thinking and consciousness." Today's soundscape will become the futureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, and will affect the soundscape in the future environment. In addition to continuously interpreting the soundscape features and changes in the environment with scientific software, this year, through the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creation, the Guandu Natural Park wetland soundscape was interpreted in the form of art. The artists also shared their understanding and imagination of the Guandu Natural Park soundscape, so as to help the public understand the current wetland soundscape characteristics and issues.

During the field survey arranged by Guandu Natural Park, the Secretary General of Soundscape Association of Taiwan, Chia-yun Lee, led the artists to redraw their impression of Guandu Wetland with sound. Artists walked through Guandu Natural Park with sound-collecting equipment, opened their ears to listen to the sound story of wetlands rich in water, land and plants, and creatively painted this sound journey (Figure 2).

Make people living in a noisy world aware of the soundscape in life and the environment, and further think about which sounds need to be retained.

Think about how we could make these sounds flourish, retain the main features of the environment, and in turn beautify these soundscapes, integrate soundscape design into the future environmental management and construction, and make the environment soundscape better.

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Taiwan Lily Sound Collector

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Bamboo, Rope

I hope people can listen to the sounds the way a flower does without analyzing it, which can be a kind of meditation, “ The listener is the sound.” Is the same as “The observer is the observed”. Listening helps us to understand ourselves. My understanding of “I ”is that “ I am the world; the universe is my body”. If “ I “ could understand who I am then “ I “ will care about the world, the earth, nature and so on in a way nature cares for “ my body “ .

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Tsuneo Sekiguchi Japan

Tsuneo Sekiguchi has been making a space for people and himself to dance and named “Rainbow Hut”. He felt lucky that he could visit Taiwan many times and have chances to make his artworks. He made two environmental artworks in Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project and one in NMMST International Marine Environmental Art Project.

Artist reflects on his life and believes that through it he could learn many things.

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Guandu Nature Park was founded on the foundations of: protecting the Guandu wetlands and providing opportunities for education, research and recreation. The key to protecting and conserving the Guandu wetlands is to first gain understanding about the biodiversity of this wetland through various monitoring processes, and the main one was to use birds as the key indicator species for changes in the environment. Since 1998 till

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present day, the transect survey for birds of the Park has provided a huge database that feedbacks to the management of the wetland and can be The transect survey for birds at Guandu Nature Park have recorded 259 species, of which 59 species are considered protected species in Taiwan: 3

further used in research to better understand wetland management.

Category I species, 41 Category II species and 15 Category III species. There are 18 species that are in the IUCN Red List: 7 Near Threatened species, twice

6 Vulnerable species, 4 Endangered species and 1 Critically Endangered species. When selecting birds that are represent the Park’s notable rare and

during the migration months (March, April, May, June, September, October, November), and once during the non-migration months (July, August,

endangered species, only those that appear regularly and have sufficient data were selected, such as the Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor ),

December, January, and February). The survey route is around 3.5 kilometers while travelling at around 1 to 1.5 kilometers per hour. During the

Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia ), Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis ) and Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus ).

The transect survey for birds at the Park began in 1998 and have maintained the same method and route, keeping to 19 surveys per year

survey the type of bird seen or heard was recorded along with the number of individuals, and subdivisions and microhabitat they are appear in.

The Park is divided into eight subdivisions: Freshwater Wetland 1, Freshwater Wetland 2, Freshwater Wetland 3, Freshwater Wetland 4, Freshwater

The Black-faced Spoonbill (Platalea minor ) is listed as Endangered internationally by the IUCN and as a Category I protected species in Taiwan.

Wetland 5, Saltwater Wetland, Paddy Field Area and Nature Center (Figure 1). Five microhabitat types were used in the survey are: Water, Mudflat,

There are only around 4,000 individuals in the world and because of its dire status, has received a great deal of international attention in recent

Short-emergent marsh, High-emergent marsh, Tree, and Rice Paddy. When it is not possible to determine the type of microhabitat the bird is in,

years. Several major habitats of Black-faced Spoonbills along the East Asia-Australia flyway have been actively protecting its critical habitats

or if birds are only seen flying by, or if only sounds are heard, then the number shall be directly recorded in the "Number" column. Environmental

and their numbers are slowly making a comeback. The southwestern coastal wetlands of Taiwan are the main wintering ground for Black-faced

conditions are recorded hourly, which includes: time interval, high and low tide, wind force, wind direction, cloud cover and precipitation. Since 1998

Spoonbills, while Guandu is largely a stopover site with a few instances where they occasionally winter here. During the spring of 2015 (April 15th),

to December 2019 a total of 259 species from 53 families were recorded in the transect survey.

59 Black-faced Spoonbills were recorded and is the highest number observed over the years. Eurasian Spoonbills (Platalea leucorodia ) on the other hand, have a healthy global population but is rarely observed in Taiwan, and is considered a Category II protected species. The Guandu area is

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are polygamous, which means the female mates with multiple males and the males are the ones responsible for hatching eggs and brooding. Thus, the colorings of the males tend to be relatively plain and discreet, and the female is the more colorful one. Greater Painted-snipes are commonly found in rice paddy fields and are heavily impacted by the management of the land (land preparation, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.). This makes the Greater Painted-snipe an important indicator species in the rice paddy field environment. The Sustainable Area of the Park is where the Greater Painted- snipes are most commonly seen and recorded. Although, the Park still use the conventional agricultural method, but only a small amount

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Birds of the Myna family are quite common in Taiwan but most of the ones seen are invasive species, like the Javan Myna (Acridotheres

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Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca ) and Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha ) are the Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most common and numerous waterfowl (Figure 1). Green-winged Teal are winter migrants that began to arrive starting in September, and the best time to observe them are between October to

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every year there would be a few pairs remaining to breed on the islands of the Core Reserve Area. Breeding on the islands faces threats posed by snakes, stray dogs and the possibility of nests being inundated by typhoons or heavy rainfall. Park management installed floating platforms which can be seen in Ponds 2 and 10, as they provide an ideal alternative nesting spot for the Black-winged Stilts away from snakes and stray dogs, and are unaffected by changes in water level. Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia ) and Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola ) are both winter migrants with relatively stable numbers, making them easy to observe at the Park. Common Greenshanks have high site fidelity and are commonly seen in Freshwater 1 and 2 in the Core Reserve Area. Wood Sandpipers on the other hand prefer more inland areas, and are mostly transit and while travelling through the Park they can show up in large numbers in the Paddy Field Area.

In the summer months, most of the waterbirds have returned north and remaining species commonly seen are Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis

aethiopicus ) and members from the Ardeidae Family. The Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis ) is generally a summer migrant, which is secretive and not easy to observe as they hide in between the reeds near the water. Generally when seen, they are in flight and during the peak of the breeding season itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to see them flying back and forth with nesting materials or food. When the Park was just founded, the area of tall emergent marsh was scarce in the Core Reserve Area and they were not very commonly seen, but in recent years, as the area of all emergent marsh have increased making it easier to observe the Yellow Bitterns.

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and destroying bird nests, and more recently in 2018 the Bureau has begun to use air guns in hopes to reduce their population size and restore the balance.

10 Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus ) and Black-collared Starling (Gracupica nigricollis ) are both invasive species of Mynas that have escaped into the wild as a result of human introduction. They compete with the native species, Crested Mynas, for habitat and food. The Javan Myna was originally imported to Taiwan as an ornamental bird, and were introduced to the wild because of escapees, abandonment and mercy releases.

The Javan Myna proved to have a strong adaptability and successfully uses man-made structures such as the holes in the poles of road signs or the drain hole in cement walls to nest. Currently there is a large and stable population in the low altitude areas all over Taiwan, and they account for nearly 90% of the Myna population at the Park. The situation is similar with the Black-collared Starlings, but the rate of their spread has not been as fast as that of Javan Myna in the Guandu area, because the Guandu Plains still remains as largely open agricultural fields and they prefer environments that are more developed such as those seen at Shizi and Luzhou, where flocks of more than ten are often seen.

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Elapsed Monument

Material

Bamboo, rope, Nature Material, Waste Material

The overall shape of the artwork is based on the obelisk, meant to commemorate the elapsed, forgotten, and the once existing. The artwork used the materials collected in the park. This material are arranged and stacked in according to their relative speed of being weathered by the natural environment. The speed of material disintegration also corresponds to the number of the birds and the degree of their being endangered. The more easily the materials disintegration, the more birds may be endangered. The artworks will disintegrate, ruin in and disappear from top to bottom over time. In the end, those materials will return to nature. The artist attempts to convert bird survey data into a direct visually feeling, in an attempt to bring out â&#x20AC;&#x153;It's About Timeâ&#x20AC;?.

ď˝&#x153; Bio

Kuan-Ling Huang Taiwan

Artists has long been concerned about nature-related environmental issues and activities. He is creation techniques often highlight the uniqueness characteristics and texture of the material itself. He also often adds organic materials to his artworks to make them feel more alive. Besides, in his artworks, we can find out that two forces of "nature" and "human beings" compete against each other, resulting in various collisions, interactions, similarities and contradictions. The two forces seem to be distinct but also ambiguous and this became a paradoxical dilemma. Thus, his artwork seems to be simple but in fact there is some philosophical thinking and questioning hidden in it.

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Partner

Guandu Nature Park Management Office, Yuki CHANG & Guandu Frog Volunteer Team and TNUA Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education.

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By Chin-Ling Wu, Chun-Wen Chen

Table 1: Statistics of each frog species and amounts from 2016 to 2018. (Organized by Yen-Ting Lai)

The Guandu Natural Park Volunteer Team was established in 2005 and was divided into three groups for studies: insects, birds, and frogs. The frog

Description

study (hereinafter referred to as the Team Froggy) aims to cultivate personnel to lead the parent-child frog camp. The initial study area of Team 94

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7 In January 2015, we reached a collaboration agreement with the Taipei National University of the Arts (hereinafter referred to as the TNUA) for frog studies. After surveying the TNUA campus, 7 survey samples were selected at locations with permanent or temporary waters, including TNUA Cafe, the back of the library, the back of the art gallery, the student cafeteria, the Afu Thatched Cottage, and the Bolina Restaurant. The study records the frog species, habitats and number, and clarifies the status of frog resources in different environments. The frog study on the campus of TNUA has been continuing to this day.

The 2015 five-month (January, May, July, September, and December) quarterly survey records show that there are nine amphibians, accounting for about 1/4 of the frog species on the main island of Taiwan. However, some species are seasonal. Species that are active only in autumn and winter would not appear in these five records. Lu Guang-Yang, an emeritus professor in the Department of Life Sciences of National Taiwan Normal University, speculated that frogs that are active on the campus of TNUA should be more than these nine types. Therefore, in 2016, Guandu Nature Park changed to a monthly survey record system. A total of 13 species have been recorded, including Ornate Narrow-mouthed Frog, White-lipped Treefrog, Eiffinger's treefrog, LaTouche's Frog, Long-legged frog, bull frog, Meintein tree frog, Gunther's frog, spot-legged tree frog, spectacled toad, olive frog, Taipei tree frog, and rice field frog. Table 1 with the statistics from 2016 to 2018 indicates that the ditch in the parking lot behind the library and surrounding spots are ecological hot spots for frogs.

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Design is a way to see the society, and it is about how people imagine, transform, and in turn create a better society. The 2019 Guandu International Natural Art Festival collaborated with the Research in Digital Storytelling course of TNUA Humanities Education Institute, with environmental sustainability and artistic participation as the themes, and the TNUA frog study as the local field story, taking the Team Froggy of Guandu Natural Park as an object and deeply exploring the story and digital narrative methods of ecological sustainability. The course was conducted with the following five steps:

2016-2018 1. Field exploration: This course invited Mr. Li Cheng-En to explain and carry out the frog survey on the campus of TNUA, letting students experience the rich appearance and ecological environment of frogs on campus. The students then searched for information in small groups to further discuss the characteristics and habits of frogs, as well as the problems facing the local ecology. In particular, they referred to the Frog Survey Results of Taipei National University of the Arts 2016-2018 by the Team Froggy.

2. Insights and design focuses: The students found that TNUA has a very rich population of frogs, which is faced with various problems. The habitat fragmentation and the invasion of exotic species are the biggest survival crisis of TNUA frogs. For example, the nursery room of the long-legged frogs was originally in the ditch behind the library, but their climbing path was affected by the removal of the vine plants. The exotic spot-legged tree frogs also have great impact on the survival of local frogs. From this, we should think about: frogs are everywhere at the TNUA, but they are often overlooked by students. If TNUA were a school with frogs as its main character, what would it look like? Would we change the perception of campus space structure?

3. The story outline: Students anthropomorphize frogs into students of TNUA, imagining that the frogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; general lifestyle school, so that when watching the works, the viewers could project their own feelings and sympathize with frogs.

4. Conceptual sketch: The frogsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; true appearances are outlined and colored in paintings, so that the viewers can identify different frogs. The paintings are supplemented with textual explanations, so that the viewers can get a preliminary understanding of the various frogs. There were eight groups, with nineteen paintings including: TNUA Long Spot Battle, Broken Home, Mortal Battle in the Lotus Pond, Quack Quack Frog Alumni Association, Frog Study Repairing Broken Habitat, Where is the Frogemon?, The Necessity of Long-Legged Frogs, Frog, Wow! 5. Audience tests and feedback: Team Froggy believes that the content of these infographics is often the focus of tour guiding commentary. The ecological concept can bring the guide commentary more amiable to the public through a humorous way. The citizen scientific work of the frog study is passed on through the combination with art, achieving greater value. We have also received suggestions for value-added use. For instance, the infographics can be printed as postcards, or used as auxiliary teaching materials in the frog study tour guiding.

Just because something is intangible does not mean it does not exist. The frogs on earth have many unknown secrets that need to be known to the public through the media. Team Froggy utilized physical actions and written records, and this exhibition used infographics to enable the public to "read" the images. Therefore, empathy was very important while creating. From observing and imagining the life of frogs and possible culture, to transforming the concept into a plot connecting to the lives of the public, the public will have a common sense, we used our five senses to track down the frogs, starting from the Lotus Pond near TNUA Cafe, to the ditch behind the library, and then to the pond next to the Bolina Restaurant.

What environment do the frogs need? What are the characteristics of different frogs? How do we create a better frog living space? In fact, frogs and people are all living and studying at TNUA. We tried to think empathically. Through information images and dynamic images, we presented tales, sense and sensibilities of frogs in an anthropomorphic way, hopefully communicating the concept of symbiosis clearly and aesthetically.

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． Songs under the Moonlight.

Information Graphics for the Frog Survey in TNUA: Citizen Science x Local knowledge x Digital Storytelling Course Material

Image Output

Chen Chun-Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education. In his course of “Research in Digital Storytelling”, graduate students take the environmental sustainability and art participation as the theme to narrate the Frog Survey program with Taipei National University of the Arts as field. The graduate students deeply explore about methods of ecological sustainability and digital storytelling.

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Taipei National University of the Arts Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education, Chun-Wen Chen Taiwan

Chen Chun-Wen specializes in digital media design teaching, human-computer interaction and social design. He is committed to use digital technology and designing methods of thinking to integrate education and research in the field of art and humanities. He also conducts with cross-disciplinary collaborative design, new media art, digital narrative and STEAM education. Now he is focusing the research on the integration of environmental sustainability, nature and art.

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Artists Field Study We invite artists to participate in the Guandu Natural Park's multiple-year accumulated and continuous studies, including frog study, bird study, soundscape monitoring, farmland visiting, etc., to understand the study results in detail, and to connect with more participants with different backgrounds, such as ecological researchers, volunteers, local residents, etc., allowing each other to meet up, familiarize, build trust, and collaborate.

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Artist Tour

The site planning for the opening carnival of the Guandu International Nature Art Festival divides into three major themes, including the natural art movements, the story of the land, and the market of various art. "The natural art movements" is the storytelling of the work linked to Guandu by the artist. The artist also arranges DIY

The artist personally leads the public to understand the work, and

interactive activities. Additionally, people can make bamboo wind chimes, bird kites,

then tells how to interpret the theme and meaning of "It's About Time"

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natural ecology, but also introduces animals like frogs, buffalo, and migratory birds in the park. "The market of various art" is formed by more than 30 small farmers and hand-made stalls.

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Artist Tour

Beitou Storyteller

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Artist Tour

Fang-Yi Yang & Yu-Hong Peng

Artist Workshop-Chiung-Ju Chang

Ah Tu's good friend-Chiung-Ju's Small Classroom

You can directly touch the pottery, made by potter artist Chiung-Ju with Guandu refined soil. Want to know Guandu ecology? Start by feeling the soil first!

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Yipiyaya

Artist Workshop-Kuan-Ling Huang

Artist Tour

Experience Archaeology

Artist Workshop-Bo-Sen Liao

Starting from the shape of the obelisk, the workshop introduces the

If you want to know about Guandu Nature Park, you can check the

materials used in the work to respond and relate to the crossing

information online, listen to a professional guide, or explore in the

lines of birds, and allows the audience to find the birds made in the

park by yourself. However, have you ever thought of going to the

works and simple bird introductions. There is also an introduction to

park for archaeology?

natural art and on-site production, as well as to guide them to clay

You can follow the participation plan of the artist Baisen Liao's

production and demonstration. They hope to let participants think

Guandu Archaeology in the workshop and participate in the creation

about bird habits and hobbies from the perspective of birds, etc. to

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Artist Tour

Anusorn Tunyapalit Artist Workshop-Anusorn Tunyapalit

Diy Microscope

Tsuneo Sekiguchi Artist Workshop-Tsuneo Sekiguchi

Singin’ in the Woods

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How to make a microscope with a small flashlight? Follow the artist

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insects, or animals would make, such as "cuckoo, chi, ho, ho,

Use a microscope to be a little explorer in the park and draw

hiss..." and let the participants create their songs. Afterward, the

interesting pictures shot by the microscope on a transparent canvas!

artists record their songs or howling sound samples to play and then integrate into the sound of nature.

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The Crossing / Conference

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2019.11.01-11.03 1-3 November, 2019

Guandu Nature Park

Bamboo Curtain Studio

Team Guandu Nature Park

Szu-Ting HSU, Jou-Chien WANG, Tzu-Hsuan PENG, Li-Shan HUANG, Si-Yu CHEN, Winnie YEN, Ho-Kai WANG, Chun-Miao HSU, Jason HSU Bamboo Curtain Studio

Iris HUNG, Hsiao-Ling CHANG, Heidi CHEN, Sean GAU

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Forum Introduction

By Szu-Ting Hsu

Guandu Natural Park is a wetland eco-conservation site and an important promoter of the environmental education in Taiwan. If we regarded Guandu Natural Park as a stage, the performance here would be Guandu's ecosystem, as well as a variety of environmental realities interlinked with the world. With our 13-year experience in organizing the nature (installation) art festival and 8-year experience in the operation of the Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Project WET Curriculum Network, we have connected many creators in the field of arts with eco-conservation promoters to promote the concept of natural conservation.

During the promotion, we found that what we need is the energy of these different fields, such as science, art, culture, and education, colliding and having conversations in the Guandu Natural Park, as well as providing a diverse perspective for natural conservation and collaboratively considering how to encourage the public to join the environmental action. This forum combines the Annual Meeting of Taiwanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Project WET Network for Partners and the Guandu International Nature Art Festival to organize a cross-disciplinary forum linking conservation researchers, environmental educators, and artistic creative professionals.

The forum includes three topics: cross-domain experience sharing and role positioning; how to promote and call on the public participation in environmental actions through interpretation and communication tools; how to evaluate and analyze the impact of action plans on society. In the process, we invite experts and practical professionals to give keynotes and case sharing, and to discuss the above three topics daily. We would like to invite everyone to cross the boundaries together in the real life field of Guandu during 2019.11.01-11.03, tackling and finding the future to solve environmental problems through cross-disciplinary cooperation.

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Guandu Natural Park has been hosting the Guandu International Nature Art Festival since 2006. The festival has entered its 14th year. Over these past years, through the input of many outstanding artists and enthusiastic art volunteers who exerted their creativity and ingenuity to integrate various natural media with the care for the earth, the festival has created a space for dialogue between people, art and nature, and the creative process takes care not only of nature, but also of the heart of each participant.

As the relationship between human and nature has become seriously unbalanced, we hear the cracking and whimpering of the earth, and feel the urgency for the humanity to change. In 2019, we continue to re-examine and reflect on the relationship between human and nature through the eyes of artists. Through the combination of nature and art, we will convey the value of natural habitat and biodiversity, and simultaneously trigger the readersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ecological awareness, lead all living beings to recover the connection with nature. To diversify participation channels, this year's Art Volunteer Program recruits in various ways (corporate volunteers and one-day volunteers). We expect more people to feel this land with their own hands, wander through nature along with artists, weave dreams with the purest heart, and write stories about meeting nature again.

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RAY CHU

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BREEZE YANG

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FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE TEAM

Publisher

Jui-Lin CHANG

Festival Director

Chin-Ling WU, Jou-Chien WANG

Published by

Guandu Nature Park Management Office, Wild Bird Society of Taipei

Curator

Chin-Ling WU, Sheau-Shyan HANG

Editor in Chief

Li-Ping HO

Executive Editor

Sheau-Shyan HANG

Volunteer Coordinator

Chen-Yuan CHENG, Yu-Ru HSIEH

Sheau-Shyan HANG, Lin-Lin SUN, Szu-Ting HSU, Lisa CHOU, Chin-Ling WU

Art Administrator

Sheau-Shyan HANG

Publicity

Jia-He LIN

Content & Technical Support

Chang-Hsin LIN, Yuki CHANG, Jeff YEH

Visual Design

Plain Design

Film

Plain Design

Lin-Lin SUN, Szu-Ting HSU

Translator

Sheau-Shyan HANG, Wan-Kuo Translation

Photographed by

Odin WANG, Hsiu-Liang TU, Kelvin KANG, Lucas LIU, Plain Design

Designer

Plain Design

Printer

BorHwa Printing

Publishing Date

2020 5 MAY 2020, First Edition.

Price

650 NTD $650

ISBN

978-986-97837-0-5

Organizer Co-Organizer Supervisor Sponsor Film

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