Shang Shui Monitum Historicum ab Yueh Mei Cheng

Opus Shang Shui Monitum Historicum a designatore Yueh Mei Cheng est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2024 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Categoria Certaminis Installatio.

AesInstallatio· 2024

Shang Shui Monitum Historicum

a Yueh Mei Cheng

Cliens: Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Corporation

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Categoria Installatio

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Colores

Designum

De Shang Shui Monitum Historicum

Shang Shui quattuor elementa designationis integrat: tabacum, canales aquarum irrigatarum, fontes sustentabiles, lucemque spei. Haec memorias Veteris Taichung-Jiushe symbolizant, historiam evolutionis centum annorum memoriasque terrae Taichung in artem miscentes. Realitate Aucta utens, visionem immersivam creat, viatores per Jiushe transeuntes historiam evolutionis Taichung intueri permittens, ita ambitum propius ad homines adducens. Undae aquarum in solo micantes qualitatem vitalem accipiunt, locum energia abundanti infundentes.

Agnitio

De Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Shang Shui Monitum Historicum victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Shang Shui Monitum Historicum rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Shang Shui Monitum Historicum necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Post Designum

Fasciculus Nuntii

Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: The interactive design delicately evokes viewers emotions, creating an additional mobile visual world within the artwork.
AR enhances the interaction between passengers and the space, transforming the MRT station from just some place people pass by into a hub where passengers can experience the past and present of Jiushe, continuing their journey with newfound satisfaction and joy.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: 700cm x 700cm x 507.5cm
Notulae: Public Space, Public Art, AR, Interaction, History, Memory
Technologia Productionis: The main material used in the artwork is mirror-finish
stainless steel sheets.
Provocatio Designandi: The mirrored stainless steel design of the "circle" in this artwork is intended to symbolize the "wholeness" brought by water and light in terms of creative concept. However, lifting, securing, and aligning it posed a significant challenge. In the end, the decision was made to cut the circular steel structure into four equal parts and design connecting arms at the seams. This installation method simultaneously addressed concerns related to aesthetics, structure, installation, and future thermal expansion and contraction.
Investigatio: During the Yongzheng era, the irrigation system was developed to divert water from the Dajia River to the Taichung area, with the Leigong River in Jiushe serving as a crucial point for water diversion. During the Japanese rule period, the Japanese introduced tobacco leaves to Taiwan, and with the help of the advanced irrigation system, tobacco exports became one of the major sources of local income in Jiushe.

In 1898, during the heyday of tobacco cultivation, the area where Jiushe Station is now located was called the "Jiushe Village " during the Japanese rule period. At that time, the area was predominantly paddy fields and tobacco fields. The preserved "tobacco barn" stands as an important historic landmark that bears witness to the flourishing development of the local tobacco industry.
Inspiratio: Shang Shui, also known as Water of Life in English, depicts the history of an irrigation channel branching off from the Dajia River, used for watering tobacco leaves in Jiushe. The MRT line now brings convenience and endless vitality to Jiushe. Shang Shui, derived from the Taiwanese expression for “most beautiful,” represents the local essence of "water and light" as symbols of the area's lifeline, conveying the notions of "sustainability" and "prosperity".
Duratio Operis: The artwork is complete and open in July 2022 and it is located in MRT Jiushe station, Beitun District, Taichung, Taiwan.
Cursus Operationis: Under the mirror stainless steel lighting plates around the center are three interactive AR installations. Viewers can interact with these AR devices and learn about the past beauty and glory of Jiushe through three scenarios.

Passengers can capture different postures and appearances of the works, and save the images to recall the old stories of Jiushe.
Membra Turmae: Integrator: Boxing Landscape Co., Ltd.
Designer: Yueh Mei Cheng
Producer: Ming Yu Hsiao, Yu Chuan Chen
Structure: Hung i Tai
AR artist: Yu Fan He
Agnitiones Imaginum: Main image: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022
Option image #1: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022
Option image #2: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022
Option image #3: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022
Option image #4: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022

Video credits: Chun Li, Yu Fan He, 2022