Permanent Exhibition of Nanke Archaeological Artifacts - Installation Art "Summoning the Ocean" (南科考古文物常設展-裝置藝術「召喚海洋」)

The design and production concept of this bamboo raft comes from the "Record of Drifting to Cho-pu-lan Island of Taiwan in the 3rd Year of Kansei (享和三年癸亥-漂流臺灣チョプラン島之記)". The book records a Japanese man named Bun-suke who drifted to Cho-pu-lan (near the mouth of today's Siouguluan River) in eastern Taiwan due to a shipwreck in the 3rd year of Kansei (approx. 1803). He settled in an Amis settlement, observed their bamboo boats, and after returning to Japan, dictated the boat's form to a painter. The account describes the boat as about four fathoms long and seven feet wide, with the sides and rear woven from split bamboo. The sail was also made of bamboo, and a platform was set up at the stern for cooking; it could carry two or three people for fishing. To create an educational and artistic display, the installations "Moonlight Migration" and "Drift and Wave" use natural materials to create a cross-temporal atmosphere, complementing the bamboo raft. Through the relationship between light and projection, they create a sense of flow between the raft and the space, summoning the ocean that flowed and surged within the ancestors of Nanke.
Integrated Planning and Design: Little Pure Studio / Lin Chun-yong
Moonlight Migration
Creators: Chen Shu-yen, Tuwak Tuyau
Creation Date: 2015-2016
Introduction:
Life on the East Coast often flows and surges between beauty and cruelty, between mountains and sea, ocean currents and winds. Nourished by the salt particles of the vast Pacific, resilient and fluid vitality gathers and bursts forth. Whether flying or swimming, they grow in their unique and free postures, yet together they follow an internal rhythm of the earth's body and the ancient tempo of nature, migrating towards the direction where the eastern moonlight emerges. The prototype comes from the Kavalan people of the East Coast, based on the Sanku fish trap used for catching fish and shrimp in mountain streams. It developed into bamboo and rattan woven containers, merging ancient yet modern materials like paper mulberry bark cloth and natural dyes to create internally luminous flying vessels or migrating fish; the work also features a light dialogue between the freely interwoven lines of bamboo and the lightness of bark membranes, a flight of imagination formed by bamboo tips and handmade paper.
Drift and Wave
Creator: Huang Wen-yuan
Material: Driftwood
Creation Date: 2020
Introduction:
When Taiwan's mountains encounter typhoons and heavy rain, withered wood is often washed out to sea by river currents and waves, or stranded on the shore, becoming driftwood. The bamboo rafts of the Amis people once disappeared from history, but are now reproduced at the Nanke Archaeological Museum based on Japanese historical accounts, like driftwood washed back ashore. However, a boat without waves is hindered; thus, we used driftwood seasoned by waves to create the surges for sailing, hoping Taiwan's archaeological history can break through without waves.