"Cheng Tsung FENG's artistic practice has long been intertwined with endangered traditions, vanishing techniques, and fading cultural memories. Among them, the traditional bamboo theatre - once a vital part of temple festivals and folk celebrations across Taiwan - holds a special resonance. Built entirely with bamboo scaffolding, these temporary performance stages embodied the ingenuity of communities, combining practicality with ritual and festivity."
"Text description provided by the architects. Cheng Tsung FENG's artistic practice has long been intertwined with endangered traditions, vanishing techniques, and fading cultural memories. Among them, the traditional bamboo theatre - once a vital part of temple festivals and folk celebrations across Taiwan - holds a special resonance. Built entirely with bamboo scaffolding, these temporary performance stages embodied the ingenuity of communities, combining practicality with ritual and festivity."
Artistic practice engages endangered traditions, vanishing techniques, and fading cultural memories through creative attention to material culture. The traditional bamboo theatre served as a central feature of temple festivals and folk celebrations across Taiwan, functioning as temporary stages constructed entirely from bamboo scaffolding. These performance platforms demonstrated communal ingenuity, using simple materials to achieve structural and ceremonial needs. The bamboo stages fused practical engineering with ritual significance and festive purpose, encapsulating collective craft knowledge, social cohesion, and the embodied transmission of cultural techniques that are vulnerable to disappearance.
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